The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-26
HAS NO PARALLEL
Murder Charge Against Youth
in Glass by Self.
Stories He Told Comrades Used
Against Hinterliter.
AIR BUBBLES In GIRL s VEINS
Heart Almost Exploded, Pune
tured at. Post MOrtem.
Find instrument Used, Sand
Prints of Girl's Hand.

Olney, ILL.,, July 6.-When a tiny
air bubble burst under pressure of a
physician's knife, tho first chain of
evidence against Roy Hinterliter. who
brought the body of Miss Elizabeth
Radcliffe, who died while buggy rid
ing with him. to a sanitarium here last
Friday night, was said by the prose-
cutting authorities to be welded. The
death of the Radcliffe girl is said by
medical authorities to be without par
allel, If it develops crime actually
was committed. Hinterliter was held
to the grand jury without bond yester-
day by a coroner's jury, who held him
responsible for the girls death.
Last Friday evening the couple went
buggy riding. The girl is said to have
died beneath an old elm tree several
miles from town. Doctors say the
girl was dead when she was placed in
the buggy for the ride to the sani-
tarium.
At an autopsy. no marks of violence
were found, but it developed that the
girl was soon to become mother.
Careful examination failed to reveal
any attempt at an Illegal operation,
not trace of poison was found.
Then one of the examining physi-
clans stuck a probe into an artery
There was a pour almost 1naudipie
as a bubble burst 1t was said only
two things known to medical science
would cause embolisrn in the arteries
faulty injection with hypodermic
needle or. lesion. of a lung. &c..
Heart Full of Air.
The body was examined carefully
There were no needle marks. There
was no lesion of the lungs. The brain
WAS found to be full of water. The
heart, when pierced, almost exploded
Thus matters stood when a man
from a neighboring town came to State
Attorney Morriss office with a pack
age containing IN instrument used in
he had found one of the boy friends
of Hinterliter picking it up under an
old elm tree, a landmark in the vicin-
ity, had taken 1t away from him and
brought it to town, thinking it might
have some bearing on the case.
Sheriff West visited the spot mon
toned. He found where a horse had
been tied and marks of a struggle in
the sandy soil, the imprint of a girls
hand and of boys shoes. Instead of
using the instrument as intended, it is
maintained by physicians that he used
it as an untitled hypodermic needle
and punctured a small artery. Physi-
clans say the boy removed the needle
of the catheter and blew into it and
that this caused DEATH. To a friend
who saw Hinterliter after he had
taken the girl to the sanitarium Fri
day, the latter is quoted as saying:
| Admits 81 Am in Bad"
II am in bad Take my rig home
and tell mother 1 don't know when 1
will be home. but to expect me-
The work of producing evidence
progressed far enough to warrant
Hinterliter being held to the grand
jury. The authorities refuse to dis
close all of the evidence obtained but
declare they have the confessions of
several boy friends of Hinterliter. This
evidence will be placed before the
grand jury when the case is presented
to it in November.
Wealthy relatives of Roy Hinterliter
who is young farmer boy, today are
making strenuous efforts to secure his
release on bail The relatives propose
to secure a hearing of the evidence
with a view to having the bail fixed
| by the circuit court ~
Hinterliter Denies Charge
| Hinterliter, in jail here, still refuses
to throw any light on the alleged m ur-
der, and maintains that he knows
| nothing of the case other than the girl
| tainted while she was ridip> l,i,,,