Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-04-29
DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED IN
RARDENHEIER CASE.
DETECTIVES ARE AT WORK
Gather Evidence in Madison and
Make Examination of Gays Woods
in Which Crime Was Committed
Wife and Daughter of Dead Jew
eier Make Trip to Chicago.
Madison, April 26.


heier murder case are expected
within the next few days. Chicago
detectives have been in the city for
the past four or five days gathering
information and making a thorough
examination of Gays woods in Bloom
ing Grove, in which Bardenheier was
killed. They made such progress that
one of them is said to have remarked
Wednesday that the guilty parties
would be behind the bars within %
hours.
Mrs. Bardeneheier and her daugh-
ter, Miss Clara, went to Chicago
early yesterday morning and returned
last evening. 1t was said last night
that they were summoned to the
windy city at midnight Thursday,
the presumption being that they were
either called in to identify suspects
or that more information was wanted
from them When asked last night
if it was true that the murderers or
her husband had been captured or
Mrs. Bardenheier replied
q don't know anything about it.
1t is all strange to me-
The fact that Mrs. Bardenheier
closed up her jewelry store or East
Wilson street gave rise to the pre-
sumption that she went to Chicago
in connection with the case. Accord
ing to neighbors she has gone to Chi
cago with her daughter several times
before, locking up her place of bust
ness. They believed that Mrs. Bar
denheier went to the windy city to
purchase new stock for the store.
Detectives Gather Evidence.
1t is understood that the detectives
called on Mrs. Bardenheier while in
the city and obtained from her all
the information they could get. 1t is
also said that they were accompanied
to Gays woods by George r. Angell
of this city Besides making an ex-
animation of the woods they called on
several farmers in the vicinity of the
woods. They made a number of in
quiries in regard to the rig in which
Bardenheier is said to have been
seen before he was murdered.
Worked independently.
The detectives did not call on the
local police for assistance, in fact
they did not even call at the station
One report last night was to the eff
fect that they were engaged by Mrs.
4iardenheier. If they apprehend the
guilty parties they will receive the
$500 reward. $500 of which was or
fered by Governor Davidson in behalf
of the state. The other $500 was or
fered by John P. Halbach, who was
then sheriff
Brief Review of the Case.
Bardenheier was murdered July
23 last year and his body was not
found until a week later. 1t was
one of the most coldblooded and :nys.
terious murders ever committed in
Dane county. July 81 a man, who
jewelry store and asked Bardenhe1er
co come to his farm to fix a large
family clock. On the morning of the
23rd., which was on Monday, Bar
denheier took his tools and started
east on a street car He had been
told by the supposed farmer that a
buggy would be in waiting for him
that a boy would drive him to the
farm. Instead of a boy, however IT.
is believed that Bardenheier was met
by one of the murderers and taken to
the Gay woods, where accomplices
had waited for the jeweler. Shortly
after noon on the same day the sup
posed farmer came to the Barden-
heier store and told Mrs. BardenheIer
that he had communicated with his
family over the telephone and that
he was informed that the boy ana
Bardenneier had an accident with
he rig. He convinced Mrs Bardep,
heier, however. that no one was IL.
jured and that her husband and the
boy cut across a field to his farm
which was only half hours walk
from the end of the car line He
further Informed Mrs. Bardenheler
that her husband needed some Wire
for the. clock. He left the store and
came back a few minutes later for
the wire. At in the afternoon he
came back again and said that ne