Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1914-08-20
WORSE THAN AWFUL.
Negro Chops the Life Out of Six Per
sons as They Attempt TO Flee
from Burning Building.
INNOCENT CHILDREN NOT SPARED
Stands at Door with Handax as Victims
Rush Out in Terror.

| A most shocking, the most revolving,
1.-THE most horrifying, inhuman deed was
enacted at the noon hour last Saturday.
Aug. 10, at what is termed bungalow
located short distance south of Spring
Green and in Iowa county, and about
twenty miles north of Mineral Point.
A Barbados negro named Julian
Carleton was the star actor in this the
final crimson chapter to the free love
romance of Frank Lloyd Wright, the
world-famed architect, and his soulmate,
Mrs. Edwin H. Cheney, who since her
divorce had adopted her maiden name,
Mamah Borthwick. This bungalow
home for the eccentric couple was es-
tablished and inhabited by them about
five years ago. 1t was an odd and at
tractive structure costing $50. 900, stu
aeed an beautiful spot overlooking
the Wisconsin river. They hailed from
Oak Park, Chicago suburb.
Particulars of the Verifying affair as
lgathered run like this; The negro, en-
nloyed as cook and butler, maddened it
thought because of the discharge of
hiinself and wife, locked the doors of
the structure Immediately after Mamah
Borthwick and her little son and dsugh-
ter and employees had sat down to
luncheon. The negro then poured
about the place from without flood of
gasoline which rushed in under the
screened windows and doors and then
he tossed lighted match into the
stream. AS fire raced through the
house the 'devilish niger" stood at 3
roint of vantage guarding door and
window. With his handax he cut his
victims down one by one as they
plunged from the burning structure.
Mamah Borthwick was the first to
be cleaved. Her two little children,
n artna of II years and John of 8
,,sttIgrs. who joined her only two weeks
OBVIOUSLY, were the next slaughtered.
IN all the black william killed six and in
flicted injuries on three others. The
other three killed were Emil Drodeiie,
so years old. draftman Of Milwaukee;
thomas Bronker, so years old, coach
man and laborer of Ridgeway town
ship; Ernest Weston, 10 years old, chore
boy. Those injured are VIM. Weston,
40 years old. carpenter; Herbert Fritz,
20 years old. craftsman of Chicago;
David Lindblum, SIS years old gardener.
1t is understood that all OF those now
dead were not killed instantly. One or
two survived for short time, and one
charred body, that of boy, was found
in the smouldering heap of the building
which was consumed by the flames.
Mr.. Wright was in Chicago, having
gone there the Tuesday previous.
The countryside had become aroused
by telephone and the volumes of smoke,
and within an hour hundreds were at
the scene OF fnuruer.
Sheriff Williams of Dodgeville ard
his deputies were hurried to the scene
by phone cali, and when they arrived
there found the farmers and others
beating the brush land and corn fields
for miles in every direction. Within an
hour the negro's wife was found hiding
IN clump of bushes three miles from
the scene of horror. Ii was about dusk
.uhen men searching the ruins heard a
noiee in the furnace in portion Of the
house some distance from the burned
rooms. Upon being informed Of this
Sheriff Williams pulled open the fur
mace door and there discovered the
negro. AS he was being dragged out
| he moaned the one word "acid' and
}feignea unconsciousness. The sheriff
and aids hurried off to Dodgeyille by
| auto with their loathsome prize 10
avoid his being lynched. The negro's
wife was also taken care of by the
/ SnGrlH party.
At Tower Hill, short distance away,
lis the private school conducted by the
Misses Jones, sisters of Rev. JenKip
Lloyd Jones OF Chicago. who CHANGED
TO be there on a vacation. He at once
became personally active in directing
the search and calming the excited
throug.
| The Rev. Jones is an uncle Of Mr..
Wright, and Andrew Porter, residing
half mile from the bungalow, is a
| brother-in-Iaw OF Wright's.
All the farmers and their families
| for miles around were acquainted with
| the story of the Wright "spiritua
begira, +" and the Glove bungalow" was
| show place. beauty spot by nature
and made more attractive by the skill
Oh flower cultivation, etc. But the IN
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