The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-09-10
|AUT0SALESMEN
ARE MURDERED:
BODIES FOUND
Former Football Stars Body Is
Taken From Des PLANES
it,,.sl
WAS DELIVERING CAR
Bernard ]. D0ugherty, Former
Harvard Player, and Carl
Asmus Slain

sected body Oi Cart .;>mus, auto.
mobile salesman, who disappear.
I'd Thursday with Bernard J.
D0ugherty, whose body was found
in the DpS PLANES ,.,cr yesterday,
:. was Mnearthed today under the
garage in the rear OF the home OF
II. w. Church.
Church was being brought back
to Chicago from Adams, Wis.,,
where he was arrested last night
in connection with Dougherty'S
death. Church denied any knowI.
edge OF DOugherty'> death and
said he did not know AsmuS.
Chicago, September l0--Bernard J
Dougherty. automobile salesman and
Z, former allAmerican athlete. was
found slain in the Des PLANES river
the body of another man was being
sought in the river, and a 20-year- old
! youth to whom they had tried to sell
a car was under arrest tonight in one
of the most mysterious murders OF
Chicago police annals.
lDOugherty was chosen as an all
American end by Walter Camp when
he played on the Harvard University
| football team in 1901 and 1902 and
has for several years been one of the
best statesmen for the Packard Auto.
mobile, company of Chicago.
A pair of handouts were attached
to one wrist, a small rope was twist
ed about his throat and the head had
been almost severed from the body.
In addition, bruises about his head
and shoulders seemed to indicate that
he had been numerically beaten and
kicked. His home was in St. Paul
MIMI, and he was widely known as
an amateur distance runner in that
state. His sister, Miss Hannah
Dougherty. is supervisor of the st
Paul schools. Another sister, Aurelia
is also a teacher. ..
Dougherty had been employed by
the Packard company for several
years. Three weeks ago lie came from
Boston to join the sales force of the
Packard Motor Car company of Chi
cago. Yesterday he undertook to de.
liver an automobile to II. w. Church
t 2O-year-old youth who said he waS
buying it for his father. He asked
to be driven to a baIK 50 that he
could obtain certified check to pay
Tor the machine. DouSherty, accom-.
panied"by a driver, a Carl Ausmus
and followed by another car which was
to return them to the sales room after
the transaction had been completed
started out with Church.
The two machines became separated
and the second drove alone to the
bank and waited. The driver finally
became impatient and entered tho
bank to look for Dougncrty. When ht
returned he found a note tied to the
steering wheel, telling aim to return
to the shops and which was signet
with Dougherty's name. According
to officials of the company, this note
was not in Dougherty's handwriting
Church Returns Late.
Neighbors told of seeing Church
drive up to his home shortly after
wards in the car accom- panied by two
men presumed to have been Dough
erty and .Asmus. The three were
I said to have entered the house, which
| is two-stOry apartment building
the lower floor being occupied b,
Church and his motuer. No one
could remember seeing the two auto
mobile men leave but several hours
later Church took the ar to drive his
mother and another woman to In
diana Harbor, it was said. It wa;
late in the evening when they re-
turned. At six o'clock this mOrnin'
Church and his mothUr again took the
car. telling neighbors they were going
to Adams, Wis, TO visit at their for
| mer home where Churcil's father had
just bought a farm. Young Church
was arrested as he entered the town
in the machine last night but denied
all knowledge of Doushertv's death
Following the finding Of Dough
| ertv's body in the river on the out
skirts of the city this morning. the
police searched the Church home
finding a bloodstained hat with the
initials c. A. A-Asmus's initials.
brown hat later identified as hav-
ing been worn bv DOugherty. blood
soaked quilt. and an axe and base
ball bat stained with blood. Dough
ertv's sa1esman's manual was founc
in the bottom of box If innk.
| Evidenc" Of Struggle.
! The entire cellar bore evidence OF !;
terrific STRUGGLE. the walls beine
stained with blood.
The nolice believe that the two
automobile men were trapned in the
basement and slain, thai their bodies
were handcuffed together. niece o
stone being tied to the leg 0f one y
thew. and both thrown into the river
They believe that the hand"nft:
broke. allowing Douhho-tv's body tf
float to a shallow spot whore it wa;
found and that the remains Of AS
mus will be found in deener water
| Church was formerly employed ~
a jewelrv salesman AMI also WORKED
for a time in an automobile renai
shop. According to the police. hi
4 description answers that of a MAJ
, sought In connection with recen
store holdup. ~ra