South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-17
-Four Pcrsons in Housc.

Four Persons i'm House.
There were -FOUR persons in the
house on the night that Hazel Mack
lin came unaccompanied 10 Spring
brook park. There were two inmates,
Marie Myers and Mabel Brown. the
Logan woman and Silas Eversole.
The latter called the home of Mrs.
Charles c. Miller, .744 Harrison av.,
Hazel Macklin's aunt, and declared
that ne was the Dunkard man who
had advertised for a girl TO do general
homework and care for baby which
advertisement the Macklh girl had
answered.
II will have full details in my pos
session some time Tuesday evening or
Wednesday. that this was the situa-
ton that night"
The Logan wOmans house was raid
ed in late October or early November,
and shortly afterward the inmates
left the city. one of them, the one
20 whom is given the credit for the
story that Eversole talked over the
telephone, is said to have gone from
this city 10 Flint, in which city an IN
vestigation will be started in the houe
of locating her.
eff Cora Logan Brandon was seen
Thursday afternoon or Thursday
night" said Schwartz, there is no
chance that Eversole could have COM
nlitted the crime. He is known TO
have been at his home in Bristol all
day Thursday. and was arrested there
Thursday afternoon
Saw Woman Thursday.
"F'lack is the only man we nave
discovered who claims 70 have seen
the Logan woman alive Thursday,
said Detective Sergt. Barnhart, who
has supervised the police investiga-
ton into the wCman's death. I'VE DO
not doubt that Flack believes he saw
the woman that day, but if he did. he
is the only person in South Bend VINO
did"
However. il was stated at the sheriff's
office that a drug clerk in Eliels drug
store on w Washington av., had seen
the woman pass along on the other
side of the street He claimed that
she walked past the Oliver hotel with
a bucket or pail in her hand. This
story is to be investigated by the po-
lice and sheriff.
Coroner r. j. Swantz and the sheriff
declared Tuesday morning that there
was no possibility that Eversole had
been murdered in his cell A demon
strait was given by the coroner IN
the cell in which the mans body was
found hanging. showing how the man /
might have loosely trussed himself
with towels and blankets and then
stepped down from steel compart- /
mentin one corner of the cell, with
the three foot length of lead pipe
about his neck.
Found Two Pencils.
ATTY. Charles Davey is mistaken /
when he says that there was no pencil /
found i'm Eversole's CELL said Coroner
Swantz. "and when he declares that
Eversoles pencil was taken away from
him with his other personal effects. |
When we searched the cell Monday 4
morning, five minutes after the BODY
was found, there were two pencils
one was in his coat pocket and the
other was on the floor. The latter had
been sliced through lengthways until /
the lead was bare. 1t II with TINS ttat
he is supposed TO have scrawled the
note on the torn yellow sack.
Sheriff Bailey exhibited TO news |
paDer men a receipt signed by Ever /
sole which showed that his personal
effects had been returned 10 his dauSh-
ter. Cora. last Friday, after his arrest
Thursday. =,
"He had a pencil at that time"
said Bailey, besides other smaller ar
ticles OF a personal nature which he
had asked me if ne could not keep"
According TO Bailey Eversole had
said Saturday morning that II was on
April Z. 1914. that his beard had been
shaved off in Elkhart, Ind. However |
i. =. Greenan. son of James Greenan, |
whose farm near Bristol, Ind, Ever !
sole traded for, exclaimed upon seeing
a published picture Of Eversole taken /
after he had committed suicides:
His Beard Was Missing.
"Why did titeV shave off his beard! /
He does not look natural without MS
beard"
The younger Greenan was said TO
have seen Eversole every day for |
nearly a year after he had moved TO
Bristol
That Eversole was in Milwaukee at
the home of police officer during the
latter part of August and the early |
part OF September as was published IN
The News-Times last Sunday. was de-
clared 20 be true by Sheriff BAILEY. (
Kuespert had declared that an in
vestigatlon in the latter city had dis !
closed that it was in April 1914, that
Eversole had been in Milwaukee. |
and said that Eversole's statement TO
that effect was true.
Deputy Sheriff John Z. Gully. who !
Eversole and his son in |
Bristol. declared that he was in town I
with a man who had seen Eversole a I
few days before ne moved away from /
his home near Miller's stop, and that
this man claimed that at that time I
EversOle was still wearing MS beard. /
When he came back from his
trip, said this man. his beard had I
been shaved off, and ne Immediately
moved away from his home. We later
learned that he had gone 10 Bristol
Did Not Write Note.
Mrs. Melinda Eversole. wife OF the
suicide. remained firm in her conten-
ton Tuesday that the note supposed
TO have been written by Eversole 10
his family on a torn bit of yellow
sack. was not in her husbands hand
writing Eversole'S signature was
signed 20 an order TO turn his per-
sonal affairs 10 his daughter. Cora
and after a comparison OF the note
with the signature. Coroner Swantz
said that they were almost Identical
ITO make the matter more Ger
tain" said the coroner. Il will obtain
letters written hy Eversole and COM
pare The handwriting
Charles y. Davey, retained as an at
torney by Mrs. Eversole. was not
liked 10y Eversole himself. according
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