Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-24
WILL NEVER FIND
GIRL S MURDERERS
INSPECTOR RIEMER HAS LITTLE
HOPE TO FIND SLAYERS OF
HATTIE lynda.

Milwaukee, Nov. 20.-"The men who
dragged Hattie lynda into shanty
near the Racine street bridge, assault
ed the girl and then brutally muir
dered her, will probably never be cap
tured,' said Police Inspector Otto c.
Riemer at the central station yester-
day morning.
"A score of detectives and patrol
men have been over the ground az
the scene of the tragedy thoroughly,
and what cleWs have been discovered
are very meager indeed" he con
tinued.
Inspector Riemer said he believed
there was only one chance that the
men would be arrested and this
chance rested with the reward alder
men will ask the city to offer at the
council meeting on Monday.
unless some one divulges informa-
tion-some one who is eager to OBJ
tain that $1,000-that will throw some
light on the murder said the in
spector, 1.-The identity of the girl's
murderers will probably remain a
mystery"
Council to Act Monday.
Aid. L. j. Pierson of the thirteenth
ward says he intends introducing a
resolution at the council meeting on
Monday night asking for an approprIa-
ton of $1,000 to be offered as a re-
ward for the person furnishing infor-
nation that will lead to the arrest
and conviction of the fiends.
There seems to be no clews upon
which the police might begin work.
All that remains is the empty shanty,
few tumbled chairs in one corner,
half dozen empty beer bottles on the
floor, an old desk and window cur
tain.
When Detective Shenar first entered
the building, shortly after noon on
Wednesday, he saw the girls body in
sitting position under table, where
it had been crowded by the men who
strangled her.
Window Smeared With Lime.
The shades on the two front win
dows facing Humboldt street, We're
drawn half way up from the bottom,
and the other window, facing the rail-
road yards, had been smeared with
cement and lime, thereby partially OBJ
securing the view within.
On the floor lay scattered bits of
paper, old letters and discarded Office
stationery, tossed there when the Of
fee was abandoned by the cement
company that last occupied it. There
was nothing upon which the detec-
tives might begin work.
No one has been found yet who
claims to have seen the girl in com
pany with the men, or to have seen
her attacked. A fisherman living I'M
der the bridge says he heard scream
on last Friday night, rushed from his
snanty, but it was too dark to see
anything.
When the detectives arrived all that
remained was the empty shanty and
the body of the murdered girl, her
pretty young face contorted and
twisted in pain in her last death
murderers.
The deeper the detectives probe
into the affair the more convincing
they have become that the crime was
committed by Milwaukee thugs. All
sorts of conjectures and theories
have been advanced, but nothing has
so far led to tangible clew.
Several young boys in that neigh
borhood-boys the police would can
"toughs under the ban of sus-
picion yesterday and were searched
for by the police and questioned.
Policemen who have patrolled this
beat say they shall not confine their
search and investigations to full grown
men, but will also work among the
young boys.
81 wouldn't put it past any OF
them" said one of the patrolmen last
night.