South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-22

family and left the fourth member
in a condition OF living-death. He
/ thinks that someone familiar with
/ the Monroe home IS responsible for
I the crime. Smith heard no noises at
I the Monroe home Saturday night.
I But he understood that the Herbert
+ Smith family and the Monroes had
had trouble.
Mrs. Herbert Smith was question
/ ed Tuesday night after the bodies
/ had been discovered lifeless in the
house next door. Smith was in
/ Kalamazoo, she said.
Il didn't sleep well Sunday night
or Monday night" she told the
| News-Times representative who met
her on the street.
Ardeth VIII Recover.
/ Hospital authorities tonight were
optomistic over the condition of
Ardeth. and believed that she will
recover. She has regained con-
sciousness and her sight viii be re-
stored, it is believed.
The coroner's inquest will be held
at 10 o'clock Thursday morning in
the Elks temple, DR.. S. Z. Bryant
said last night. Acting Prosecutor
Croy Hendryx will assist IN the
probe.
The bodies are held in the Lyons
undertaking parlors pending tie in
quest.
Pathetic Scenes Near House.
The home of Clarence Wright
was a pathetic scene early Wednes-
day, soon after the arrival of the
relatives Of Mrs. Monroe. Mr.. and
Mrs. Leonard McC7ish. bent and
gray with years. parents of the
murdered woman, were on the verge
of collapse upon their arrival from
their Kalamazoo home. They had
not seen their daughter since July
T. when she visited at their home.
Ii was then that they had given
up their plans to build a modern
home on one of the three lots owned
by them In the Hastings addition,
and on which stands the death
|. house" Their finances in the time
of business depression were not
such as TO permit the cost Of erec-
ton Of a new structure, and they
decreed 10 live another year in
their temporary home, in hope OF
better times.
Detectives Aid Probe.
Others at the Wright home were
l.. ]. and Clifford McClish. Of KaIa-
: mazoo. brothers OF Mrs. Monroe;
} Mrs Minnie Ressler. Mrs Edna
Johnson. Mrs John Veddo. Mrs
, Wilson Furney, Mrs. Ralph Gillette
D and Mrs Wright. all of whom are
sisters OF the dead woman.
New York Central railroad detec-
tives. working on the theft Of safe
/. from the Cassopolis station SAtur-
day night. in which the yeggs abAn-
; doued the safe near this city after
obtaining but 156 sticks of chewing
gum, are working on the murder
case. Detectives from Chicago and
South Bend have also arrived. Ed
ward Evans. Chicago, and Charles
b Donaldson. Detroit. fingerprint eX-
perts. also are on the case.
They have obtained one print-a
blood print from the bed clothing
that they believe may be OF aid in
the apprehension Of the murderer.
CNGnt Oh TIC IEuEtuls
The authorities today tried TO re-
= construct in their own minds the
I scene in this little cottage. or almost
less than c. ttage.
The house is far away from the
! travelled road and is built upon the
most primitive plan. Ii contains
but four rooms The two doors. one
in the rear and the other in front,
had not been opened but a small
window opening into the kitchen
had been open.
Il was through this that the muir
derer is believed TO have crept.
No Struggle Occurred.
All members Of the Monroe
family slept in the same bedroom.
= The beds were alike simple iron
affairs.
The positions OF the bodies indf-
, cate that there had been no strug-
, gle and that the murderer must
have worked with the quickness
! strength. and ferocity Of a maniac.
, They believe that he crept into
r This bedroom in which the man and
! his wife occupied one bed and the
two daughters in the other and have
struck at once with sufficient force
! 20 kill with a single blow.
They believe too, that he swung
: his club IN quick succession upon
( each OF the four victims and then
returned 20 strike again and again
, IN mad lust for blood desire
which crlminoloEists connect with
k certain drugs and with certain forms
p OF insanity.
r The whole thing was done 50
r. quickly that each victim died az
y they slept and were unable 10 make