Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-21
Mystery of the Murder of q
Chauffeur Grows Deeper
Each Day
PROBABLY A DOUBLE TRAGEDY
Now Believed That a Passenger In
the Automobile Was Murdered and
His Body Hidden, While That of tho
Unfortunate Driver Was Left in
che Car.

Chicago, Nov. 21.-Did the man who
killed John w. Bate, Jr, the Chicago
chauffeur, on the lonely darkened road
near the village of Lemont last Friday
night also find another victim Of his
rnurderous desire? is the question
that confronted the investigators Of
the crime yesterday. The efforts OF the
police In Chicago and the detectives
who secured the country adjacent to
the scene of the crime produced evil
tlence to support this theory.
Closer inspection of the motor car
in which the body of young Bate was
found by the Lamont farmer Saturday
morning, led the authorities at the
scene of the crime to believe yesterday
that Bate was not the only victim OF
the murderers villainy. Developments
AT the coroner's inquest, which was be-
gun early in the afternoon and con-
tinued until Nov. 80 tended to strength
en- this belief.
Is II Man or Woman?
Whether the second victim was
man or a woman there is no idea, nut
Deputy Coroner Buell. and Coroner's
Physician Springer, both incline to the
theory that the body of another victim
will be found.
The Chicago police, on the other
hand, cannot account for this theory
because of the fact that a careful trace
of the fateful auto on its wild night
trip has yielded several statements
from men who saw the motor car that
there were only two occupants, the
chauffeur and his passenger, who sat In
the rear seat.
The street car motorman, who came
upon the machine during the trip, has
informed Inspector LAWNS detectives
that there were only two persons in the
machine. both of them men, one, the
Chauffeur, and the other the passenger
The Chicago police are working on
this theory, and they put little cred
ence in the probability that two men
were Murdered, unless the motorists
were attacked by band of robbers
The theory that two persons were
murdered was strengthened yesterday
by the discovery that two bullets were
fired into the brain of the unfortunate
Bate, and that the automobile was so
covered with blood that there must
have been blood flowing from victim
in the rear seat of the machine as well
o. the front.
Blood Indicates Two Victims.
On the front seat were two pools of
blood which came from the wound of
the chauffeur, but at the rear of the
tonneau, and on the cushion at the
back, were other spots and clots OF
blood and in the corner of the rear seat
under the cushions, was a large "a
mount Of blood. 1t is held that the
two pools of blood could not have
flown from the same person, as
wounded man in the front seat could
not have bled in such manner that
1t would be found on the rear Of the
car.
The mystery of the affair remains as
deep and the problem as blank to the
authorities as on Saturday morning,
when the report reached Chicago that
the machine and dead chauffeur, with
q bullet hole in the back Of his head,
had been found in the Archer road in
a lonely spot two miles southeast OF
I4emont. All day yesterday searching
parties beat thru the woods and mar
shes along Archer road from the last
pOlIit ISdCASO NY LllC ouSoAiiOoAAS' CIV
cording to the common belief, to- Sag
Bridge, where the first trace of the wild
nights ride was finally secured. 1t
was a search for the body Of the sec
ond murdered person.
Think Body Is Hidden.
The theory of the police and resi-
dents was that the body must have
been carried to the roadside or woods
along the route taken from the home
of John Seller, the first person who
states that he is absolutely sure he saw
three persons in the car, to the home
of Dennis Conner, where the party
was indistinctly seen half hour later,
some minutes after midnight of Friday.
After two days Of investigation the
police We're absolutely at sea as to a
motive of the killing of Bate by the
passenger. Not even the most mag
NATIVE could advance theory that
would hold water until the unique evil
dences of a double murder We're dis
covered.
100000 FIRE IN CINCINNATI.