Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-11-22
SEE MYSTERY IN
GRuES0ME
FIND
WOMAN'S GARMENT, GRAMMAR AND
REVOLVER, ALL BLOOD SOAKED
FOUND IN BOX CAR AT AURORA,
ILL., MURDER IS SUSPECTED,
But NO ONE IS MISSING.
NAMES IN BOOK HAVE
ALL BEEN LOCATED

Aurora, lll.. Nov. 22.--The process
OF elimination today served only to
intensity the mystery of the murder,
traces of which, in the form of a blood
stained school book, similarly dis.
cClored section OF woman undergar-
ment and revolver were found in a
lumber laden box car here yester-
day.
Miss Elsie Helba day, of Springfield
Ore, owner of the school book, was
found last night at Des Moines, la
She thought the murdered woman
might have been Miss Alice McCor-
mack, school teacher. but the latter
was reported alive and well, at Har-
risburg, Ore, today.
The revolver with which the crime
is believed to have been committed,
forms the principal clew. 1t is an Iver
Johnson, 80 caliber, and bears the ser
ial number 62,507.
The blood soaked part of an under
garment which. with school book and
a revolver, both spattered with blood,
was found here yesterday in car of
lumber consigned from South Bend.
Wash. was not girls clothing, but
belonged to a woman, Captain Of Po-
lice Wierz said today. In the school
book, a German grammar, the name of
Elsie Helba Day Of Springfield, Ore.
was written.
The first theory of the police was
that the child owner of the book
might have been lured or dragged into
the car and attacked and slain. Close
examination of the garments convinc-
ed the authorities that it was part of
a womans dress rather than that of
a girl, md this belief was further con.
frmed today by wor1 from Des Moines
that Miss Day was visiting there and
was alive and well.
Miss Day is II years old. according
to word the police received today, and
the garment which they found was
evidently worn by woman consider.
ably above the average in height and
weight.
Miss Day thought Alice Mccormack
a teacher of Springfield, Ore. might
be the girl in the mystery. Other
names in the book besides that o'
Miss Day, were DR.. A. II. Day, Cole
vile, Wash; Chas. Mantz. Coleville
Wash: Alfred Love, 592 Southeast
East Fifth street, Des Moines, Ia. Al
fred Love. 922 Aiverside avenue, Spo
kane, Wash: Mrs. c. A. Day, 500 \
2G 10 Street, Portland, Ore. Mrs, d
Fl. Smith. Unionville, Iowa.
The car in which the bloody cloth
ing was found was in transit since
October 23, and was loaded almost tt
the roof with fiat lumber Both side
doors and one end door were sealed
THE other end door was open. Neal
this, the clothing and the revolver
were found. The open door was abou
9 IL feet square. The police are nov
proceeding on the theory that a wom
an was murdered and that her clothing
was slowed away in the car togethel
with the discriminating revolver. some
of the clothing could have been work
ed out of the door near which 1t lay
/ they think.
Can't Explain 1t.
Portland, Ore, Nov. 22.-Mlss Alice
Mccormack, school teacher neal
Harrisburg, Ore, whose name waE
mentioned last night in connection
with the mystery, discovered at Au
lrora, ILL.,, is at her home near Harris
burg. She stated over the telephone
today that she could not explain thf
presence in the box car OF the poof
given her by Miss Elsie Day.