South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-02-18
Police Chief Goes to Chicago on
Secret Mission With Pen
Knife As New CleW to MyS-
teriOuS Murderer.
FATHER TAKES BITTER
VOW OF VENGEANCE
Declares He Will "Cut Guilty
Man to Pieces in Two Min
uteS" If Law Does Not Take
Its Course.

AURORA. H.. Feb. 1S.-Search for
another man in connection with the
brutal Staying OF Miss Theresa HOl-
lander, beaten TO death in st. Nicholas
cemetery near her home in this city,
was made today in Chicago.
Fred Michaels, chief of police, to-
day left for Chicago on a secret mis-
sion 1t was reported here that he
had gone 10 look for a man whose
name has not heretofore been men
toned in the HOilander murder mys-
tery. It was reported that a pen
knife identified as belonging to this
man-as yet unnamed and known
only TO Chief MicnGels-had been
found in the lonely cemetery not far
from the spot where Theresa Hol-
lander met her death. An oath of
vengeance over the body Of Miss Hol-
lander was taken Wednesday by Louis
iollander, father of the slain girl.
Fifty friends and relatE,es of the girl
SatheTed about her bier, heard the
father take the oath.
Swears Vengeance.
Two minutes with my daughters
slayer is all / ask" cried the father.
Just two minutes and L would cut
tC pieces the man who killed my
daughter / swear I'll Kill that man If
the law does not take its course. He
deliberate planned the murder and
nc Viii suffer"
a large candelabrum bearing half a
dozen large wax candles Hickered from
the old walnut bureau in the small
room off of the DarlOr of the HOl-
lander home. where the girls mother
Iay GRIEF stricken a string. Of beads
belonging 90 the murdered girl lay
upon the bureau.
Ou a finger of the left hand of the
girl as she Ia I'm the coffin sparkled
tho diamond ring given her by her
former fiance. Anthony Petras. who is
held by the Aurora police in cOnnec-
tiCn with the Staying ON the wall
hung several pictures of religious sub
jects. a crucihX, and a membership
certificate in the Knights and Ladies
of Honor. of which Miss Hollander
was financial secretary. In the cor
ner stood the coffin.
The coroner and six jurors entered
the home late yesterday. The jurors
viewed the body and postponed the
inquest until tomorrow.
Scarcely one of the original fingers
of suspicion continued to point at
Petras Tuesday night and so far as
really positive solution is concerned,
the police are as much ut sea as
when the pretty girls body was
found. More recent developments
than those first accepted as conclu-
sive indications have served TO mold
Petras after the supposedly strongest
points proved TO be pOintlesS.
Aurora's officialdom insisted all day
that the gold watch found near the
murdered girl belonged To Petras.
Tuesday night they admitted that the
watch belonged TO Miss Hollander.
All day long various persons IN
authority insisted that blood was
found ON Petras' coat and trousers.
Tuesday night il developed that no
blood has been found on any of his
outer garments. Some blood has been
todnd on his underwear, and Mrs.
Petras Corroborates her husbands S
story as TO how the blood came 10
be there. u was declared all day
Tuesday that Petras and Miss Hol-
iander rode homeward aboard the
same street car Monday night. and
that they left the car together.
Petras, from the first admitted that
ne was aboard the same street car.
but strenuously denied that he got of
when Miss HOllander alighted. He
insisted that she left the car at Ohio
ST and Broadway. about a block from
whore she lived on Ohio st.
Then he swuTe that he remained on
the car until ii reached Indiana av.,
one block further north where he
lives. and that he talked with a negro
named Benny"
story CorrobOrated.
Tuesday night that story was cor
roborated by two witnesses in both
Of whom Chief OF Police Michaels
saws he has entire confidence.
one of them is r. II. Shellhors,
conductor Of the street car. and the
other Is Walter Hickman. negro
passenger Both of these men have
told the police that Petras story, in
that respect IS correct.
But they also tell something chat
Is now. with the lapse OF other evil
dence. probably the strongest point
aEainst him. Both Shellihors and
Hickman say that Petras swung off
the car before it stopped at Indiana
av and started back toward Ohio
And Hickman insists that he ran.
petras was confronted with that
s:ory and promptly denied H. saying:
That's a lie ] get of the car and
went straight home and remained
there.
Mrs. Petras SAYS he arrived home at
about 10 o'clock and did not leave
ihe house until the police came and
got him.
Petras was formerly Miss Holland
er's most ardent suitOT. Then they
auarreled and about six months ago
he married 17-year-old Ameta Math- /
ews.
KILLED ~ BURGLARS.
NEW YORK. FEB. lS-While at /