The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-27
A Chain Of Evidence
1t Convicted Man Of Crime He
Had Not Committed.
BY MARGARET BARR
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.

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In January, 1908, Gustav Jinsinger,
a literary man. and his wife. Mary
Jinsinger, rented house ut 145 Croker
street, In the city of London. They
lived apparently happily together till
the husband took In Ruth Kirkwood. a
| typistand stenographer From that time
the author and the typist We're seen by
the neighbors to be frequently togeth-
err and Mrs. Jinsinger was observed
often In tears. She was in poor health.
and a specialist in brain diseases was
seen to make visits to the house.
/ On the 10th of March, 1908, Mrs.
| Jinsinger was seen for the last time at
! her home. Miss Martha Ellison, living
| opposite. saw her enter her house and
I close the front door behind her. No
one after this date saw her come out.
Her husband and Ruth Kirkwood were
seen to come out and 60 away, both
separately and together. On the 3oth
of April vans appeared before their
door and removed the furniture Miss
Ellison saw Mr.. Jinsinger and the
typist leave the house together.
| The next occupants of the house
were Peter Hartigan and John Flynn.
They were old men, living exclusive
lives, wearing the meanest clothing
and evidently very poor. They left
| the premises after occupying them
three months. never having paid any
rent. The agent for the house report
ed that he went to it and found it de-
| serted No one saw them move out,
and it was supposed that they had
done SO at night when no one was
about
During the autumn Of 1910 No. 145
| Croker street was RACED to make room
| for business block. The cellar was
| widened and deepened to fit the new
| structure. Several feet under the old
| cellar floor the eXcavators came upon
a human body, or, rather. the remains
of a body, that had been considerably
| eaten away by quicklime or some de-
structiye agent. The place Of burial
and the attempted destruction Of the
body excited suspicion The case was
reported to the police, who made in
| quiries as to the past occupants Of the
premises, and the doings Of the jim
| singers came to light. On chemical
analysis the body was found to con-
| tain traces of arsenic.
| Tile case at once arrested the at
| tentipn Of detectives. The appearance
of Tie typist the facts of Mrs. Jinsin-
gers depression and that she had not
been seen to leave the house seemed
to llAicate that Jinsinger and Miss
| KiTkwood had been lovers and that
they had removed Mrs. Jinsinger that
they might marry If Jinsinger could
be found living with the typist there
would be sufficient evidence against
him to convict him before any jury.
A hunt was made for the author, but
for long while nothing was heard Of
him. At last 1t was learned that he,
accompanied by girl. had sailed for
America. A detective crossed In
faster steamer, arrested him and the
girl. who proved TO be Miss Kirkwood,
and took both to London for trial
Jnslnger was convicted principally
on the evidence that has been stated
here. Miss Kirkwood was acquitted
Of being an accessory to the murder
after the fact. Jinsinger was SEN
fenced to be hanged. according to the
English law. about three weeks after
his conviction.
One morning In the spring of 1908
Edward Bnrnes, a timer living on the
outskirts Of London, on going out to
work found q woman lying uncon-
scious before his door. He carried her
into the house and put her under the
care Of his wife. She soon regained
consciousness, but could give no ac-
count Of herself. She could not even
remember her name. She was per-
mitted to spend the day In the timers
house. and when he returned In the
evening lie reported the cnse to n
physician. Through the doctors indu.
ence the woman was removed to
hospital. where she was entered as a
permanent patient Two years after
her going there one morning on taking
up newspaper She gave shrek. She
had seen a notice of the coming exc.
cution of Gustav Iinsinger 4 number
of persons collected about her and
learned from her that the name jim
singer had brought back her memory.
She said she was the woman for
whose murder Iinsinger was to be ex-
ecuted.
reprieye was granted TO Iinslnger,
who, on proof of the identity of his
vie, was released. Subsequently the
detectives made hunt for Peter Har-
tgun and John Flynn After long
search they found Hartigan and de.
manded to know what had become Of
Flynn. He contradicted himself in his
replies and being further questioned
by experts In such cases, finally told |
that while the two lived together at |
l43 Croker street the house had been |
with rats. Hartigan had |
bought arsenic with which to poison |
them. One night Flynn, being Ill, arose |
in the dark for some medicine he had |
been taking, got hold Of the arsenic
by mistake and died from taking |
large dose. Fearing that he would be |
accused of having nofsonad Elvnn