The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-09-01
Alleged Part Of Plot In
Murder Case
WHEREIN PASTOR WAS KILLED
mysterious Murder Said To
Be An 0utcrOpping Of
European War.
WOMEN INVOLVED, 1T is SAID

Gary, Ind, Aug. 2S.--Develop-
ments came thick and fast to-day in
the mysterious murder of Rev. Ed
mund II. A. Kayser. pastor of st.
Johns Evangelical Church, business
man and German propsgandist. who
was bound and shot to death in his
parsonage in the lonely Toileston
marshes Tuesday night. Briefly
summarized, these facts were
brought out: ---.--.--.---~ --
Confession by Otto Kramer, an
employee of the Aetna Powder Com
pany, that he had been offered s2,-
600 to place bomb in the powder
mills, where it would touch off a
building containing 20 tons of gun
cotton. One of these men was a
German officer or a member of the
German nobility and the other told
Krames that they had been directed
to him by his good friend in Gary.
intimating broadly that the friend
was Kayser.
Discovery that the cord used to
bind Kayser was not window cord,
as at first supposed, but is of pecu-
liar make, sold in only one store in
Gary and evidently carried to the
parsonage by the murderers.
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get their first trace of the slayers.
Arrest and secret questioning of
two Bulgarian women who are sup
posed to know something of the case.
Their identity and the nature of
their information was carefully
guarded by offlcials.
Anonymous letters to Chief of Po-
lice Heintz to moderate his activities
in seeking the slayers of the preach
.er, under penalty of receiving the
same treatment accorded Kayser.
Discovery that heavy blood
splotches on the stove where the
murder was committed, and at a
considerable distance from the par
sonage. were not that of the preach
er. indicating that one. at least. of
his assailants had been wounded.
Arrest of two men, both of Kay
ser's nationality and members of the
Saxon verein, who are said to have
written the vilifying and threatening
letters to the preacher. These let
tiers had to do with his alleged ac-
tons with women and certain real
estate deals.
General belief that at least two
persons from Chicago know much of
the inside of the entire mystery and
are covering up"
Other minor points in the case
came to light to-day. but these are
the high lights. Taking any one of
them as a starting point IT may lead
to the motives and murderers of the
preacher. Over and above every
thing else to-day was the constant
hint to the offcials by anonymous
letters, anonymous telephone mes
sages and whispered tips to look
for the women in the case"
Private detectives and investiga-
tors employed by the German propa-
gandists insist that Kayser was slain
by an agent of the allies, and that
there can be no other angle to the
murder.
German papers of Chicago make
this assertion editorially. and all the
investigators for the propagandists
are working on this theory alone. ig-
noring everything that points in any
other direction.
On the other. hand, those whose.
sympathies are with the allies. are
quite as positive that Kayser was
slain by his own people, and that
women and money We're both in
yolyed. They urge that the case be
pursued from every viewpoint and
that the truth be brought out. alleg-
ing IL will show nothing more than
the Staying of domineering man
who had become intolerable to GER
tain members of his own race.
These represent the extreme views
cf the propagandists and the people
who are opposed to the German
propaganda.
Charles Miller. chief engineer at
the Aetna plant confirms the story
Ted By Otto Cramer and extraordi-