Rock Island Argus., 1914-08-17
FWE ARE SLAIN
BY INSANE NEGRO
IN LOVE CASTLE
Last Page of Notorious Affinity
Case Is Written With
Bloody Slaughter.
MURDERER Is ARRESTED
Chef. After Killing Persons, Sets Fire
TO Home Which Burns TO
the Ground.

Spring Green. Wis. Aug. IA mad
negro. armed with a hand-ax. Saturday
wrote the last page OF the romance OF
Mzmah Bouton Borthwick, formerly
Mrs. Edwin II. Cheney of Oak Park,
Ill. whose affairs for five years have
been named with those of Frank Lloyd
Wright. a wealthy architect and her
neighbor.
Mrs. Borthwick and four others
were killed, one other was probably
fatally injured. and three less serious
u hurt. The elaborate bungalow built
BY Wright for Mrs. Cheney was
burned.
Julian Carlton, employed by Wright
as a chef, accused OF the crimes, sur
rendered after a search OF several
hours had been made for him He
was hurried into an automobile and
rushed to the Iowa county Jail, eigh-
teen miles away.
The Dead and Injured.
The dead are Mrs. Borthwick and her
two children, John. aged 13, and Mar
tha- 10; Emil Brodelle, a draughtsman
employed in .Wright's Office, and Ern-
est Weston, the 15-yea--old son OF VIII
Nam Weston, the farm foreman
Four others were seriously injured
by the blows of Cartons AK, and one
of these is not expected to live.
William Weston, the farm foreman.
who is so years of age, has several
bad cuts in the back of the head,
where Carleton's ha.chet struck a
glancing blow, and his face and arms
are badly burned.
Tom Brunker, a 60-year-old farm
hand, the most seriously injured OF
the survivors, is not expected to live
HIS skull was cut through by a blow
from the shingling Ratchet and both
legs are charred to the bone. II is
a marvel to the doctors that BrunkeI
IS still alive.
David Lindblom. the gardner, is ex.
pected to recover. He has hatchet
marks on the head and shoulder, and
his arms and body are badly burned
Herbert Fritz, a Chicago draughts-
man, who escaped the hatchet but
fractured his arm in diving from a win
dow, is under medical care.
Funeral of of Mrs. 5othwiek.
With simple ceremony Frank LloyC
Wright, principal in the spiritual he
gira' and builder of the love castle
here, yesterday buried his soulmate
Mamah Borthwick-
There was no funeral cortege- There
were no services, not even prayers. al
the side OF the grave nor in the home
Mamah Borthwick was laid to rest
In a plain pine box near the love cas-
tie where she had lived Witt wright,
the former Oak Park architect
On the box was heaped a mass oi
flowers taken from the garden she
had loved.
Although E. II. Cheney, Mamah
Borthwicks husband in the days be
fore the spiritual hegria, was in Spring
Green he left the funeral arrange
ments in wright's hands and did not
attend the obsequies.
Cheney left on the noon train for
Chicago.
He took with him the bodies Of his
two children, John and Martha
The farewell Of Cheney and Wright
was as dramatic as their meeting the
day before on the train from Chicago
to Spring Green They cIasped hands
In silence and went their ways.
Cheney stated that the bodies OF the
two children would be cremated in ac-
cordance with an oft-expressed wish oi
their mother.
Sheriff Bauer organized the search
for Carlton as soon as he learned of