Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-16
STORY No. 2
The BotE1anIev
MurderMystery
Being an Account of the Efforts
Made by This Government to Bring
to Justice the Murderer of Clement
L. Bothamley, an Englishman Killed
In Kansas.
BY CAPTAIN PATRICK D. TYRRELL
BY CAPTAIN PATRICK D. TYRRELL

Dy Ia lain fhiklCh u. 1hhLLk ]
Copyright. 1905. by Marion G. ScheitEn)
(ContinueO.
NO Difficulty was experienced in find
ing that Mrs. Bailey had stopped with
one aunt for two days, leaving to so
ito another aunt, with whom she had
spent six weeks. 1t required sor& eau
tious inquiry, however, to devel:& the
fact that Nellie Bailey had brYlght
with her to Elgin her husbands jew
telry, among it the watch formerly car
ried by him and bearing his name
il reasoned that if Shannon Bailey had
been alive it was altogether improb-
able that his wife would be in possess
sion of the watch, especially as she had
reliable timepiece Of her own. Her
possession of other trinkets formerly
used by her husband gave additional
color to the theory that Bailey was
dead.
Then this fact was learned: The
aunt with whom she was visiting had
daughter about Mrs Bailey's age,
and one day the two had gone fish
ing. When Mrs. Bailey left the house
she took package from the bosom Of
strict instructions to take good care
Of it. Curiosity on the part of the
aunt prompted her to examined the
packet, which contained several thou
sand dollars in bills Of large denomina-
ton. In Elgin Mrs. Bailey said her
husband was in California, and l could
find no trace of his having been in FL
gin, as his wife claimed in her letter
to her friend in De Smet.
In the course of Mrs. Bailey's visit
to Elgin there were many minor
events, all pointing in the same direc-
ton, but with which shall not encum-
Der this narrative. Ever restless, the
woman went from Elgin to Waukesha,
Wis, where she at once became &C
Quainted with Robert REESE, the 2S-
year-old son Of the proprietor Of the
leading hotel Of that place. The young
man apparently fell prey to the wom-
ans wiles without even a pretense Of
resistance, and in a few days was Sc
curely chained to the wheel of her
chariot The sudden and ardent at
tachment between the two became a
matter of general knowledge and COM
ment, and the parents of the young
man evinced the bitterest opposition to
it. hut without avail
Young REESE announced that he was
10 cto low IN, 1r,hi oh ho
fair Nellie was to assume the star role.
After leaving Dakota Mrs. Bailey had
travelled under her right name, de-
claring in both Elgin and Waukesha
that her husband was alive. Her in
fatuation for young REESE, however,
seemed to be as sincere an affair as it
was in her nature to harbOr, enough
so, at least, to prompt her to take the
initiative and entice her lover into
marriage. REESE, who was much the
weaker character Of the two, feebly
protested against being made the in
strument through which the crime of
bigamy, as he supposed, was to be
committed by hrs inamorata, but his
protests were silenced by her vehe-
ment and oft-repeated assurances that
Shannon would never appear to both
er .nem.' On this point she was very
positive.
1t is not likely that REESE had any
conception of the full significance OF
these words. Mrs. Bailey insisted or
the marriage being kept secret unit
legal separation" from Baney coult
be brought about REESE finally agreed
and the marriage took place withou
further delay. At Waukesha, as a
Elgin, Mrs. Bailey exhibited the watcl
formerly worn by her husband, heise
among others, having seen it.
The marriage at Waukesha hat
placed the woman in this position: Il
Bailey were alive she was a bigamist
and if he were dead she was undoubt,
eddy his murdereS5. Her vigorous
assurances to REESE that there was nc
danger of bailey ever bothering then
had for me, of course, a grewsome
meaning. Strange as it may seem tt
those uninitiated in the ways of sucl
as Nellie Bailey, l finally believed hel
to be a woman who would COMM
the greater crime of murder rathe
than place herself In her husband
power by committing the lesser crim
of bigamy. At any rate, her positive
statements to REESE that Bailey woul,
never bother them was in my opinion
an important link IN long chain o
circumstantial evidence.
Almost Immediately after her mar
riage-real or mock-to REESE, Mrs
Bailey said she had to make a trip t
Kansas to sell a farm she owned Their
and would then come back to Refs
with $4,000; and, in connection wit
this pretense, l succeeded in estab
fishing fact Of the utmost 1mpor
tance-that she had been receiving let
ters from Clement L. Bothamley dun
Ing her stay in Wisconsin. 1t was nc
my good fortune to secure any of thes
letters, but the fact that such CORE
anoadence had been carried on wa