Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-08

before her rarcuts rs one risen from the
grave.
Miss War; explained shc had attended
"A thonter Saturday evening. mad visited At
a friends house and. missing The last car
remained over nisht with acr friend.
Just how Mr. Ward Identified the body
az Miss RIntleiha~ ss being his dauEh-
ter was hard for ~ corbner and police
90 understand inssmuch ~ Miss Rummel-
hait bore M resemblance 40 Miss Ward
Il was explained that The dishgurati"n
u Miss Rummelhsrt and Mr.. Wards state
VI mind may hay. accounted ion the
wrong Identification.
rdentIncd ny Two MOnien.
aisS Rnn,moihsrts body was identified
at o'cioek Yesterday by Miss Marie Hoi-
noss of tac Scandinavian home and Miss
BEETLE anderson. 'wh0 were tod los oscar
Olsen and John l.. l..ndell. who visited the
moreue out OF curiosity. that they thought
rhs body there was that of Miss Rummel-
hafH Mis- Holiness HAD visited tae
niorSue earlier IN the afternoon ana at
that time declared she could not make an
identification During the early hours of
~ The Scandinavian home visited the hos.
pitai At the request OF the police, 20 den
t6y(the woman. the home being in close
vicinity Of the scene OF the murder. The
young women did not at the time recog
nize Miss Rummelhart.
Miss Rummelhsrt lived at the scandi-
nsyIsn nome one year. She was we'll
spoken of and said to have had no male
companions known to the occupants Of the
home II was said Il was not unusual
Tor her to spend a night at her brothers
home. go no surprise was occssioned Satur-
day night when she did not return to her
room.
Gruesome Relic OF Carnival.
The stick with which Miss Rummelhart
evidently was struck with over the tern
PIE and on other parts OF the head was
secured from a pile of old lumber at
Twenty-hfth and Farnam streets, where
the Ak-Sar- Ben Industrial parade floats
were made and just across the street from
Miss Anderson's home. where Miss Rum
meihart was visiting IN the evening. THAT
the asseilaut was watching the movements
OF Miss Rummelbsrt is a conjecture Of
fered as being quite plausible
The stick in question is three feet long
aud two inches vide and nearly an inch
thick. The stick was broken from a sec
tlon found AT Twenty-ffth and Farnam
streets the broken ends hitting exactly into
each other. Chief Donahue made this
discovery.
. on January 4, John Kelly fatally stabbed
his companion, John Doyle. across the
street fror1 where Miss Rummelhart was
killed. Kelly and Doyle were graders
and quarreled over the division of earn
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Identification DihBcuI.
The Identification OF the body was the
matter Of greatest concern and it was
finally brought about by the curiosity OF
two young men. Oscar Olsen and John L.
I.indell. who room at the Scandina via n
Young womens Christian association. Oh
sen and Lindell are roommstes i1 the dorm
TORY OF the sssoci4ppn. Reading an ac-
count Of the murderV The Bee, lolsen sug-
gested that they go together 70 the cor
oners office and view the body
They left their home about q D. m Sun
day and after viewing the body in the
morgue Olsen said to his compa MON. THAT
looks like Miss Rummelhart, who lives in
the dormitory." IindeU disagreed with
him. however, so in order fully to satisfy
himself Olsen took a second careful look
at the body, remaining In the room for over
ten minutes. and then was sure IL was the
body Of Miss Rummelhart and immedi-
ateiy returned to the association and in
formed tho president. Maria Holiness. of
his discovery. Olsen failed 20 inform any
one ct the coroners Office of his ldenti1ca-
ton, leaving the matter in abeyance for
fully an hour longer,
Mas Holiness Is Alarmed.
Miss Holiness said she hardly thought II
possible the body was that OF Miss Rum
melhart but went to the dead woman's
room and found II was empty and had not
been occupied the previous night This
alarmed her and she telephohed TO Bette
Anderson. who lives at Twenty-hfth and
Farnam streets and IL the most intimate
friend Of Miss Rummelhart. Miss Ander-
son told Miss Holiness Miss Rummelhart
left her home about 10 O'Clock Saturday
evening and that she had not seen her
since
Miss Holiness then went 10 the morgue
and viewed the body. but was not positive
In her Identification, so she called on Miss
Anderson, and both women returned to
the coroner's ONCE. where Mics Anderson
positively Identified the body as that Of her
friend. Both she and Miss Holiness re-
nained at the coroner's ONCE to await the