The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-16
PECULIAR FRAUD
GRAVE ROBBED AND CORPSE pY.
NAMiTED At VICTOR.
TO GET INSURANCE MONEY
John }. McEaehern, Supposed to
Have Been Killed, Arrested To
oether With Three Other Men
Two Women implicated,

Two Women Implicated.
Denver.-A Republican special from.
Victor and Cripple Creek tell the fol-
lowing story:
Because Marshal Naylor had a
"hunch'' when the supposed body of
John ]. McEachern was blow up in
the Three Jacks tunnel on the morn
ing of January 2Gth. McEachern
and his partner, John Earley, Frank
Naudlin and Lutte kellogg are under
arrest here charged with robbing the
grave OF Robert Speed, dynamiting
the body and attempting to defraud in
surance companies out of sums aggre-
eating $1,000 by passing off the man
gled remains as those of McEachern.
McEachern's widow" and her SIS
ter, Mrs. Frank Naudlin, are under ar
rest at Colorado Springs, charged with
being accessory TO the alleged con-
spiracy.
No time will be lost in getting to
trial John J. McEachern. Jack Varley.
Frank Naudlin and Kellogg, arrested
here, charged with being in a plot to
rob a life insurance company. A di-
with obtaining money under false pre-
lenses will be issued, perhaps along
with other charges of ii more serious
character
When the explosion tore a human
body to fragments in the Three Jacks
tunnel, two weeks ago, where Nc
Eachern and Varley were leasing,
Marshal Naylor became suspicious
Ia
learned that McEachern had taken
out a policy ninety days previous in Il
! life insurance company for 900, in
the Modern Woodmen for 81 900 and
in the A. o. o.. w. for $1,000, and had
tried to get $4,000 in another company
| which refused him.
Naylor found that the grave of Rob-
ert Speed. who died from an accident
and was buried the day before the ex-
| prosion. had been robbed and that a
I piece Of scalp with brown hair on 1t,
resembling Speeds, was among the
supposed remains of McIlachern, who
had red hair. The marshal secured a
confession from a man who said he
! was paid $50 by Mrs. McEac chern after
she received $1,000 of the insurance
money
The officers found McEachcrn hid
ing in tie home of his brOther-in-law,
Frank Naudlin. McEachern was ar
rested after a gun fight.
| McEachern came here from Lead
vile last September
One insurance company has paid
| Mrs. McEachern $1,000, but the other
| insurance has not been settled.
cEachGru is suspected of being a
| Itr I. cS.i irS S.,lrir, Il
| was told that he collected a large
sum Of money from another company
, years ago. feisning death in coffin
for three days He and Jack Narley.
his partner. are held without bail.
William Natdlm was released on S.
geo bail.
Lutte Kellogg, a local puSilst, who is
said to have tipped off The case to
Marshal Naylor, was arrested Satur-
day on a charge of defrauding the in
surance company ont of $50. Kellogg
was to have received $1,000 as his
share OF the 81 900 for which McEach-
ern was insured, but got cold feet be-
fore the night on which the corpse
was to have been stolen.
After Witnessing the funeral and
learning of the $4,000 being paid to
the supposed widow. he wanted a
share. When rebuifed. he told the
story to Naylor. He was arrested be-
cause, it is claimed, that he received
$50 from Mrs. McEachern as part pay
ment of the total Of 81 600 he was to
have received.
1t is believed that McEachern wit
messed his own funeral procession
from the windows of his brother-iu-
laws house, where he was hiding.
Jack Narley denies all knowledge OF
conspiracy. He says he went to build
Il fire ulsidc of the tunnel at the Sug-
gcstiOn Of McEachCrn, the latter say
ing he would remain in the tunnel and
prepare the fuse. After The explosion
he says he reported to the coroner. A
man VINO looked out of a cabin near
by Immediately after the explosion
says Narley merely glanced into the
tunnel. apparently. he believed. TO see
whether the corpse, und.r which for.
ty-fiVc pounds Of powder had been
placed. was properly scattered.
Friends o! Robert Speed arc in.
cSnscd by the use made of his corpse.
Talk OF lynching is heard, but Nc.
Eachern is carefully guarded in the
county Jail here.