The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-01
GreWsome Find in Oaviess
County Woods Is James
Mcdonald.
HIS BROTHER ARRESTED
TAKE HIM INTO CUSTODY FOL-
LOWING INFORMATION As 70
the oUARRELs BETWEEN THE
TWO RECENTLY.

washington, Ind, Sept. with the
body found in the woods Monday night
identified as that of James Mcdonald,
whose name was associated with the
leila Stringer blackmail affair, and
q brother of the dead man, John Nc
Donald, now in custody in this city as
a suspect, important phases have de-
veloped In the case.
1t was only by chance that the body
was not assigned to the potter's field
without Identification
Yesterday Sheriff Colbert and Prose-
cutting Attorney Hastings returned
from the home of James Allen, nine
miles northeast Of this city, where they
took into custody John Mcdonald, a
brother. and brought him to this city.
4 Severe Sweating.
Coroner Holder put the man through
q severe sweating. He denied all
knowledge of the murder to the coro-
ner, but will be held. John Mcdonald
does not deny that the brothers had
numerous quarrels.
n 6lIl WIZ was at Cuc MCDOudlA
home on the night that James Nc
Donald failed to return says that John
Mcdonald sat on the side of his bed
and cried nearly all night. She says
that he was crying because of the
abuse heaped upon him by his young
er brother.
It is now believed that his identity
has been made sure. and that 1t is
only q question of hours until the man
who felled the dead man will be be-
hind the bars. Identification was
brought about by the finding of i
pocketbook which contained some pa
pers. Three weeks ago John Keegan,
q young boy, was in the wood and
found a purse. On looking through it
he saw 1t contained no money and cast
1t aside
Yesterday afternoon, upon learning
of the finding of the body, the lad re-
called his find and search was made
with success.
In the purse were receipts given by
Mrs. w. IT. Ham to James Mcdonald
for room rent. Mrs. Ham readily
identified the receipts and said that
Mcdonald had left the room about a
month ago. She gave a minute de-
scription Of Mcdonald and the clothes
and shoes he wore.
Teeth Identify Body.
To make more certain she said that
on account of a sore foot he wore a
tennis shoe, and that he had two gold
teeth and two false ones on a plate.
This identified the dead man.
Other relatives confirmed the de-
scription. and brother was called and
he likewise confirmed the story told
by others. He gave it as his opinion
that the victim was his brother.
Hundreds of people flocked into the
morgue today to view the mutilated
body and many different persons were
named as the dead man. About noon
some one mentioned the name OF
James Mcdonald, and this clew then
was taken up. About O'Clock the
body was buried in potter's field. ex.
cept the head. which has been placed
in preseryatives.
James Mcdonald was well known
about Washington and came into
prominence few months ago when
leila Clark Stringer was shot while
attempting to levy blackmail upon
Nathan G. Read. president Of the
Washington National bank.
elackmail Affair Recalled.
It was alleged. although no evidence
was produced. that Mcdonald was I'M
.plicated in this affair. The theory
that the officers are now working or
Us that Mcdonald and some other man
were cutting wood in the place where
he was found last night and that a
quarrel arose and that McDonald's as
sailant struck him in the head with ar
Ak. and that after taking his pocket
book, he dragged the body beneath $
clump of wild grape vines. The skull
clearly shows the imprint of the hee
OF an ak.