The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-10
TRAIL CARMICHAEL
BY HIS FUR OVERCOAT
Lines Closing In on Missing Minister Is Claim Of Police
Believed to Be Hiding In Chicago-~Many
Theories Being Advanced

| PORT HURON. Mich. Jan. I0-The
fact that he wore q black FUR overcoat
has been the one means Of tracing the
Rev. John Havilaud Carmichael, alleged
slayer of Amos Gid" Browning. since
| he left his home In Adair Tuesday
lmornins, went TO the Rattle Run church.
eight miles distant. in the evening. left
| several hours after the crime is alleged
/ 10 nave been committed, then taxing
/ an eaTiY train Wednesday morning for
uIcnaei thought that the cvercoat would
/ shleld him from Identification The hIQh
callar was turned zap at every place hp
NaS seen after the murder. his whiskers
ana features being partially kept FROM
! the view of those who saw him.
Identified Him.
YET This long black fur oyercoat HIS
been the means OF tracing the fugitive
| minister from the time he left the
cnurca until he arrived in Chicago, and
/ - AS seen by an unidentified man.
Sheriff Wageuseit OF this county. ex-
poets that the minister will be arrested
I'm or near Chicago either this afternoo,
or evening. the dragnet having been
woven so closely about him
Carmichael arrived in Chicago Sunday
afternoon; No evidence can be found
mat city, and il is thought that heI
VIII be arrested there, as the fugitive
IS believed 10 be penniIess.
Motive for Crime.
The motive for the crime in the utue
Ra-tle Run sanctuary is yet To be de-
tern ined, and the officers believe that
tine true motive Will never be known
until il is secured from the mouth Of
Carmichael himself.
IT, became known today that the car
michael family has been almost poverty
stricken The Rev. Mr. Carmichael re-
SeiVed a salary OF only $500 a year from
u" AGAR church, but he received no
stated amount from the Rattle Run CON
etegdqon, III whose church the tragedy /
took place.
The fact that he was badly in need !
or money Is thought to have prompted /
the murder The officers think ne may /
have thought that his family would re-
celNe the 5000 insurance he carried.
Has Written Novel
The day Of the murder the Rev. Car
michael sent a copy Of a novel be had
written to Rev. O. w Baldwin, Of De
trOit. The title Of the novel was THE
Blazed Mill Trail" The Rattle Run
pastor told the Detroit minister that he
hoped 10 make some money on the sale
Of the novel and asked that he would
devise q way 10 sell it. Now the theory
IS advanced that the novel could be sold !
after he committed the church crime,
ana that the money would 60 To his
family
Another phase of this theory Is that
no murder was committed and that
Carmichael and Browning will both re-
turn some DAY and that the former
viii reap the harvest on the sale OF his
book.
Daughters Story.
From the time mat the officers be-
gan 10 suspect ,hat Carmichael was
the murderer the ministers pretty
daughter Cola. aged nineteen years !
has placed herself on the defensive
when questioned about her father. Her
story is that her father left home to call
on members Of his flock as was his
custom. and that he expected TO re-
turn the next day. She tells OF the
kind disposition of her parents, and
says that II a murder really was COM
-'tted, her father was the one slain
= o services were held in either the
En. In or Rattle Run churches today. I
p re former church members will have
2 new pastor in the near future, while
the latter structure will be burned by
the farmers. who say that their wives
and children Will never enter it again,
and that ii is disgrace 10 the com
munltE.