Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-26
Illinois Has Another Case
Similar to Orpet-Lam.
bert Affair.
GIRL KILLED
BY INJECTING AIR
Empty Hypodermlo Alleged BY Seats
to Have Caused Sudden Death ot
Elizabeth Rateliffe-Roy Hlnterlitsr
Hel' Grand Jury by Coroner
c. % Crime Discovered by Acct.
oy Surgeons.

Olney, ILL.,, July 26.-When a tiny
pressure OF physicians knife. the
first chain of evidence against Roy
Hinterliter, who brought the body OF
Miss Elizabeth Radcliffe to a sani-
torium here in buggy last Friday
night, was said by authorities today to
have been welded. The death Of the
Ratcliffe girl is said by medical
authorities to be without parallel II 1t
develops a crime was actually COM
mitted.
Hinterliter was held to the grand
jury, which held him responsible for
the girls death. The young man be-
gan calling on the girl about ten
months ago, when she came to Olney
from Paoli Ind. to live with her sis
ter. Mrs. Bert Fancher. Last Friday
evening the couple went driving. The
girl is said to have died beneath an
old elm tree two miles from town.
Doctors say the girl was dead when
she was placed in the buggy.
Soon to Become Mother.
"o Wt2S SCltIh6 ASoA so"A VhSA
she said. Roy. feel bad" Hinter-
liter told the physician. Then sha
fell over in my lap and rubbed her
hands and feet, but couldn't bring her
to-"
No marks of violence were found.
but it developed that the girl soon
was to become g. mother.
The stomach was examined. No
trace Of poison was found. Then one
of the physicians stuck probe into
an, artery. There was ''pour' almost
inaudible, as a bubble burst. 1t was
said only two things known to science
would cause embolism in the arteries.
faulty injection with Z hypodermio
needle or lesion of q lung.
No Needle Mark.
The body was examined carefully.
There was no needle mark. There was
no lesion Of the lung. Tho brain was
found to be full of water. The heart
when pierced almost exploded.
A man from a nelghboring town
came to States Attorney Morris' Of
flee with a package containing q SUR
gical instrument. He said he had
found one Of the boy friends Of Hinter-
liter picking it UP under the elm tree.
Sheriff West visited the spot and
found where a horse had been tied
and marks of n struggle in the sandy
soil, the imprint Of a girls hand and
boys shoe.
Instead Of using the instrument al
intended, it is maintained by physi-
clans that he used it as an untitled
hypodermic needle.
To friend who saw the young man
after he had taken the gir! to the sani-
torium, the latter is quoted as say
ing:
II am in bad. Take my rig homo
and tell mother that don't know when
l will be home"
Inquest In Secret.
The unfolding of the evidence which
will be presented to the grand Jury
against young Hinterliter has come by
slow dramatic stages from the time he
deposited the body of the girl at the
:;G"!t2r!";fi Until The holding of the IL
quest amid the greatest secrecy
No one was permitted to attend the
inquest save the witnesses the Jurors.
Coroner /. N. Martin, Sheriff West and
States Attorney II. G.. Morris.
The states attorney explained this
by saying that the procedure was in
the nature of a grand jury hearing
and that it was most important to the
states case that some of the evidence
be not disclosed at this time.
Secrecy is being thrown around the
names Of the three most important
witnesses-two boy friends of Young
Hinterllter, and a man whose dis:
closures first solved the medical prob
lem which faced the doctors who per-
formed the autopsy