The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-12
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2 TORCH MURDERS

garet Brown, a New York govern
ess a year ago, had caused an in
yeStigation.
But Ffrancis L. Bergen, prosecu-
tor of Somerset county, said after
careful inquiry, he could find no
evidence linking Campbell with
Miss Browns murder.
Both women had been killed and
their bodies burned.
Both we're found dead in remote
sections of New Jersey and both
had said they we're going to marry
the doctor" and had withdrawn
their private funds in preparation
for the weddings.
Discusses Strange COurtship
Campbell, a student of medicine,
who admitted he called himself q
doctor when he met Mrs. Mowry,
denied emphatically Thursday night
and today that he knew anything
concerning the death of Miss
Brown.
He appeared willing enough to
discuss all the phases Of his strange
courtslip with the nliddle-aged Mrs.
MoWry, and confessed in detail of
meeting her through a matrimonial
agency, marrying her and then kill
ing her because sit was the only
way to get rid of her"
Campbell's pretty wife was
brought before the prosecuting at
torney to tell Of her husbands ac-
tlvlties and to help explain a former
bigamous charge against him which
grew out of their marriage in Chi
cago in 1918.
Admirer of Teddy Bears
There was no record of whether
Mrs. Campbell had knowledge of
her husbands dual role-a respect
ed business man and writer of en-
gineerlng text books, on the one
hand, and a philanderer among
women who wrote to matrimonial
agencies and the lovelorn columns
OF newspapers, on the other.
Police have learned he had writ
ten to numerous matrimonial
agencies and to lonely heart" COL
umns of daily newspapers.
Hundreds of letters were found in
his apartment in answer to these
letters.
Also in his apartment was a room
Strewn with dolls and teddy bears.
A strong box was opened and it
revealed more dolls and teddy bears.
Their import goes unexplained.
In Mrs. Mowry's case the story is
known from Campbell's confession.
He met her through a matrimonial
agency in Detroit
In Elkton, Md, they married, al
though Campbell already had
wife and family.
Irked by Separation
Il knew shortly that I had done
wrong" he confessed.
They had no home to return to
and she went to her home in
Greenville, Pa, while he continued
his role of the respected engineer
OF Westfeld, N. j., who daily COM
muted to his Office in New York
ity.
The long separation finally irked
Mrs. Mowry and she went to New
York City to find her husband,
They finally met, went to Phila-
delphia and then drove to Crawford,
N. j., where Campbell said he de
cided would have to get rid of
her He shot and killed the
woman. burned her body and then
returned to his respected role.
Crawford is only a short distance
from where Miss Browns body was
found and her death came only a
short time before Campbell biga-
mously married Mrs. Mowry.
Shows Some Remorse
His peculia- nature permitted no
sorrow for Ms. Mowry, but he did
show this much remorSe.
Il regret that my family must
know"
And even that struck police as
peculiar, Tor they said they had
traced his movements through
Omaha, Chicago, Detroit and Phila-
delphia and had learned he had
been involved in a bigamy case in
Chicago after he married his pres
ent wife, RoSalie McCready.
The disposition of that bigamy
charge is not known definitely, but
it is understood it was dropped.