The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-16
is TAKEN
TO GARY
Chiefs Rimbach Of Ham
mond and Martin Of
Gary Will Bring the
Prisoner to Lake
County.

At last the murderer Of Lizzie
Schrader has been discovered. He is
under arrest at the South Chicago
police station and there confessed to
ell Of the terrible details Of enc Of
the most brutal and fsndish murders
of an innocent girl child that has
ever been heard OF IN Indiana GRIM
inal history.
The murderer of Lizzie Schrader
is William eagle, the man who was
arrested in a cheap lodging house in
Chicago, charged with several other
crimes of a similar nature.
For nearly two years the terrible
secret Of the death Of the little girl,
who was on her way from visit to
where her father was working on a
team shovel, has been jealously
Tuarded by the silent sand-hills to
he south of Tolleston and by eagle
imself, whose consciousness of
uilt has not seemed to prey upon
S perverted mind in all the long
onths since the terrible crime hap
ned
As soon as eagle was arrested the
lice suspected. from the fact that he
.s,itted being employed by William
hman. who lives near TOlIestOn, that
tgIe was guilty of the Schrader muir
r The prisoner was sweated with
Of the skill of old, experienced of
,ers and finally. without n sugges-
N having been made regarding the
~ribIe crime at TOHestOn, he told of
In all of its terrible details.
The sum and substance of the con-
fession. which was made in the pres
ence of Detective Matthew Mcnamara
of south Chicago, Chief OF Police RIM
bach of Hammond. and Chief of Police
Martin of Gary, as follows:
DESCRIBES THE MEETING.
81 was on the way to Gary to buy a
package of tobacco. AS L was going
through the woods 1 met the little
Schrader girl. She dressed in q
little gingham dress and was carrying
a dinner pail, which 1 presume con-
tained her fathers dinner.
aAs soon as I SAW her 1 made ad-
vances to her and finally grabbed heI
by the arm. She made loud Outcry
1t frightened me and 1 placed my hand
over her mouth. She resisted me still
further and for fear that the attention
of some passers-by would be attracted
1 put my hand on her throat
LEFT HER ON GROUND.
4sAfter I had accomplished my pur-
pose 1 discovered that the little Eir
did not move. 1 left her lying the
ground and fastened back to the farm
of Bill Lohman, where l worked.
some time after that 1 left Lob.
mans and went back to Chicago"
The rest of the story is stiIl fresI
in the minds of the people of the CaIu-
met region, who were inexpressibl,
shocked by the terrible revelation,
which were made as u result of fhs
discovery of the body of the child.
BLOODHOUNDS ON TRAIL.
sheriff r. :. Carter, Jene Farley o
Crown Point, dozen policemen fron
Hammond and other cities, Times re
porter and staff photographer ant
scores of citizens soon made up "A pOss'
able manhunts in the history of tn,
state.
The Chicago papers were filled witt
stories of the affair and there wer,
many theories as to how the murdei
took place and as to who the murders
was. Weeks passed by and there wa
no solution of the mystery. The cas,
promised to so down into history a
ONE of the most peculiar and terrible
IF unexplained crimes.
At that time the whole region wa