South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-23
Prosecutor and Sheriff Visit
Wyatt in Hopes of Finding
Additional TeStimOny-to
Hold Post Morten.
LAST FEW HOURS OF
MANS LIFE IN DARK
Otto Raoder Says Last Time He
Saw Love Was at Five
O'CIoCk-Heard of Death
Four Hours Later.

Otto Raoder. sought by both Cor
oner T. j. Swantz and Pros. Chester
Montgomery as the one witness VINO
might be able 10 cast some light upon
the supposed murder of Harry +.
Love- Wakarusa telegraph operator,
at Wyatt Saturday night, told his story
at the inquest presided over by the
coroner in the Office of Sheriff Bailey
Monday morning.
AT o'clock Saturday evening", he
said. my brother Roy and 1 saw Love
asleep in the rear seat OF a surrey
stored in the rear of George A. Eel
tons saloon. FELTON, and / had carried
him out there after he had gone to
sleep in the saloon. We carried him to
the shed about o'clock and laid him
out on the cement floor. When my
brother and l saw him at o'clock he
had climbed, l suppose, into the sur
rey."
Despite other stories said TO have
been told by witnesses OF the alterca-
tion between Love and Raoder in the
saloon, RaOder maintained stOuty that
he had not struck Love with his fist.
Tells of Trouble.
The whole trouble started Friday
night" said Raoder. when Love stop
ped Roy and 1 on the street and asked
Roy for % cents. When he was re-
fused he drew knife and made as if
TO strike at Roy with it. Roy and L
both ran home. / did not see Love
again until the next afternoon in the
saloon.
Il went into Felton's first 1t was
about o'clock, L think, when Love
came in. He sat down at the table
facing me and asked nfe for 10 cents.
l refused and slapped him.
"'You don't get any money from
me, you bum,' / said 10 him.
HE did not fall, but picked up his
chair and placed il against the wall.
He went to sleep and about 4 o'clock
FELTON, asked me if | would not help
to carry him out. We carried him into
the shed as l have told you"
Pros. Montgomery. Coroner Swantz
and Sheriff Bailey are seeking to dis
cover what If anything could have
happened to Love between o'clock
and or o'clock, when RaOder
claims he first heard that Love was
dead.
First He Knew of Death.
FELTON, told me at about 8 o'clock
that he was dead" said Raoder. THAT
was the first l knew of his death"
George A. FELTON,, the Wyatt saloon
keeper in whose place of business the
alteration occurred, was also ques-
toned Monday morning. His story
differed to some extent from that of
RaOder.
Witnesses had Informed the coroner
and the prosecutor that Raoder had
struck Love with his fist and had
kicked him after he fell to the floor
These allegations. said Raoder, were
absurd. He declared that he had done
nothing but slap him in the face.
A post mOrtem examination of
loves body will be held Monday af-
ternOOn. at which time the coroner
Will search for an unnatural death
The mans body. according TO the cor
oner and other witnesses, bears few
marks of violence, none of which. how
ever, would be sufficient TO cause
death.
One eve is blackened. his lip is cut,
there is a confusion behind his left
ear. and several scratches on his face
The knuckles of one hand are bruised
and torn, as if he had struck out in
his own defense. RaOder. however,
declared tnat there was no struggle in
the salOon-not even when he and
FELTON, carried the man into the shed
in the rear.
Several of those bruises might have
been obtained" said RaOder. when
he was thrown OFF the Sis o'clock
passenger train at Wyatt He got on
~ rain just as il was pulling out
er row with the crew, was