Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-01
Detective is to Lead Shov-
ell Brigade to Supposed
Burial Plot.
NEW EVIDENCE TALKED
Mr.. and Mrs. Winters and For
mer Boarder Are Charged
With Felony.

Newcastle, Ind, June defective
Abel, employed TO investigate the dis
| appearance of Catherine Winters, to-
! day filed an affidavit and information
| in the circuit court charging DIR. Win
| ters and wife and w. II. Cooper, for
mer roomer at the Winters home, witD
conspiracy to commit a felony.
Later Winters and his wife we're
| rearrested charged with conspiracy to
comrGit murder and burn the body of
Catherine. Both were released on
bonds OF $1,000 each. Cooper was al
| ready in Jail in default of bail.
The Winters and Cooper were ar
rested Saturday charged with con-
spiracy to commit a felony. The Win
ters' obtained $4,000 bond each.
Search for the body of Catherine
Winters, who disappeared March 20.
1913, will be started today in a lonely
swamp on a farm four miles west of
this city.
A year ago the owner of the farm
found a shovel lying beside a mound
of newly turned earth. He took the
shovel to his home and forgot the in
cident.
The scene was recalled vividly to
his mind yesterday when he read the
story of the search of the home of DIR.
William A. Winters for trace of the
missing girl. He had been told that
many people no longer believed that
the girl had been kidnapped, but feared
that she had been murdered.
Reported to Detective.
The farmer reported finding the
Il
tective. who has been conducting |
search for the body of the girl. and |
plans were arranged by Mr. Abel and |
Mayor ]. Leb Watkins to search in the
swamp. The shovel bore the mark of
the Big Four railroad for which w. r.
Cooper, who has been arrested on a
charge of conspiracy to commit fell
ony in connection with GATHERINGS dis
formerly worked as a tele-
graph operator.
Dr. Winters and his wife, who were
on bonds Saturday afternoon
after they had been charged with con-
sI:Iing to commit a felony, will be
taken into custody again today, ac-
cording to the statement of William r.
Myers, the prosecuting attorney for
Henry county.
Affidavits filed Friday with Mayor
Watkins which caused the arrest of
DR.. Winters and his wife will be pre-
sented to Circuit Judge Jackson today, ,
Myers declared, with the
that bench warrants be issued :
charging a more serious offense. Coop
ar still is in Jail, being unable to fur
lish bond of $4,000.
Abel Recites Discoveries.
Mr.. Abel outlined the discoveries
which he made in the basement of the r
Winters home. and gave short his h
ory of his career to Offset stories that a
Ie was an amateur" who had taken 4
ID the case for the sake of notoriety. %
After ! took charge of the work at Il
he request OF Mayor Watkins and
thers 2 soon exhausted every pos Il
ible clew TO the girls whereabouts if W
he were alive. | then turned atten- 81
ion to the home of the parents and v
Ound inside OF a cement block in par N
tion of the cellar red sweater SINH "
lr TO the one worn by Catherine the
ay she disappeared. The sweater was al
,rn and apparently burned, as if it lie
ad been pulled from fire.
Next / found a red undershirt
hich evidently had been worn by a
ne-armed man of a build correspond b
* to that of Cooper. Cooper has but IT
ne arm, the lost member having been W
splaced by a wooden arm" II
A hair ribbon also was found in the ID
sment block and all three pieces of W
1parel were stained with what ap- ec
cared to be blood. IN
81 have been unable to learn of any III
otive for killing the child,' Mr.. Abel or
i'd
The prosecution IS not placing all II
,pes of conviction in the discovery in n
e cellar of GATHERINGS home, accord
& to Prosecuting Attorney Myers. He
i'd there were other important facts
hich would be brought TO light Tues
" when DR. and Mrs. Winters are
before Mayor Watkins. who
Is as police magistrate here. -
Mayor Watkins has been the leader
the search for Catherine Winters
ice her disappearance. He was
med by a committee as custodian OF
fund which WAS to be raised by NOV
: picture entertainments and pub Pr
subscriptions to prosecute the by
arch. an
Sentiment Is Divided. We
Sentiment I'm the city is nearly SIl
lally divided. Many OF the citizens int
angry over the tactics employed by SO