The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-17
After Being Captured, Chicago
Man Dives through a Win
dow on a Train.


CHICAGO, Sept. 16.--J. Maurice Pet
tilt wants to join his murdered wife
on the spiritual plane" He wants TO
die. He will kill himself at the first
opportunity. He even looks forward
TO hanging as a desired release from
material existence.
Petit denied to Or. Thomas Shana-
han at the house Of correction. Chi
cago that he attempted to escape
when he made his mad leap from /.
mile-a-minute train.
81 wasn't trying to get away from
the law" he said as he lay on a cot
in the emergency ward, Il was try
ing to get away from my material ex-
istence. l was trying TO kill myself
want to join her on the spiritual
plane"
Plunges from Train.
He made his plunge at a point a
mile and a half east Of Michigan City,
Ind. while he was being brought back
to Chicago on limited train of tho
Michigan Central railroad by Detective
Theodore Breternitz. He had been
caught near Detroit, where he fled af-
ter the murder.
PettItt broke from his captor and
dove head foremost through the open
window of a Mushroom Of the reat
coach. The train was brought to a
stop and Petit found mile in the
rear OF the train, seriously hurt, but
preparing to walk away.
His escape from instant death is
probably due to to the fact that he
landed on sandy stretch alongside
the roadbed. II was his second at
tempt OF the day 10 escape. Earlier
he tried TO escape in Detroit.
AT the same hour his girl bride, the
pretty Katheryn Keiser Petit, whose
throat he cut last Thursday in a
fit OF religious mania, was lying in
n North Clark street undertaking par
lor here, and chums and schoolmates
Of the slain girl wept disconsolately
during funeral services.
Petit Is now under guard at the
Bridewell hospital. He was found to
have punctured lung, broken ribs
and an injured jaw, but he has a
chance TO recover
Chief Of Detectives Charles L. Lar
talked to Petit at the hospital
Why He Killed Girl.Bride.
II wanted to keep her pure and spir-
itual," he told Larkin. when killed
her did It materially, not spiritually.
She still lives as you and | do. She
is not dead
"She was fine girl, and we had
no trouble. did II to save her pur-
ity. She saw the razor in my hand
when came after her / did 1t in a
fiji Of insanity. was insanely jealous
Of my wife. put my arm around
her neck and told her was going
to do it. asked her to write note
before ] did 1t, but she never did. She
never fell to the floor. had my arm
around her neck. After | did 1t laid
her on the floor just as easy as could,
wanted to kill her when cut her.
"She is not dead. You are not dead
Il am not dead / wanted her 10
enter the spiritual life not on this
plane. know that her material life
is dead, but not her spiritual life.
"It's all my fault. L alone am TO
blame. Her mother was very good
other men called and talked to her.
was Jealous of them. l was wrong
in that"
Petit was taken in custody after
he had asked for shelter at farm
house four miles south of BEDFORD,
Mich. ]. W. Route, the farmer, OBJ
served that the stranger acted queerly
and notified the sheriff's office.
Theodore Breternitz, Chicago de-
tective, who was in Detroit on other
police business. was sent out TO the
farm with a Detroit detective. Petit
readily admitted his Identity and his
guilt.
Pawns Ring after Killing Bride.
Petit, according to his mother, Mrs.