The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-17
ARRESTED FOR MURDER
Topeka Woman Taken to Missouri to
Answer to Old Charge.

Anna Robbins. who lives with her
husband near Calhoun Bluffs, was ar
rested last night by a force sent out
from the sheriff's office, charged with
being an accessory to the murder of
Carl Miller committed near Holden,
Mo, something like three years ago,
and Will be taken to Warrensburg. Mo,
today.
The story is rather a strange one and
the authorities in this city feel that
there is spite work in the arrest of the
woman. Three years ago Robert Sass
man. the man who is under arrest for
the murder of Carl Miller, an old man
whose body was found near Holden. Mo.
in an unused well. started for Kansas
TO the harvest fields, accompanied by
Mrs. Robbins then an unmarried wo-
man.
Sassman was a married man and
left his home in ST. Louis with Mrs.
Robbins with the aVoWed intention OF
coming to Kansas and securing a di-
vorce and then marrying her. They
Travelled Kansasward in an old rickety
wagon drawn by a horse of an equally
distant vintage. When near Warrens-
burg they met Carl Miller. the victim,
an old decrepit man who was travelling
westward to the wheat fields of Kan
sas.
They Travelled along together and
when night time came they camped to-
gether and became companions for the
journey which was 10 end in the death
of the old man before they arrived in
sight of the promised land. The story
runs that they had been on their wav
but short time when Sassman- fened
the old man with a blow from neck
yoke and finished the job by beating
him into insensibility and throwing the
body in the we'll
He was afraid from the moment that
ne killed Miller that the woman with
MIN would inform the officers at the
first opportunity and he beat and
choked her and threatened her life If
she ever told of the occurrence They
crossed the Missouri line and finally
arrived at topeka, where they stopped
for a number of days, but Sassman
becoming frightened. deserted the wo-
man. who made her way back to War
rensDurg, where she notified the au-
thorities of the crime and an investi-
CATION revealed the truthfulness" of her
story.
Sassman returned to Kansas City
and married, and afterwards moved to
St Louis with his bride and was living
there when the body of the victim was
FOUND IN the well where Mrs Robbins !
said that it had been secreted Hear !
ing OF the finding of the body and fear I
Ing dissection, he fed to Chicago where I
he ren7ained in hiding until apprehend- /
ed by Sheriff Geer, where he was liv- |
ing under the name of Frank Foster
He was arrested and admitted that /
he knew Of the crime but said that it /
travelling with him. The records of the /
probate court of this county showed /
that she had been married by Probate I
Judge Hayden and Sheriff Lucas has I
been at work on the case since that /
time and finally located her on the /
farm where she was arrested last night /
But little more is known of the I
crime here but they are inclined to be-
lieve the story of the woman, who since /
her marriage and residence in this /
county has lived an exemplary life.
Ihey feel that the man Sa ssrnan com
mitted the crime just as narrated by /
the woman and that he is attempting |
to drag her into the case believing that +
she gave the Information which led to
his arrest.
The husband of Mrs. Robbins is en-
ployed by the Stewart-Peck Sand COM
pany in this city and it is said that they
have arranged for her bond and that /
she viii be released AMI returned to
kansas as soon as arrangements can
be made with the Missouri authorities.