The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-08-14
AWFUL crime
ADDITIONAL DETAILS OF THE
KIDNAPPING AND MURDER OF
NEBRASKA GIRL.

Fremont, Neb., Aug. 14.-Louise
Mick, the Schuyler girl who was muir
dered by her %kidnaper, was a rather
pretty brunei, who had a fortune of
$4,000 awaiting delivery to her on
her 18th birthday. She was the
daughter of the late George Mick, a
wealthy retired farmer. The girl
possessed an unusually quiet, retiring
disposition, but she had a number of
intimate girl friends among whom
she was a high favorite. She lived
with her mother, Mrs. Mary Mick.
and an aunt, Miss Regotzky. The
three occupied a vine covered house
somewhat isolated from surrounding
homes by a large yard and large
trees.
Testimony at the inquest developed
the reasons why the women made no
cutlery when the kidnaper entered.
The man climbed in through an up
stairs window after ascending on a
ladder. The window was open. Miss
Regotzky, who slept alone upstairs,
| rose up in bed. The stranger warned
| her to be silent, adding that he would
| not harm her If she made no dis
turbance. Then he bound the woman
| and went downstairs. Louise Mick
| and her mother occupied a bed to-
| gether. He awoke them and gave
| them a similar warning about pre-
| serving silence. Then he searched
| the house for valuables. Later he re-
| eturned to the bed room occupied by
| Miss Mick and her mother and de-
| manded that the girl accompany
| him. She pleaded to be allowed to
| dress, but the kidnaper replied that
| he had no time for that. He half led,
half dragged the young girl from her
room, passing out through a rear
door.
Frank Heidi, who is accused of the
crime, is a distant relative of the girl
by marriage. He Is so years of age
and is the head of a family. His
wife resides in Omaha now. Heldt
was SEN to the penitentiary from
lColfax county in 1887 for attempting
to wreck a Union Pacific pay train.
He spent seven years in prison. Late
" he returned to Schuyler and went
to work in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
mill. He moved to Omaha only a
short time ago.
For its shocking details the crime
Is one of the worst ever known In
Nebraska. The kidnaper led the
young girl a distance of more than
six miles. in a detour of the town.
THE girl was clad only in her night
gown. with an old coat drawn around
her shoulders. She wore a pair of
old slippers, much too large for her,
into which pages torn from a maya
-. ..A.1 Cd, ecnI IN kann than from
coming off. On the Tim Bailey farm.
north of Schuyler. the couple hid dur
ing most of Monday in a deserted
house. Monday evening they ven
tured forth to mail a letter to Miss
Mick's mother. The letter written by
the girl, urged Mrs. Mick to give the
man money. 1t was mailed in a rural
box on Ed Eller's farm, which is op-
posite the Bailey place. Near mid
might Monday-Tuesday, the couple
again ventured forth from the house
and walked along the road opposite
the Bailey farm. Some men from
Fremont, who were passing with
farm implements, driving by night In
order to reach the Platte bridge
south of Schuyler before 1t closed fol
repairs, happened to see them
Reaching Schuyler, these men gave
the alarm. A posse hurried to thu
farm. Later the Schuyler fire alarm
was sounded, as a means OF arouslnt
more posses. The kidnaper. dragging
| the girl with him, sought refuge in {
/, shed back of Tim Bailey's house. bu'
! Bailey saw them and called for then
to halt. When they ran, Bailey sho'
| at the man. The couple ran into tn
cornfeld, which by this time wal
nearly surrounded by armed citizens
1t is supposed that the kidnapel
/, saw the im~possibility of escape witt
, the girl and reasoned that he did no
{ dare leave her behind, to furnish evi
! dence against him. So he strangle'
! and beat her to death and with
shovel stolen from the barn on tn
Bailey place, covered the body owe
with dirt. Seeking to escape. thel
from the cornfield, he passed through
/, a clump of trees, out to the road. u
the road were a number OF men LEI
: by Liveryman Welch of Schuyler
! The fugitive pulled a pistol n ha
the drop on the posse, but In
parley that followed was seized fron
behind by Marshal Bartonek. BLOOD
stains on his hands were not OF
served, because of the darkness, an
the captors of the kidnaper believe
[ the girl to be still alive, somewher
in the cornfield. A half hundred me
7 penetrated the field. calling out tn
girls namn ae they went. Fran