The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-08
JUSTICE, HE CRIES
Green Lavender to Hunt Down
Daughters Slayer.
He Will Go to California and
Seattle.
A MAN in THE CASE.
Certain That She Was Murdered
for Money.
FOndness for Scenery Probably
Led Her to Mountain.

Declaring that he himself would run
down and mete out justice to the STAY
er of his daughter. Green Lavender
left Topeka last night for ST. Joseph.
No, to learn from friends there
whether or not news of his daughter
had recently been received there. The
old man is convinced that the body
found was that of his daughter and
will go at once to California in case he
does not learn while in ST. Joseph that
his daughter still lives. He thinks he
can make the identification complete
if he can see the jewelry which the
San Francisco police have IN their
possession.
1t is a forlorn hope that takes Cav
ender to ST. Joseph. He says he is
trying to believe that his daughter still
lives. but that he can not. Instead,
he can constantly see the bleached
bones of his offspring upon the lonely
slope of Mount Tamalpais and he
knows, he says, that she was killed
for her money.
The father is bent with the weight
of years and his troubles and refuses
to be comforted in this, his most re-
cent sorrow. but is bent on vengeance
if his fears are realized and the skele-
ton is identified as that of his daugh-
ter.
'The description fits that of my
"even to the dress which she wore
when 1 saw her last, blue silk. She
had a small amount of dental work
done on one of her teeth, but this
might have been overlooked by those
who made a hasty examination of
the body. She had a pair of heavy
No. shoes, which she wore when
climbing about the mountains.
Her fondness for mountain seen
cry amounted to almost a passion
with her nd This ma fn
that she was in the fastness Of the
mountains, where she had been easily
lured when the murder was commit
ted. In the last letter received she
from San Francisco. and there is no
doubt in my mind that the bones found
are those of my poor daughter.
ST am satisfied that she was muir
dered by some man who knew that she
carried $1,000 about with her and
an easy matter for him to have lured
her to the srot where the crime was
committed"
Will Go to Frisco.
The old mans eyes glittered and his
lips closed tight as he said:
81 am going right out there and will
follow the murderer to the ends of
the earth and avenge the death of my
daughter. 1 konw she has been muir
dered for her money. I know I can do
the course I shall pursue.
81 will go T. Seattle if I do not find
clue in San Francisco and will find
who was her companion there and fol-
low them to California and the scene
of the murder. 1 was living in Colo
RADIO Springs six years ago when
similar crime was committed on the
top of Chevenne mountain. And to
think that my poor daughter should
die in almost exactly the same man
ner drives me to madness
"She shall and must be avenged and
/ will follow her slayer to the ends of
the earth and see that justice is done.
OF course there is a bare chance that
the skeleton is not that of my daugh-
ter and I am trying to hope for the
best, but 1 know that it was she who
was slain. She wore a pair of brace
let's and I can make the identity GER
tain as soon DIS I see the one now in
possession of he San Francisco police.
She wore no watch when last I saw
her but she vas amply provided with
funds and could easily have purchased
the one found near the skeleton"
Description of the Body.
Following IS the description of the
murdered woman from the San Fran
cisco Examiner:
Height, feet 8 or inches.
A wealth Of pretty brown hair.
Perfect lower teeth.
Waist probably 26 inches.
High insters and No. shoes Of
good quality with military heels.
Gold lattice-work bracelet on right
wrist.
Seth Thomas watch No. 1O9,520,
with keystone filled case No. 2.161, 149.
and a cottage engraved in center of
back case.
Long watch chain of fiat gold links
around neck and fastened to clothing
with heur dc lis gold pin.
Large blue straw hat with dark
trimmings.
Blue military suit, heavily braided,
with three-quarter length coat.
Silk underskirt of blue with white
figure in it.
Tortoise shell back comb with wide
gold filigree pand.