Arizona republican., 1913-11-24
Dr. William B. Craig Is to Face Jury at Shelbyville, Indiana, on Charge of Staying Dr. Helen Knabe in 1911
EVIDENCE IS
 CIRCUMSTANTIAL
Case Is Worked Up By De- tective Employed By Cor oner Who Spent Year in Ferreting Out Alleged Murderer
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 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, November 23. -Dr. William B. Craig, president of the Indiana Veterinary College, will be placed on trial at Shelbyville next Friday for the murder of pr. Helen Knabe who was one of the most prominent women in Indiana.
 On the morning of october 24, 1911. pr. Knabe was found dead in her apartments with deep wound in her throat. Life apparently had been extinct for several hours when the doctors office girl, Miss Kath- erine McPherson, made the discovery.
 The police made number of ar rests but in the absence of any known motive for the crime, all the suspects were released. The public was not satisfied with the police theory of suicide and the case was presented to two Marion county grand juries, both of which failed to take action. Tn the meantime, Coroner Durham had been conducting an in vestigation of his own, and he reached a decision that pr. Knabe had been murdered by unknown persons"
 Various rewards were offered for information leading to the arrest of the slayer or slayers, but these failed to bring results. Friends of the wo- man finally induced the Local COun- ciI of Women of Indianapolis to raise a fund with which to conduct further investigation of the myste- rious case Harry c. Webster. a pri- vate detective employed by the COun- ciI, worked for nearly a year on the case and in December, 1912, he pre- sented before the grand jury infor- nation which the indictment against pr. Craig was based. A. M. Ragsdale, an undertaken also was indicted as an accessory after the fact.
 Craig's attorneys asked a change of venue, and the case was sent to Shelby county. where the trial was set to begin November 28. The date for RagsdaIe's trial has not been set.
 After the indictments were re- turned Webster admitted that the case he had constructed was en- tirely circumstantial and that he had no Witesses to testify that either Dr. Cranig or Ragsdale were in pr. Knabe's apartment during the night on which the woman met her death. In the alleged relations of pr. Knabe and pr. Craig, however, he claimed l to have found a motive for the crime.
 In his report to the Council of i Women, Webster reviewed the friend i ship between the two physicians, ] WTllcN began III 1JuO, NIleIl 1Dt INIidpo was assistant patholOgist in the labo- ratory of the State Board of Health. i In support of his lesser circumstan- tial evidence Webster made the fol- i lowing disclosures:
 bitter quarrel is alleged to have i followed alleged attempts of pr. Craig l to end a relationship which had be- come objectionable to him.
 pr. Craig is alleged to have been positively identified by Harry W. Haskett as man he met coming 1 out of the areaway between the Ven dome flats and the Delaware apart ments where pr. Knabe lived, shortly after II o'clock on the night of Oc- tober g.
 l pr. Craig is alleged to have known l of the death of pr. Knabe on the morning of October A. before anyone outside the apartment had been in- formed of the finding of the body. l Late on the night of october g 1 Dr. Craig is said have returned to i his home and to have made a com plete change of clothing. Webster said this information was furnished i him by pr. Eva E. Templeton, who claimed to have been told by Mrs. Lydia Tennant, housekeeper for pr. i Craig
 The wound in pr. Knabes throat could have been inflicted only by q person familiar with the human anat- omy and with a wound known to butchers as the sheep nick and de-
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