The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-02-22
MANCRUMMURDER
BATTLES SLEUTHS
POLICE OF NASHVILLE ARE STILL
IN THE DARK AS TO THE
PERPETRAToR
WORKING ON STOMACH
Not the Slightest Trace Has Been
Found Of the Woman Up to the
Time OF Death and Find
ing Of Body.

Nashville, Tenn, Feb While
new facts concerning the mysterious
disappearance and murder of Mrs,
Rosa Mangrum are constantly being
brought to light, officers say they are
no nearer the actual solution of the
matter than they were at first
In two months time casual recol-
lection of what was thought to be
trivial matter becomes so dimmed
that 1t is almost impossible to tell
whether Il thing occurred or not.
Had any person seen Mrs Mangrum
on the night of December ii, barely
knowing her by sight, it is doubtful
whether they would remember the
fact or not Ii seems evident that
no one who was intimate with her CT
knew her personally saw her, and If
they did they have studiously kept
quiet about il.
So much has been written about
the unfortunate woman that the mi
mors concerning her are almost end-
less The fact that not one has been
found who saw her on that night ex-
cept at the Union station gives rise
10 the belief that She was spirited
away in such a manner that no one
could see her If She got into Or was
forced into a closed carriage and the
curtains were drawn down there
would have been no Chance to see
her and she could have been carried
away or. for that matter through
the heart OF The city and no one save
the person or persons occupying the
carriage with her knowing IT,
While nothing is known. there
have been many opinions as u the
manner in which she met her unfor
tunate end. One is that she might
have been taken from the Union sta
ton and carried TO a room some
whore in the city Once in secret
place, with no prying eyes to look
on, her life could have been taken,
possibly by means of a drug admins
tered without her knowledge Again,
she could have been killed by a slight
blow on certain vital portions of her
body Japanese experts and others
make claims that they can take hui
man life and leave no marks on the
body TO indicate that violence has
been done.
Again. she could have been taken |
away from the city some distance |
There is a rumor going the rounds !
that she was taken to a room. and |
that on the morning of December
10. the day afterward. trunk check |
70 that on her trunk |
was found in a room. There is an !
other rumor that an express wagon |
drove up 10 the place after a time |
and sack was deposited in it, and |
The wagon was then driven rapidly |
away.
There Is another theory that sha |
might have been taken for some dis /
lance down the Cumberland river /
II Is rumored also that gasoline
launch was chartered here and was
aken down the river. where it re-
NAMED for several DAYS Detectives
Irwin and Dowd on last Sunday Sc
,ured a launch ami went down the
liver f.r a distance of about eight
niles and made a careful search
along the river banks in the hope OF
hiding some clue that would tell Of
Ter Disappearance. They state how
'ver. that they learned nothing of
my Importance.
Dr. Louis Leroy and ". A. Bryan
.re still engaged in conducting a
homical analysis of Mrs, Mangrum
tomach.. They have been wofking
or two weeks or more, but are not
more than half through the work.
Dr.. Leroy said that there are some
oisons which decompose shortly at F,
.r reaching The stomach. leaving no /,
race behind. Others. he said. could
p asccrIaincd a hundred years afte, /
person died
Tho murderer seems To have been
ivored by good fortune in covering
y trace of his deed. as it Is one of +
ie most banling cases known in
riminal history. and one. which. If
orked out successfully. will prove
clever piece OF detective work ,
neither the murderer did the deed
ng'e-handed leaving no room for y
4 acc1mplice 20 betray his dark So
ct, is another puzzle. 1t is posi-
e. ihs. he had an accompiice who
lad in Turing Ms Mangrum away
ON tnc Union station To- her death