Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-30
NO CLEW YET IN CHICAGO
MURDER CASE
SUSPECT ARRESTED But PROVES AN
ALIBI AND IS RELEASED POLICE
NOW LOOKING FOR A Mr.. SPENCER,
WHO WAS WITH HER ON NIGHT OF
MURDER.

Chicago. ILL.,, Sept. 30,-Acting OF
an entirely new clew, states attorne.
Chas. H. Hadley, of Wheaton, at The
head of a dozen Chicago dete tives
today lay siege to a building in Hyde
Park, where they hoped to apprehent
the slayer of Mrs. Mildred Allison
Rexroat, the tango teacher, murdered
near Wayne, Friday night.
Hadley and Sheriff A. A, Kuhn came
to Chicago following tip from s
Young man who asserted he knew the
identity of the SLAYER, who is supposed
to have used the name of Spencer
The informant said the murderer for
merly lived at Bushnell. ILL.,, that he
worked as bounce" at dance hall
three years ago in an amusement park
where Mrs. ReXroat was employed
Sheriff Kuhn said that he was con
vinced that spencer" had an accom-
plice and that the motive was robbery
There is only slight likelihood the
sheriff added, that their victim had
knowledge dangerous to them. and
that they resorted to murder to 81
lence her.
A man believed by detectives to
answer the description of Spencer
was arrested in . ds4 n-town barber
shop. Chief of Detectives Halpin sent
for persons who could identify ''Spen.
GER to look at the prisoner.
The latter denied that he was the
man sought and said he lived in Elm
hurst a suburb. The suspect estab-
lished his identity as Albert Bauer,
accounted for himself satisfactorily
and was allowed to 90,
Everett A. ReXroat, a Macomb coun-
ty farmer, husband of Mrs. Mildred
Allison Rexroat, told the coroner's
jury the history of his acquaintance
and life with Mrs. ReXroat. His testi-
mony, together with that of w. H.
Allison, her divorced husband. and
others, who knew something of the
under which Mrs. Rex
rcat visited Wayne. failed 10 throw
any light on the identity of the slayer.
and an adjournment of the coroner's
inquest was taken until Thursday
to permit the police to seek
more evidence.
The efforts of the police now are
centered in a search for "Mr. Spen-
cer," pupil of Mrs. Rexroats dane
ing class. reported to have been in
fatuated with her and who she had
said had arranged for her to teach a
private class at Wheaton and who
her from Chicago on the
night she met her death.
ReXroat. on the witness stand said:
"I met her in the dance hall OF an
park in Chicago. She told
ne she was divorced woman and
after the first meeting I saw her two
)r three times week"
He said they were married October
.G, in Grown Point, Ind, Mrs. Rex
,oat had obtained her divorce from
Allison only few weeks previously
md the Illinois law prevented their
marriage in this state. For a short
ime after the couple were married
hey lived at the elder ReXroat's farm
lear Macomb. III. "She wanted to edu
,ate her three children. so she came
pack to Chicago" ReXroat said. "She
Intended to come back to me-
c. A. Goodman, who lives in Wheat
IN and who occupied the seat in the
rain in front of Mrs. Rexroat and a
nan supposed to be "Mr. Spencer,
vas one of the chief witnesses at the
nuuest. "The couple sat back of me
IN the $50 train he said. They
we're talking about the new dances,
the tango.
Mrs. Johnson, with whom Mrs. Rex
'oat roomed. said she was sure she
would be able to identify Spencer by
MS voice. "On the night of her
leath," Mrs. Johnson testified, "a
nan called her on the telephone and
she answered herself heard her
say. oh. is this you. Mr.. Spencer?
Then she got excited and couldn't
hear and called me to the telephone
Mr.. Spencer told me to tell her to
meet him at G o'clock at the Aurora
and Elgin station, and Mrs. Rexroat
told me to say all right, she would
meet him.
"Then she packed suit case with
a party dress and said she probably
would not be home until the next
"rhe next morning the telephone
rang and the same mans voice SAD
that she would not be back She's
going east to get married and is go
Ing to give up her rooms,' he said. "