The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-07
RtVo|dng Crime Brought to
 Light in Chicago
MAN IS M|LLIONAIRE'S SON
Was Under Influence of Morphine When Found By Neighbors-Wife Had Gone Shopping
 With Friends.

Chicago, October 6.-Dr. Oliver B. Hart. young physician residing in the suburb of Rogers Park, is in the custody of the police pending further investigation of the death of Irene Knowkow 10 years of age. which occurred yesterday In the residence of the physician. It is the opin- ion of the police that a charge of mur- der will be lodged against Dr. Hart and 1 that he will have much trouble to escape conviction.
 | The girl died in a bedroom of the Hart | residence in which she and the physician 1 had been locked for several hours. It | is the opinion of the authorities, based on l the facts disclosed at the inquest held l today, that the girl was maltreated, and l then poisoned in an attempt to conceal | the crime.
 | After 1t was impossible for the child l to recover, the physician swallowed morphine and lay in an unconscious con- dtion all of last night and during the greater part of today. Late this afternoon 1 he partially recovered and was brought to the city and locked up in the East Chicago avenue police station.
 Desired as Companion for Wife. | 1 from the Illinois Industrial Home for l Girls by Dr. Hart and his wife, who de- | sired a girl who could serve in a meas ure as companion for Mrs. Hart, who Is | but F years of age, and at the same time do light work about the house. Yester- day two sisters of Irene klowkow called at the Hart residence and In company with Mrs. Hart went on a shopping ex- I petition to the city. Irene complained of l a headache and was left alone in the house with the physician. What happen l ed in the house Is not known exactly, l but the first intimation that anything was wrong was a telephone message sent by l Dr. Hart to- q neighbor.- Mrs. Richarc Cortis Dr. Hart told Mrs. Cortis to sum | mon help at once, as he was dying. Mrs. l Cortis sent word to a physician ana then ran over to the Hart residence. she let her little daughter climb through | cellar window and unbolt the front door so that she could get into the house. l After entering she called to pr. Hart and he. shouted from the floor above:
 Here I am, you will have to break 1 through another door
 Broke Open the Door.
 Mrs Cortis threw her weight against | the bedroom door and broke II open. Inc l klowkow girl was lying on the ped par | tially dressed her hair dtsarranged, anu | much of 1t torn from her head and the room showed evidences of desperate struggle. The girl was unconscious ana evidently dying, and Dr. Hart informed | Mrs. Cortis that she ad swallowed nor phine pills after he had given her some medicine.
 When the physician, pr. Hulstrom, went | to work over the body of the girl pr. | Hart went into an adjoining room and | swallowed a large quantity or morphine. | The efforts of Hulstrom to revive the giri were unavailing, and she died In a snort time. Dr. Hart was given some restora- lives and Dr. Hustrom labored over nm for several hours before being convinced that he would ultimately recover. detail of police officers were placed at pr. Hart's bedside, and he was not placed under arrest until this evening.
 Son of St. Louis Millionaire.
 pr Hart has resided In Chicago but a short time and is son of a millionaire residing in St. Louis. who has sent him
 regularly an allowance Of money whicn has supported him and his wife, as he had no practice in his profession. Mrs. Hart
 was before her marriage Vera Kreiges- mann the daughter of an official In the St. Louis postoffice. They were married
 when Mrs. Hart was but 16 years of age.
 She testified today at the coroners in- quest that she left Irene Klowkow and
 her husband alone in the house but de- | clared that she believes him innocent of any wrong doing and that in her opinion | the statement of the doctor that the girl ate the morphine tablets by mistake Is the truth.
 Sticks to His Story.
 Police Inspector Wheeler subjected Dr. l Hart to an exhaustive examination to- | night in the effort to secure from him statement of the occurrence fin the house this afternoon but the physician refused to alter the story he had previously told. | He insisted throughout that the girl was | not murdered; that he did not misuse her. | and that he did not attempt to commit suicide. He declared repeatedly that the girl had taken the poison by mistake and said that his excitement was caused by the fear that he might be accused of her 1 death After finding that the girl was l dead, he declared that he took an injec- l ton of morphine to quiet his nerves and | took an overdose.
 l Dr. Lewke, the coroner's physician who | examined the body of the girl. declared 1 tonight that there was not the slightest | doubt that she had been treated in a re- | volting manner