Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-08-22
MRS. MAMAH 5oRTHWIcK ANA
TWO CHILDREN SLAIN NEAp
SPRING GREEN, Wis
MURDERER USES HATCRsr
Wounds Four More in FranL
Wright's ungaIow-Found His
ing in the Fire Box of
Heating Plant.

the victims of an Infatuated negro .,t..
welded his blood dripping az haosase
he had been discharged as cool, in +,.
love cottage made famous by Franz
Lloyd Wright and his soul mato@
Mrs. Mamah Bouton Borthwick
One lone negro, Julian Carlton in
the guise of a death dealing monster
was the man who on SATURDAY s,e,.
his employer, her children, SERVANT
and helpmates of her husband, one Of
the greatest architects in the nation
and then fired the building.
The dead are:
MISS MAMMAL BORTHWIcK
aged 35, who was Mrs. Edwin H Che.
ney, until Wright fed with her from
Chicago to his hilltop studio here two
years ago.
JOHN CHENEY, aged u. her son.
MARTHA CHENEY, aged 8. her
daughter
EMIL BRODELLE, aged 26. Milwau.
kee, draughtsman employed bv
Wright.
ERNEST WESTON, aged Is. son Of
William Weston, foreman at the
Wright home
The injured are;
Tom Brunkert, aged 60, laborer
Spring Green, head laid open and
burned, will die
David Lindbohm, gardener, badly
cut about head; dying.
William Weston, aged 65. foreman
badly cut on head, will recover.
Herbert Fritz, aged %, draughts
man, badly burned, will recover.
The wholesale murder took place
during the noon meal and early in the
night the negro was captured when
Sheriff John T. Williams of DodgeyiUe
found him hiding in the firebox OF
the boiler in the cellar of the love
| cottage"
Mrs. Borthwick and her two chill
dren, John and Margaret, were eating
dinner on the north of the bungalow.
meal which the negro and his wife
had prepared. Without a word Of
warning Carlton crept upon the IN
suspecting trio, sinking the Ratchet
into Mrs. Borthwicks brain. practi-
cally splitting her head in two parts
She dropped to the floor, dead The
two children started to run, but the
powerful black was too swift for them.
catching both and killing them with a
few blows of his ak.
Carlton rushed back into the house.
and threw a blazing can of gasoline
into the dining room where the en-
plOyes on the Wright estate were sit
ting at the table. The fire shut off all
escape from the dining room except
by single window, and outside this
exit the bloodthirsty negro had sta
toned himself AS the inmates
climbed out of the window, Carlton
swung his ak with unerring aim and
laid them low Brodelle and Weston
were instantly killed as they tried TO
climb out. Brunker made a quick dash
| and got by the negro with slight In
jury, but the black pursued him aud
chopped him down
Neighboring farmers were attract
ed by the flames bursting from the
| bungalow, and a bucket brigade extin-
guished the fire after the entire east
wing had been consumed.
Sheriff Williams was searching IN
the basement of the bungalow and
heard Cartons voice crying for wa
ter He located the slayer in the
heating plant firebox, where he still
gripped the bloody ak. Threats OF
lynching Carlton were made by tae
large crowd attracted to the scene. OUT
| the officers drew weapons and placed
the negro in an automobile taxing
him to the Dodgeville Jail
The Wright bungalow Became
famous when the noted architect ana
Mrs. Borthwick took up their resi-
dence there in December, 1911. 500"
after a series of sensational events 10
Oak Park, fashionable Chicago suo-
urb. that caused the breaking UP %.
two homes. Wright and Mrs N2rlE
wick. then Mrs. Cheney. eloped 70 1u-
rope in 1910. and upon their return
Mrs. Cheney secured a divorce IAs
| coming of the couple to their i.N'
county love cottage" aroused NE
neighborhood and there were taFe''5
of raid on the bungalow -Aa-
/ time
DR. W. s. Lincoln of Dodgevil'f "'.
is attending the negro. announce.
that he would probably die from ~
| effects of the muriatic acid Wl.ea ~
/ took after hiding in the furnace
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