Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-21
EVANSVILLE CASE
STILL UNSOL WE'D
FATHER GOEBEL BELIEVES THAT
THREE WOMEN WERE KILLED
BY SOME CRAZY LOON"
TWO DETECTIVES ENGAGED.
Chicago Sleuths Declare That Seven Per
sons Have Been Attacked by
the Same Person.
.EoUsE OF THE HUNDRED DOORS"

! JANESN LILLE, VS., eb. Ill Spe-
( ciaI. Whether Mrs. Martha Anderson
. deliberately lay down on her cot ard
I ,iashcd her throat with a razor or wheth-
~ She was the third victim Of the I'M
/ known assailant Of GAINESVILLE women
remains to be solved.
Coming as it does after the Clayton
and Malone mysteries, the Anderson
voman's death looks suspicious. Father
/ ". y. GOebel, the Catholic priest VIII"
/ is trying to solve the Malone mystery,
with the aid Of detectives, declares that
some crazy loon was responsible for all
three Deaths some degenerate or Jack
/ the Stranglcr, whose work battles detec-
! tion"
I Mrs. Martha Anderson was last seen
( alive Wednesday evening about o'clock
by her son and daughter. who walked
part way home with her from her place
Of work, in the Empire hotel They say
she appeared to be happy when they left
! her Il block from her room.
Her room was in a strange ram
shacllle old building that stands on The
west side Of River street, just north of
the line Of the railway viaduct. 1t
might be called the blouse of the Hun
dred Doors" so many are to be found.
At least four of these opened into the
small room where the woman lived
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Link. Salvation
/ Army workers, live down stairs.
Is a Lonely Spot.
! The vicinity is deserted at night, few
| caring to pass there. 1t is a short
! distance from the Fourth avenue bridge
where Mrs. Burke, the Weber girl and
two others were attacked by the mystic
riOus man whose apparent actions are
unexDlainable.
Mrs. Anderson kept house in a single
room Employed as a dish washer at
! the Empire hotel. she often spent hours
in the evening splitting wood or washing
clothes The Links had become used to
the sounds which often kept ND until
late at night However, last Wednes-
day night there was a variation which
so alarmed Mr.. Link that he FASTENED
TO seek aid from switch tender, whose
! hut was near by.
According to Mr. Link he was aroused
| from a light slumber by continual rap
pings on what seemed to be the second
story door of Mrs. Anderson's room.
| Sounds Of footsteps crossing the room
was followed almost Immediately by a
crash of broken glass and a smothered
shrek.
Hears Talking in Room.
| Thoroughly awake. Mr.. Link and his
wife listened to what seemed to be talk
ing, followed suddenly by scuff1ing
noise and then another shrek.
After Fastening from his home for aid.
! Link and the switchtender returned, but
did not enter the apartments. Leaving
! the railway man on guard, Link started
! for the police station three blocks away
and returned with Officer Morrissey.
| Their attention was first attracted by
the condition of the screen door which
was partly demolished as though some
one had torn the netting from it to gain
access to the inner door in which two
Danes of glass were broken. STRANGE
| TO say. however. this glass appeared TO
! have been broken from the inside. The
! body of the woman was discovered "
ing partially dressed. on a cot with the
| head hanging down over the side. the
| throat cut from ear to ear.
Pools Of blood We're on the bed and
! beside the woman was found an old
| fashioned razor covered with blood A
! long handled axe lay near by.
Not Dead When Found.
The woman was not dead when dis
| covered, but passed away within a few
seconds without moving more than an
! evelid
| Some years ago Mrs Anderson was
! confined in an insane asylum for a long
! period but was DISCHARGED as cured and
! since then. except for rare intervals when
!
| been apparently sane. Her son. George
| Anderson. and her daughter. Mrs. Ralrh
Baldwin. believe she did not kill herself
| The razor which was found is one Of
| Swedish make. It had been ground
| down in such a manner that young An
| derson doubts that it is the one which
| his mother used to cut her corns with
Its make is peculiar. and II is considered
an important piece of evidence
Detectives Are Busy.
For three weeks past two detectives
| have been investigating the Malone and
| Clayton deaths and today they turned
! their attention to the new mystery. Both
believe that the three deaths are the
work of one mysterious man whose iden-
| tity has not been made known. They
| have discovered that seven women have
! been attacked in the same manner by a
| person answering the same description
| within the last six months and are keep
! ing close watch of the places where he
! IS known to have been seen.