Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-08
SEEK GIRLS SLAYER.
One MaybeIIe MiIIman Murder
Clue Is Worthless.
HEAD AND LIMBS FOUND
They Were in Another Bag in
Ecorse Creek.
BODY IDENTIFIED BY CHUM
Entire Police Of Michigan Working
on Mystery-Drag for Re-
mainder Of Corpse.

DETROIT, Mich, September S.-Sher-
if CASTOR and the police of the entire
state started in with redoubled energy to-
day to run down the slayer of Maybelle
Mililnan, whose headless, armless and
legless body was found in Ecorse creek
Monday morning and whose head and
limbs were recovered yesterday.
The sheriff and his deputies who are
working on the case remained in Ann
Arbor last night, but the clue which had
taken them there in the forenoon proved
worthless, and as far as the specific OBJ
ject OF their search is concerned this
morning found them as much at sea as
before.
One of the clues on which the energies
of the officers is directed today is that fur
nished by the two St. Cosme road farm
ers. Ernest and William Bucholtz, who. a
week ago Tuesday, when on their way
to market in this city about o'clock in
the morning were passed by a.. three
seated automobile containing two men
and large burlap bag. The bag was
similar to the two which contained the
body Of the dead young woman. and the
machine was racing toward Ecorse creek.
0cSn ia Wdn COMPANY
Another clue being followed by the Of
ficers today is one to the effect that a
young woman answering the description
Of the victim was seen in the vicinity Of
Ecorse creek last week in company with
a Detroit man, who formerly worked in
Ann Arbor.
Dragging in Ecorse creek was continued
today In the hope of finding some OF the
dead girls clothing and the lower por-
ton of the abdomen, which has not yet
been recovered.
The body of Miss Millman is to be taken
to Ann Arbor today for burial
Discovery Of the Head.
The identification of the murdered girl
was quickly made yesterday following the
discovery of the girls head at a point
in the creek fifty feet upstream from
where the other CHASTITY find was made
the day before. The head was In a sack
used for transporting cement, as was
the torso, and was weighted down with
the same kind of bricks.
With the head were the girls arms and
part of the legs. Her long, heavy and
very black hair. which had strangely been
cropped close from the head. was also in
the bag. There is still missing that part
of the body from the knees to we'll above
the thighs. and this is no doubt in third
sack somewhere in the creek.
It is evident that the two sacks at least
were cast from the Jefferson avenue
bridge. The one found yesterday lodged
in the bushes directly under the bridge.
while the other foated only short dis
lance.
The head was in excellent state Of pres
ervation, indicating that the crime had
been committed recently. Two incisors
were missing from the right side of the
mouth and one from the left side, EVIL
IDENTIFY having been knocked out in the
girls desperate struggle with her slayer.
The physicians concluded from mark
about the neck, the signs of henorrhage
from the ears and the protrusion Of the
eyes that the girls life had been taken
by strangulation. 1t was also apparent
that the legs had been sawed on at the
knees.
Identified by a Chum.
The Identification was made at the
morsue by Miss Henning, formerly Of
Ann Arbor, Miss Millman's most intimate
friend. Miss Millman recently came from
Ann Arbor to visit Miss Henning. whose
parents are said to have objected to the
intimacy of the two girls and to have
procured for her here a position in order
that she might be beyond the reach of
Miss Millman's influence.
Miss Henning created an agonizing
scene at the morgue. becoming hysterical
and fa1ntlng several times. Sne unneSl-
tatingly identified the head as that of her
friend. who. she said. had left their
boarding place Friday evening and was
not afterward heard from. "She told me"
said Miss Henning. that she was going
to visit friend in Lillibridge street, and
for me not to worry If she did not come
back that night
1t is learned that the house she was to
visit in Lillibridge street was that OF
Thomas c. Kearns. lawyer. whose sis
ter and Miss Millman were friends Mr..
Kearns said today that the girl was ex-
pected by his sister, but that she never
reached his home. He is also quoted as
having said to friends that he had heard
Miss Millman say that she had quarreled
with her beau in Ann Arbor and that
he had made threats toward her.
Concealed Her Purpose.
1t Is said that before leaving her board
ing house Miss Millman had inquired
which street car she should take to reach
Dubois street, and when asked to which
number she wanted to go she had re-
Piled: ''Oh. it isn't Dubois street I want
to go to, but couple of blocks from