The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-09-08
.PlTIABLE EXHIBIT OF
HUMAN BRUTALITY
Desperate Effort TO Solve
Mystery Of MaybHIlG
MIlIman'S Murder

tBy Assoelated Press.O


Detroit Mich. Sept o.-Sheritfs
and police Of the entire state started
in with redoubed energy today TO
run down the slayer of Maybelle
Williams One clue being followed Is
TO the effect that young woman an
sNering the description OF the victim
was seen In he vicinity OF kcOrse
creek last week in company with a
Detroit man who toCmerly worked IN
Ann Arbor.
The dismembered body of Miss
Ma5belle Millman, 27 years old OF
Ann Arbor Mich. lies in the county
morgue in a pitiahle exhibit of hui
man brutality A portion Of the low
er part of the trunk OF the untortun-
ate girl is still missing.
While determined men are drag
ging Ecorse creek night and day. in
The hope of discovering the one por.
tion of the girls body which has not
yet been recovered, the sheriifs OF
Wayn ana WaShtenaw counties and
the police of Ann Arbor and Detroit
are uniting in a desperate endeayor
to solve the mystery Of Miss Mill
mans murder.
The girls mother means, semi-con-
scious al her home in Ann Arbor,
having collapsed when the news was
broken TO her that the body found IN
Kcorse creek had been identified as
that of her daughter.
Clue at Ann Arbor
Miss Martha llenning, of Detroit,
a former schoolmate OF the Millman
girl. gave identification proof which
could not be disputed The scene of
investigation shifted from Detroit to
Ann Arbor After prolonged ques-
tionng Ct Miss Henning, who identi-
fed the head Of the body as that OF
her dearest girl chum, Maybelle, the
officers left hurredly for Ann Arbor.
They were accompanied by Harry
Millman, a brother of the dead girl.
Sheriff Castor and his deputies re-
fuse TO give out definitely the clue
they are working on, but most of the
questions put TO Miss Henning this
afternoon were concerning Maybelle's
physical condition, as the mutilated
| bodg leads the authorities to believe
he cutting was done by someone well
acquainted with surgery. Upon this
point Miss Henning was unable to
hroW any lieht
Head Found Tuesday.
The county physician is now in
clined to think that the girl was
strangled to death
Not until Tuesday was the head OF
! he girl found, although officials had
been dragging the creek since the
discovery of the torso Monday
morning The head and limbs were
ound sewed up in the same kind Uf
burlap bag as the one containing
| the trunk The sack was lying un-
Ter the bridge about ten yards up
stream from the place where the first
/ bag was found, evidence that the
oody was thrown from the bridge.
The features were badly decom'
posed but there was much evidence
which made identification possible.
Girls asst Words.
After identifying the head, Miss
| Henning tod nov Ma Dell2 had come
TO Detroit velt lcr l-ree weeks
ago Miss lIenning is employed in
| A grocery store. The last words OF
Maybelle to her were uttered a week
| lgO Friday morning.
If | am not here when you re-
turn tonight, don't worry" said May
oelle, Tor | am going over to see my
cousin on Lillibrldge street and may
remain there"
Il has since been learned that the
| victim never reached her cousins
home. When she left Miss Henning's 3
room she left all of her clothing ex'
cept that which she wore away, none
Of which has yet been found.
On the verge of Mysteries after the
| oyerpowering scene at the morgue,
when she identified the body OF her
chum, Miss FIenning was at first un-
able TO talk to newspaper men bat
| later she saidiHaf - aiuH
"Maybele came 10 tslsit me on
August IA The first day she was
with me she received a letter from
Minneapolis and the second day she
wrote letter TO Paul Sukey Jr., of
Minneapolis, who was a student at
Ann Arbor until last year. don't
know what was in the letters. AS
far as i know, she was in good health.
Body Carried in Auto.
mo man came to call on her while
she was visiting me. She was very
quiet girl and did not seem to attract
men very much.
William and Ernest BubOltz, broth
ers, reported to Sheriff CASTOR that
last Tuesday morning at o'clock
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