The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-29
Charged With Murder of Tan
go Teacher Whom He Sc
cretely Married in May
But Has Alibi.
HE WAS 200 MILES AWAY
First and Second Husbands Of the
Dead Woman May be Able to
Tell Something of Use
In Case

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WHEATON, ILL.,, Sept. 29.-Formal
ly charged with the murder of his
wife, Mrs. Mildred Acknowledgement,
the Chicago dancing teacher, who was
shot and then thrown upon the rail-
road track near Wayne. ILL.,, Friday
night, Everett Rexroat, the son Of
wealthy Macomb, Ill, farmer, was
brought here today by Sheriff Kuhn
to testify at the coroner's inquest at
West Chicago. Rexroat VINO was TAX
en- into custody shortly after midnight,
took his arrest cody, and declared
upon his arrival here today that he
will have no trouble establishing a
satisfactory alibi.
IT was at home Friday night with
two neighbors, George and Albert Bar
clay" he said. I'VE sat in the parlor
/ from 7:45 to 10:S0 p. m. Macomb is
more than 200 miles from the spot
where my wife's body was found and
1t would have been physical impos-
sibility for me to have been there" :"
:. that the Barclay brothers fully Cor
i roborated Rexroat's story and that his
father has collected several other wit
nessts who will testify that he was in
Macomb on the night of the murder.
J, The warrant charging Rexroat with
, torney Hadley. but county officials to.
} day declared that it was obtained to
q ,nsure the young farmers presence at
the inquest. They believe that Rex
roat, to whom the dancing teacher
! was secretly married in May, or her
) first husband. William Henry Allison
: another witness at the inquest, may
; be able to disclose something about
). her acquaintance with other men tina,
: will throw more light on the murder
e mystery.
!. With two men first suspected, defin
itely eliminated from the case, count!
authorities aided by the Chicago po
] lice today began the search for the
: man who called Mrs. Allison-Rezroat's
/ landlady on the telephone on the
d morning after the murder and tolt
d her that the dancing teacher was go
a ing to be married and had gone away
J. Sheriff Kuhn believes that when ht
has this man under arrest he will have
solved the mystery.
Surgeons who examined the bod.
today declared that from the direction
). by the bullet after entering the won
y ans face her murderer threw one arm
about her neck, forced back her heat
\ and then fired, with the barrel of th
q. revolver pressed against her cheek
She was dead, they said, before he
~ body was placed across the railroad
!, tracks in front of an approaching
!. freight train.
Inquest is Held.
WEST CHICAGO, H., Sept. 29.-
b. William H. Allison, divorced husban
r. of Mrs. Mildred Allison-Rexroat, tn
le Chicago tango instructor, slain nea
m Wayne, H., Friday night, took tn
ID stand Just before the coroner's II
= quest was reached at noon today an
declared that he had no knowledg
is of the murder and knew of no pos
n. sible motive that might have promp
b. ed the killing. Gazing fixedly at tn
witness as II to catch his every wort
b. was Everett Rexroat the wealth
~ Macomb, Ill., farmer who marie
In Mrs. Allison secretly three weeks a
ter she divorced her first HUSBAND
Rexroat who is formally charged wit
n. the murder, was brought here in Gu
In tody of Sheriff Kuhn Of Dupage coul
ly ty, who arrested him early today. II
iy was to take the stand when the il
ly quest was resumed this afternoon an
dy declared that on the night Of I'll
ar murder he was more than 200 mile
from Wayne. chatting with his neig
Ia bors at Macomb.
or At the morning session, Frank Cad
a brakeman, and Robert Runl. an e
gineer for the Joliet and Eastern ra
er. way, told how they found the mangl'
ng body lying beside the tracks in Il
dy lonely ravine near Wayne
13 Allison followed them on the stan
The first husband Of the murders
woman declared that even after u
dancing teacher divorced him la
April, they remained on friendly terri
3. and that he saw her several tim
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