The Detroit times., 1914-12-17
SHES AT STORY
OF NEPHEW OF
SLAIN WOMAN
(Costisued from Page OneD.

W'se poWpoit6 pet cog, puppy
only four months old, was prob
ably a witness Of the tragic end
Of his mistress. The dog was In
the house at the time the crime
was Committed.
A little fox terrier dog, owned
by Charles Bomholt, who was a
daily visitor to his sisters home,
barked and howIed, outside the
house, during Wednesday morn
ing, unable to Get into the house
whore hIs friend lay dead.
Airey, the suspect who was ar
rested early Thursday morning,
was taken to an inner room Of
the detective bureau, Thursday
afternono, and closely questioned
by several detectives.
Detectives sent to County Chem
ist Clark, some grit that they
scraped from beneath the finger
nails Of Rueping, to have an anal
ysis made, In the effort to learn
whether il showed traces Of blood.
Or. Clark has not yet made the
analysis.
In the arrest OF George Airey,
alias "Dickie" Airey, AS years old,
and practically homeless. except for
lodgings in saloons and transient
rooming houses, the police have a
suspect In connection with the brutal
killing OF Miss Frances Bomholt, aged
62, who was found kneeling beside
her bed In her home, No. 27 Austin
St., Wednesday, with her skull ter
ribly crushed with an ak, and 10 cuts
from the weapon, on her left arm,
hand, and head.
The police dragnet, thrown out for
the slayer, had spread the word
broadcast, to notify the police at once
of the movements OF suspicious per-
sons, and particularly to search for
persons with bloodstained clothing.
Shortly after l O'clock, Thursday
morning, the police received a call
from the Blanca hotel, No. LAG Mich
igan-ave., that man, under the in
fiuence OF liquor, had applied for a
room In the place, and had retired,
refusing to register. Detectives Roche
and BureZyk were sent to investigate
They found Airey, short stocky
man, five feet three inches tai, and
weighing 205 pounds. His shirt
sleeves, near the shoulders, were
DIOOu-Sldlutu,
stains on the socks found near his
bed, and three handkerchiefs were
soaked with blood. He declared to
the police, when closely questioned.
that the blood was from bleeding
tooth.
The police intend to have a dentist
examine him, to try to learn whether
he had such trouble.
Airey was locked up as disorderly
person, at 2:10 o'clock, Thursday
morning, and Detectives Roche and
Burczvk have been tracing his move
ments, as narrated by him. The fact
that Airey's last real home was in
the residence of Louis st. Aubin, No.
144 Eighteenth-st., is regarded as a
significant feature. Miss Bomholt's
home, at No. 27 .Austln-st., is only a
few hundred feet from the st. Aubin
home, as Austin-st opens at the rear
of No. 1876 Eighteenth-st., and runs
west for one block.
Airey gave only the barest detail OF
his movements, Wednesday, declaring
that he spent the entire day in Grit
fms saloon. and Stephens saloon, on
Michigan-ave. He spent Tuesday
night at No. SO Spruce-st., having
walked home with Fred Osborne, bar
tender in william Coughlin's saloon,
No. 432 Michigan-ave. He said he left
Osborne's house at o'clock, We'd
nesday morning, and then spent the
day in the two Michigan-ave. saloons.
Miss Bomholts body was not dis
covered until a few minutes before
noon, and the police were not notified
until after 2:30 o'clock. Just what
time she was killed has not been def
nitely established.
Detective Roche, asked whether
Airey had complained Of toothache in
the Osborne home, said, Nothing was
said about 1t there"
Airey is divorced from his wife, and
has not worked for four months at
his trade as a printer, he says.
He said that after leaving the st.
Aubin home, he slept in Coughlin's
saloon, for while, but was put out
of there, several days ago.
Meanwhile, John Bomholt, Sc years
old, brother of the slain woman, and
Florenz Rueping, 27 years old. a
nephew, both of whom lived in Miss
Bomholt's home, are held by the po-
lice, with charges OF homicide opposite
their names on the register, but the
police express the opinion that neither
of them committed the crime.
Rueping's story that he came home
from his work in Hammond, Standish
e. Co.'S plant at 1920 o'clock In the
morning, had breakfast, retired, and
slept until he was aroused by Charles
Bomholt, OF No. 1876 Twentieth-st., an
other brother of the slain woman, who
discovered the body at noon, Is be-
lieved by the police.
John Bomholt also employed by
Hammond, Standish & Co., had left
for work az o'clock, and his sister.
as was her custom had bade him good
bye at the door. She always arose
and prepared Rueping's breakfast,
then prepared breakfast for John, then
started her days work. including the
filing OF the baseburner with coal
The half-6lled coal scuttle, with its
contents splattered with blood, indi-
Gates that Miss Bomholt was struck
dewn while filing the coal scuttle, in
tho shed back OF the house. One ele-
ment or the crime that Is most puz-
cling, Is the fact that the slayer must
have carried his victim from the shed,
into the house, and placed the body
In kneeling posture at the bed. That
the woman could have crawled from
the shed to her bedroom, with the
wounds inflicted on her. Is regarded as
impossible. by Coroner Rothacher.
That the slayer's wits must have been
ldulled by liquor Is a strong probable