Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-10-29
SOCIETY GIRL FOUND
MURDERED DAY BEFORE
She INTENDED TO WE'D
BALTIMORE TO MARRY STREET CAR EMpL0YE IN CHCAGOvAJDE
VILE PLAYERS ARE THOUGHT TO HAVE KILLED HER FOR MONEY
She HAD $1,000 in BILLS AND
JEWELS WHEN SHE LEFT HOME

Chicago, ILL.,, Oct. 29.-The romance
of an elopement was wiped out by
grewsomeness of a brutal murder
here today when Miss Sophia c. Sing,
er attractive Baltimore girl, was
found slain. Several hundred dollars
in money and jewelry brought from
her Maryland home to grace her we'd
ding tomorrow to William r. Wor-
then, a street car conductor, was
missing and robbery has been accept
ed as the motive for the crime.
Worthen discovered the girls body
when he returned home after midnight
to the suite occupied by them and
two vaudeville performers in a room
ing house at 1929 Indiana avenue.
Miss Singer had been bound and gag
ged and struck with terrific force with
a billy made from an iron door
knob wrapped in handkerchief, Her
body was enfolded in blanket.
The vaudeville performers, Chas.
d. Conway, said to be a high diver,
and his wife, who also is known as
Beatrice Rial and May Monte a"e
being sought by the police in connec-
tion with the crime. The body of
Miss Singer was found on the bed in
the room occupied by them. The
couple had been in the house during
the evening, but no trace OF them has
been learned since the discovery of
the body.
According to Worthen, Miss Singcr
was an acquaintance of Mrs. Conwal
who was known to her as Miss Rial
and it was through the latter's invita-
tion that he and his sweetheart went
to room at the same house. The four
moved into the rooms where the MUIR
der was committed only yesterday
They had previously lived only a few
blocks north or. the same street Wor-
then told the police he had paid the
expenses Of the Conway's as well as
those of himself and Miss Singer, at
the rooming house since joining them.
Worthen, who was held by tie po-
lice, declared that before leavin., the
house last night, he handed his tiance
$48 in the presence of the Conways,
and then went down town. 1t was af-
ter midnight when he returned to the
house and found the hallway spattered
with blood He aroused the others
in the house by repeated pounding
on the door leading to the Conway
room after finding that Miss Singer
was not in her apartment
A key was finally furnished by Mrs.
Julia Mccarthy, keeper of the house,
and the door was opened. A crime
was apparent and further investiga-
ton showed that the money he had
given the woman was missing as we'll
as several articles of jewelry.
A trail of blood led to a kitchen
which the four had the use Of, and
there the table was found covered
with blood, as was the floor. door
Knob with the piece of iron attached /
or knob on the other end, lay on .
he floor wrapped in handkerchief, |
saturated with blood and with a leath-
,r shoestring attached to it in loop
ashton. Worthen said Conway had
,nce exhibited the bludgeon to Miss
Singer with the remark This is what
throw EN- out with
According to Worthen's story, he
net Miss Singer in Baltimore several
months ago while he was employed
here by street car company. He
circumstances. When he decided to
ome to Chicago with the idea of To-
atjng here, Miss Singer, he said, eX-
ressed a desire to accompany him.
He told the police that he had spent
most of his life on a Maryland farm,
lear Baltimore with his father, who
till resides there. He is 26 years old.
Worthen was questioned for several
ours by the police who endeavored to
ubstantiate the facts he first related.
he recital was the same as his first
tory. The police searched Miss Sing
RS trunks and looked through the
fleets of Worthen. Nothing to throw
lore light on the murder was found.
n the girls. trunk were some new
which the fiance said were
o have been part of her wedding cos
ume. ..,.,,..t
Worthen threw himself on his bed
nd sobbed when he was shown the
"She did not want me to leave her
lone last night" he said, "but | had
ONE matters to be looked after and I
wanted to have them out of the way
o nothing need interrupt our honey
noon. II only mad stayed at home.
Il can't go back to Baltimore now.
This may kill her mother and it sure
y will break my fathers heart. He
new and admired Sophia We We're
,oing right back after the wedding
never can go back and
ace her mother or my father. Now
IN an outcast'