The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-20
He BOUGHT Wine
Arthur Sim Had "HandfuIS of
Cash." Waiter Says.
Arrests Bring About Clue to
Former TOpekan's Death.

Kansas City, Dec. 20.-Three per-
sons were under arrest here today in
the police investigation of the death
of Arthur B. Sim, wealthy oil man
of Wichita, Kansas, who was found
dead under the intercity viaduct here
yesterday.
Edna Miller and Harry Fitzpatrick
were arrested last night and early to-
day the police took into custody Jo-
seph MacOluso, who has been known
as the husband of the Miller woman.
No formal charges have been made
against any of the three.
Edna Miller. the police said, admit
ted having been with Sim until mid
night of Monday night and said she
introduced him to Fitzpatrick a
chauffeur, who drove them to several
cabarets. Macoluso is waiter. The
police hold to the theory that robbery
was the motive of the crime and that
Sim, after being stunned, was thrown,
still living from an automobile on the
viaduct to the ground below. the fall
causing his death.
DIR. r. w. Hissem, brother-in-law of
Sim. left last night for Wichita with
the body.
Stories Don't Agree.
Harry Fitzpatrick, chauffeur and
Miss Edna Miller, the woman last
known to be with Arthur B. Sim,
wealthy Wichita, Kan. oil man muir
dered here yesterday morning, were
still in the custody of the police today,
and told different stories as to how and
when they last saw Sim alive.
Fitzpatrick said he took Sim and
Miss Miller in his automobile to the
Bray hotel shortly after midnight Sim,
the chauffeur said, was intoxicated.
Fitzpatrick said he got out of motor
car and tried to help Sim into the
hotel. Sim, he said, pulled away from
him and ran across the street. Sim
clung to the back of a motor car ana
would not permit Fitzpatrick to take
him away. Fitzpatrick and Miss Miller
then drove to the jefferson hotel, he
said, and declared he did not see Sim
afterWard.
Police believe that Sim left the
Hotel Bray in company with another
man and a chauffuer, possibly Fitz-
patrick, and shortly afterward was
murdered.
Edna Miller is a good looking young
sim Talked of Death.
Sim talked of death several times
the night he and Miss Miller visited
numerous cafes, the woman told Chief
Ghent later.
Once he said he'd give anybody
$500 to kill him, that he did not have
the nerve to do it himself" she relat-
ed, adding that Sim continually talked
about his wife from whom he had
separated.
He'd been talking about his wife
all the time," she told Chief Ghent
He couldn't seem to get her off his
mind. He cried several tirnes''
+ 1t was said the three being held
/ possibly would be released if the in
vestlgaticn being made by detectives
check up with their statements.
/ Spent Money Lavishly.
Miss Miller told detectives at police
! headquarters she was at the jefferson
hotel with Sim until II o'clock Mon
day night. He bought wine, she said,
and spent his money lavishly. They
/ engaged motor car. They went to
several cabarets after leaving there.
and then to hotel. She said at 12:45
o'clock she went with Sim back to the
jefferson hotel. where she left him in
the company of man she had pre-
viously introduced him to. This mans
name, she said, she had forgotten.
! In reciting their movements Mon
day night. Miss Miller said she and
Sim went to the Bray hotel after leav-
ing the Jefferson hotel There they
registered as man and wife, she said,
using a fictitious name.
J Charles Hughes. a negro waiter at
. the jefferson grill told detectives last
night he waited upon Sim and Miss
Miller and that Sim had 'handfuls of
money" He bought nothing but
+ wine, the waiter said, and drank heay-
/ lily.
i Woman Furnishes Clue.
The arrest of Edna Miller came
after a four hours search of the DO
lice of the Kansas side and the police
of this city, guided by a woman who
, had gone to the undertaking establish
1Continued on Page Two1
100000 Atlanta store Burns.