The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-16
COBBLER HELD
ON CLEWS IN
FIEND KILLING
Strands of Hair and SkeinS
of Cord Link Bachelor
With Child Murder.
MISSING YOUTH SOUGHT
Police Head Believes New
Hickman May Be
Guilty Man.

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 16.-"Look
for another Hickman" Andrew E.
Grumpy, police inspector, advised
500 officers today as the hunt for
the slayer of 12-year-old Dorothy
Aune entered it's third day.
There is a strong possibility this
lnhuman crime was committed by
some youth who thought himself
another Edward William Hickman"
Inspector Grumpy said.
THE kidnapping, f1endish attack
and murder of this school girl was
very similar to that of the Los An
geleS child for which Hickman was
hanged"
Coincident with Crummy's i'm
structions it was learned a 22-year-
OLD youth who lived not far from
the place where Dorothy's mutilated
body was found stuffed in gunny-
sacks on Wednesday had been re-
ported missing since Monday.
Youth Is Missing
The young man was said to have
left his office Monday afternoon
for an appointment with a physi-
clan and did not return. A check
up revealed, it was reported, that
he did not keep his appointment.
Meanwhile police continued to
round up dozens of suspicious char
acters, of whom nine were held for
further questioning. These in
cluded:
A 31-year-old cobbler in whose
shop and home were found several
bits of what police termed perhaps
valuable evidence.
Two brothers of the shoemaker.
A close friend Of the Aune fam
fly who had been attentive to Dor
othy.
A middle-aged former inmate of
an insane asylum.
Four men arrested near railroad
yards.
Hundreds of morbidly curious
still stood about the territory near
the Aune home today and scores Of
others visited the lonely spot near
the Hiawatha avenue railway tracks
where the body of the school girl
was found. The great majority Of
these curious folk, strangely enough,
were women and small children.
Shoemaker Is Grilled
Strands of dark hair and two
skeins of cord wove a web Of cir
cumstantial evidence about Albert
Mollenauer today as he was ques-
toned in connection with the death
OF Dorothy.
Mollenauer, who operates a shoe
shop just block from the Aune
home, was confronted by police with
the hair. a freshly-washed suit of
underwear, two rolls of cord and
distinctive automobile tire, all found,
they said, in his cebbler shop.
Police declare the hair was SINH
lar to that of the murdered girl;
that the underwear, still damp, was
found under pile of rubbish in the
cellar of the shop; that the cord
was like that used to bind the body
OF Dorothy in burlap sacks and the
tread of the automobile tire CORE
sponded with a track near the
bundle that contained the girls
body.
Grill Man All Night
With that evidence detectives
questioned Mollenauer all night, but
he denied he was the fiend who
kidnapped the girl, attacked and
etrangled her, and then flung her
trussed body into the gutter where
it was found by ice men at dawn
Wednesday.
In the course of quizzing, the mid
die aged shoemaker was taken to the
undertaking rooms where Dorothy's
body lay.
as that the girl you knew" a de-
tective queried.
Mollenauer quivered and said he
stiidn't believe it was
Would you recognize her with
the cord around her neck?" came
the next question.
'What?" Mollenauer said, and
didn't answer when the question
was repeated.
The shoemaker remained mute as
the detectives continued their ques-
tionS.
They said Mollenauer was well ac-
quainted with Dorothy and had
given her money on occasions when
she would go into his shop They
also said they had been informed
Mollenauer had shown affection for
other little girls of the neighbour
haod.
Two brothers of Nollenauer, John,
20. and Henry, 40, also were held.
The three. al bachelors, live to-
gether.
Reward of s4.275 Spurred on the
police. 500 being engaged in the
Twin Cities to solve the crime that
has stirred the entire population.