The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-08-21
NEGRO KILLS FIVE
IN LOVE COTTAGE
MRS. MAMAH BORTHWlCK AND
TWO CHILDREN SLAIN NEAR
SPRING GREEN, WIS.
MURDERER USES RATCHET
Wright's Bungalow-Found Hid.
Ing In the Fire Box Of
Heating Plant.

dead, two dying and three injured are
the victims of an Infatuated negro who
welded his blood dripping ak because
he had been discharged as cook in the
'love cottage" made famous by Frank
Lloyd Wright and his "soul mate"
mrs. Mamah Boutonl Borthwick.
One lone negro, Julian Carlton, in
the guise of a death dealing monster,
was the man who on Saturday slew
mis- employer, her children, servants
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 IL, her son.
MARTHA CHENEY, aged 9, her
daughter.
EMIL BRODELLE, aged 26, Milwau-
kee, draughtsman employed by
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 Dodgeville
found him hiding in the frebox 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,
a meal which the negro and his wife
had prepared. Without a word of
warning Carlton crept upon the I'M
suspecting trio, sinking the Ratchet
into Mrs. Borthwick's 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,
of 1;x,o
into the dining room where the en-
ployes on the Wright estate we're 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 IL
Jury, but the black pursued him and
chopped him down.
Neighboring farmers were attract
ed by the flames bursting from the
bungalow, and 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 the
large crowd attracted to the scene, but
the officers drew weapons and placed
the negro in an automobile, taking
him to the Dodgeville Jail.
The Wright bungalow became
Mrs. Borthwick took up their resi-
dence there in December, 1911, soon
after series of sensational events in
Oak Park, a fashionable Chicago sub
urb, that caused the breaking up of
two homes. Wright and Mrs. Berth
wick, then Mrs. Cheney, eloped to Eu
rope in 1910, and upon their return
Mrs. Cheney secured a divorce. The
coming Of the couple to their Iowa
county love cottage" aroused the
neighborhood and there were threats
of a raid on the bungalow at that
time.
DR.. w. S. Lincoln of Dodgeville, who
is attending the negro, announced
that he would probably die from the
effects of the muriatic acid which he
took after hiding in the furnace