Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1911 — Is Luella Mabbitt Alive? “Bill” Green Talks of Murder. [ARTICLE]

Is Luella Mabbitt Alive? “Bill” Green Talks of Murder.

Logans port Pharos. “Bill” Green, who served 22 years In prison for the killing of Enos Brumbaugh, yesterday for the first time told what he knew of the alleged murder of Luella- Mabbitt by his brother, Amer Green, who was hanged. Green said Amer never told him any of the facts of the case, but that the body found in the river at Lafayette and supposed to have been that of the Mabbett girl was that of a man. Nothing was found on the body but a silk handkerchief which was tied about the neck, he said. Green recalled that „a convention of dentists at Lake Maxinkuckee examined the skull at the time and a majority of them pronounced it the skull of a woman. He says there is a man in the state’s prison now who found the body and .says there was no clothing on it aswas reported. Green killed Brumbaugh July 16, 1881, and was a fugitive from justice for five years until apprehended in the west by J. B. Stanley, of this city. He said his whereabouts were betrayed by a man by the name of McFann, who now lives in Kokomo. He said he had been writing to his folks and that McFann gave one of his letters to Stanley. Green says Stanley took the letter with him to the west and that the sheriff of Ulham county, Texas, stole the letter from Stanley’s pocket and gave it to him. He says he still has the letter. Green is badly crippled with rheumatism and gets around with the aid of crutches. He came here from Converse yesterday and says he expects to start in business here. While here yesterday he met John Mclntosh, another local man who served time in prison. He was sent up for life for the killing of Frank Pottmeyer, and was paroled.