Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-02-11

! At Luc Ol me dliE5
from l. street, between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth street is the house O
lCapt Cook. Its rear end is not NOR
than fifteen feet from the cab shed
Tie rear of Mrs. Dunn's house, to tn
north, is about thirty feet from tn
the shed. In window in the rear o
Capt. Cooks house overlooking tn
alley sat Mrs. Cook sewing at the tim,
the murder is supposed to have beef
committed. Mrs. Dunn was on he
back porch at the same time directing
men who were pumping out her cellar
and at rear window of the house up
stairs sat her daughter writing letters
None of them heard an outcry.
The Murder.
| IL is the theory of the detectives EN-
ployed in the case that the man with
the red mustache was an old friend OF
Miss Schafer, and that when he
greeted her at the corner of Four
Iteenth street she permitted him to
escort her home. She knew MIN so
well that she did not fear him. She
walked with him to the corner of
Fourteenth and NJ streets, and find
ing the way too muddy for further
progress turned back to l..
According to the best analysis OF
the crime, it probably occurred in this
manner:
The man with the red mustache had
undoubtedly made some proposal to
the girl which caused a violent con-
troversy. They walked side by side
TO the alley entrance. There the man
stopped and faced her. He repeated
his demands and was again repulsed
| In Spasm of sudden anger he threw
his left arm around her and struck her
on the forehead. In the hollow of his
hand he carried a three-cOrnered piece
of brick-about an eighth of an inch
of an ordinary vitrified paving brick
weighing eight ounces. This blow
knocked her senseless and fracture.
her skull. Realizing the enormity Of
his Offense, he struck her again an
again with the brick, at the same
time half dragging half carrying her
into the alley and out of the way of
the street lights. At the moment
when the mans arm embraced her she
must have realized her danger and
clutched at his face instinctively. In
doing this she scratched from his
head a few hairs, which were found
in the death clutch of her left hand.
Her right arm flew out and her UNI
brella was thrown over the fence to
the right Her hairDins fell from her
head and she dropped her gloves, She
lay a dead weight in the murderer's
arms. AMI he carried her to the gate
Of Capt. Cooks shed, which he kicked
open, and dragged her within.
A remarkable thing is the fact that
the man was so powerful that with a
short-arm blow and armed only with
small piece of brick he could have
crushed the girls skull in four places.
The piece of brick, blooI-soaked, was
found beside the door of the cab shed.
AT 8 o'clock that night Mrs. Elliott.
who lived a block from the alley en-.
trance, heard piercing shrek.
Other persons in the neighborhood
heard the shrek also. Inquiry show.
ed, however that small boy in the
threatened with chas-
tisement, had run out of the house
and had been dragged back
to the slipper.
Hunting Clues.
Detective John }. ralph and Capt.
Haager were sent to Bedford anu
started to solve the mystery. The
first theory exploded was that the
crime was the work Of a negro. Every
negro in the town was made to give
an account of himself. For time
suspicion stronSiJ .S.ltei to youlS
society man of the town who was
known to have been attentive to Miss
Schafer, and who, 1t was thought, had
a grievance against her. He proved a
complete alihi, showing that on that
night and at the hour of the murder
he was being escorted to a leap-year
party by young woman.
The thecry that Miss Schafer was
the wet m of mistaken identity was
Thoroughly examined and proved I'M
tennhl>, In the house of Mrs. John.
son Lived a servant who bore re,
markable resemblance to her in figure
only, She had been divorced from
her husband. who. II was said, hal
Threatened her. This story was cx,
ploded
The Theory.
Miss senator came to Bedford las
september TO take the position a
teacher of Latin in the high schCcl
She mad graduated successfully frCn
the high school at Elkhart, the norma
school at Tcrre Haute AMI De Paw
university AT Greencastle She hal
also STUDIED for a short time in Chi
caSo. In Bedford she had beer
S'Aguarly frank with her friends will
, regard to her correspondents. T,
Miss Love, fellow teacher. who wa
also her roommate, ami had read al
. her letters and she discussed with he
, her men acquaintance. There wa
one correspondent. however. concern
Ing whose letters she never talked
, About week back Miss Schafer re