The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-20
Mystery Of Disappearance Of
Katherine Winters
Uns0lved BY the Exhumati0n Of
. Child's Body.
LOCATED By DETECTIVES
Proves To BE bat Two Years
Old Instead Of Nine.
Father of Little One Appears
and Claims It.

Chicago, July 3o.-Another sup
posed solution Of the mysterious as
appearance Of Katherine Winters. g.
tiers Of Newcastle, apparently failed
today when q body exhumed yester-
day in the potter's field ut UrbAnA.
Ill. was identified by Nicholas Larry
as his child.
corpse was that OF the missing Win
tiers girl. who disappeared from home
in March, 1913. Dr.. Winters at New
castle. after receiving . description OF
the girl. declared that It could nor r Dc
and the Rirrs taken from the grave
was blonde.
Tho sexton Of the Urbana cemetery
| went to Newcastle to see II he could
hAd the body left In the receiving
vault IL months ago. While he and
the detectives were absent Guy Stew
art, an undertaken, said that Larry
was the man who had the child placed
in the vault.
The corpse lay in the vault more
than q year and then was buried in
tho potter's field because no one claim
| ed it.
Larry saw the body today and de-
She was two years old. he said. and
died in Jacksonville, Florida
The detectives had asserted that
they had traced the body from New
castle to Florida and thence to Urbana-
Story of the Detective.
Chicago. July 2O.-A body believed to
be that Of katherine Winters. for
whom q nationwide search has been
made for more than q year, was ex-
humed in the potter's field in q ceme-
terry at Urbana, Ill. yesterday accord
ing to a report received early today.
Detectives representing an agency OF
national reputation caused the body to
;be exhumed. Every detail Of the de-
lscription Of the missing nine-year-old
daughter Of DIR. VIM. A. Winters. q
dentist of Newcastle. Ind, tailed with
that OF the body It was reported. The
clothing she wore on the day she dis
appeared also was identified it was
said.
According to the account Of the md
ing of the body. it had lain for thirteen
months in the receiving vault OF the
lcemetery, and then had been buried
unclaimed, in the potter'e field.
The detectives arrived in Urb&na two
days ago. They told the coroners jury
u. ]. Hanmore and e. w. Davis. the
lsheriff, that they had traced the body
tof Katherine Winters to Florida and
thence to Champaign, where 1t had
Igiven minute description Of the
iclothing and person. Theodore Brown
sexton Of the cemetery. then was or
idered to open the grave.
When the body was exhumed ever
idetail corresponded with the description
that he could identify the stranger
who brought the body to Champaign
and he and the two men left immedi.
ately for Newcastle.
Placed I'm Receiving Vault.
When the body was first brought II
Urbana, in April. 1913. 1t was given b.
the stranger to Guy Stewart. an under
taker. HE told me to take care Of
for q few days and have 1t placed in I
receiving vault and that some ont
would be along to claim it" sait
Stewart. The stranger and Stewar
and placed It in tho receiving vault
. There it remained for thirteen months
Two months ago 1t was removed to tn
potter's field, according to accounts.
. Brown, the sexton. was sure that h
. would know the man who accompanies
detectives took the next train tina
, would carry them to Newcastle.
The detectives said they had trace
! the box containing tho body to a tow
I in Florida, and found that from Their
: 1t had been shipped to Champaign, II
. The man who was Transporting the DO
about registered at various places.
was said. According to Davis they ha
a complete record Of all his movement
Their description Of the body wa
] accurate" said Davis. From tn
papers they exhibited and their knowl
edge Of the case I Judge that they ar
lon the right trail. The mystery ar
lpears to be solved.
'I do not know whether the bod
is that Of the Winters girl or not" a.
serted e. w. Davis. sheriff Of Chan
paign county, over the long distane
\ telephone. The detectives who cam
here. however. think they have foun
her. believe we will positively ident
fy the body within q few hours"
I'll Says It Ii Not HIS Girl.
= II do not believe the body exhume
II at Urbana, Ill, IL that OF my litt
= girl" This was the assertion mad
= over the telephone. from NeWcast1
n Ind, by DR.. william 4. Winter