The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-25
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! but the fact that such a correspond
1 ence had been carried on was well es-
tablished. Her statement to REESE
/ that she was going 10 Kansas to sell
a farm was clearly a subterfuge to
escape unsuspected from the man
, whom she professed 10 love 50 deeply
to go 10 another admiTer.
She left Wauks sha still protesting
the liveliest affection for Reise and
went to Newton. Kan, sending TO her
| Wisconsin lover from several points en-
route messages of undying love. Both
amley had evidently been advised as
10 the exact time of her arrival, for
he met her at the train and later took
her to his ranch undsr the name OF
Bertha Bothamley. his sister.
From her jOurneyings Of thousands
| OF miles subsequent TO her marriage
with Shannon Bailey there seemed to
be nothing more obtaiuable in the form
4 or evidence against Nellie Bailey, or
/ Nellie REESE, than l have related. Any
addltlonal evidence must be obtained
/ IN Kansas near the scene of the Both
amley crime. The sending by her from
skeleton ranch of the Sarah A Laws
/ deed to the Bothamley ranch should
/ prove a Valuab BILE bit of infOrma ton II
the mystery of the identity of Sarah
Laws could be solved. The key 10 this
puzzle finally was found in Wichita
J woman had started to Texas they ap-
/ peared in the Office of a lawyer in that
/ city and solicited his services in the
drawing of a deed to the $40 acres of
| land in question. To this lawyer the
| woman was introduced by Bothamiey
as his wife, Bertha l. BothamIey. and
/ they desired to convey the ranch prop
/ eTty to one Sarah y Laws" The
/ instrument was drawn. the fee paid
7 and the pair departed, leaving no sus-
| piciOn that either was any other than
/ as represented In this transaction the
/ grantee did not put in an appearance.
/ but there was nothing in this cfrcurn-
I stance to arouse suspicion
/ knowledge of this visit to the lawyer
enabled me to see what the plan might
/ have been. Further investigation re-
veaIed the fact that within an hour
/ from the time BOthamIey and the
woman had left the Office where the
I deed was drawn in favor of Sarah
! Laws" they had visited the Office Of
another lawyer and asked him to draw
a deed to the same land. Sarah A.
Laws" being the name given as the
grantor and Bertha L. BothamIey as
/ the name of the granted. In the Office
of this lawyer Bothamley introduced
the woman as Sarah A Laws This
was the deed that was afterward sent
! by the woman from Skeleton ranch to
the clerk OF Harvey county for record,
the character of Sarah A. Laws hav-
ing been purely fictitious.
This was the most convincing cir
CumstantiaI evidence developed. going
| to show that the flight TO Texas had
been planned weeks and possibly
months prior to the start and that
Bothanley had fallen 50 completely uT1-
der the spell of the woman that he had
I been induced by her to convey his
ranch to her, the roundabout method
I described being used for the purpose
of fOTestalling the comment direct
conveyance undoubtedly would have
caused.
With the facts as here related in my
| possession. 7 conferred with Colonel
HallOwell and we took an inventory of
the evidence in our possss siop- OF it's
ciTcumstantiaI character there was. Of
course. no doubt The outline of the
facts 7 have related was strengthened
by a search of the personal effects be
longing to BOthamley at the time of
his death. and of the contents of the
car in which he died. In box car.
besides a large quantity of jewelry
which had belonged to the woman with
whom BOthamlsy had come to Amer
/ lea, was found bottle of morphine 7
! tried to establish the identity of the
! purchaser Of the drug. but was un-
successful, for. after locating the drug
giSt who sold IL. I found him unable to
recollect the person who had bought il.
| The facilities for the examination and
examination Of bodies on the frontier
were not such as to make an ANALYSIS
Of the BOthamloy stomach feasible and
tho part played by the drug in the
! death of the EuSiishman. IL any. was
left in doubt
When We had finished taking stock
of our evidence Colonel Hallowell
known Throughout Kansas as Prince
Hal" and l decided that we could GO