Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-06-11

Sheriff Harry c. Wheeler at Tomb
stone saying that Kermeen had come
through"
The murder of Miss Frances White,
a Jewess, in Kennett last April was
not discovered for over two days
after the crime was committed Her
front door was padlocked, and it was
assumed that she was away from
home from April 18th, when she was
last seen On April 18th. strong
odors coming from the crib led the
officers to investigate. They broke
open the front door and found the
woman dead in her bed She had
been murdered, and had dent in
her skull as though made by the blow
Of hammer She had died without
a struggle. Nothing in the room was
disturbed Money in an open trunk
was left untouched.
The murderer had got two days the
start OF the officers. Suspicious were
directed toward two Walter
Kermeen. who was last seen with her
on the night of the murder, and a
Swede named Max, who was a dis
carded lover of the Jewess.
The officers made diligent search
for the two, but nothing came of It,.
and the murder of Frances White was
dismissed by the public as an un-
solved mystery.
But City Marshal w. w. Middleton
did not let go. Some two weeks ago
he received a copy of the Bisbee,
I Ariz.. Review containing an account
/ of the capture of Walter Kermeen in
I III Paso. and his return in charge of
/ officers to Tombstone. the county
seat. on the charge of numbering J.
f. Harrell in the outskirts of Bisbee
on May 7th. The paper stated fur
ther that Kermeen had confessed that
he killed Harrell--that he shot Har
rell through the head twice and took
from him watch. diamond ring and
some money.
City Marshal Middleton was struck
with the name Kermeen, and that
the murder of Harrell was somewhat
similar to the murder of Frances
White. He wrote to the Tombstone
sheriff, together with District Attor
ney Chenoweth, describing the sup
posed murder of Miss Frances White
The description was minute. A few
days later Middleton and Chenowetf
received a wire that stated that tht
man in jail in Tombstone fitted th'
description exactly. Furthermore
Kermeen had with him card photo
graph of the Kennett playhouse and ;
, pennant given as an advertisement
by a Kennett store. These two al
, ticles indicated that the Arizona mur
, derer had been in Kennett, perhap
: recently.
city Marshal Middleton and Dis
}. trict Attorney Chenoweth kept thei
A own counsel, and in the meantim
a wrote to Sheriff Wheeler in Toni
K stone, giving him all the details c
o the Kennett murder and the conne'
r tion Kermeen probably had with /
d The result is that yesterday the Ar
l. zona sheriff, according to the tell
a gram received here last evening, &c
e a full confession from Kermeen-
q confession that he killed Miss Fral
T. ces White with a hammer
A singular coincidence in names
to be noted. Kermeen was a pip
filter in Kennett. City Marshal Mi
dleton got some information from
w. Harrel. who is employed at Il
Mammoth mine, as to Kermeen
probable point of fight, lmagir
city Marshal Middletons surprise
learn that the man Kermeen co
n fessed numbering in Arizona was all
named Harrell--J. f. Harrell. c.
HarrelI. of Kennett, does not kno
j. f. Harrell, nor had he ever hea
of him He has no relatives in A
% zona as far as he ever heard Of