Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1912 — MOTHER CONVICTED OF SOFTS MURDER [ARTICLE]

MOTHER CONVICTED OF SOFTS MURDER

Mrs. Louise Linloff Sentenced to Serve Twenty-Five Tears in the State "" _ _ Prison. . ; Mrs. Louisa Linloff, spiritualist and crystal gazer, was found guilty oi murder in Chicago Monday night and •her punishment was fixed at twentyfive years in the penitentiary. She was charged with the poisoning of her son, Arthur. The seeress, who had hll along maintained that her glass of fate showed that she would be acquitted, laughed hysterically and,cast a sneering glance at the jury When the verdict was read. Later she collapsed while standing in an anteroom surrounded by her friends. She was revived and led back to the county jail. “There is no justice here,” the convicted woman sobbed. -The guilty are turned loose and the innocent get the worst of it. I will show my innocence before I am through. It will only bel a question of time. I did not kill my boy or any of the I am innocent and God is my witness.” Motion for a new trial was made by her attorney and the court set Nov. 13 as the date for hearing arguments. The Linloff boy died June 13, last, and thb- state charged that he was poisoned. Mrs. Lindloff was arrested June 14, on suspicion of having poisoned two husbands and her three children. The bodies of William Linloff, one oi the woman’s husbands, and Alma Lindloff, a daughter, were exhumed. June 27, Prof. Walter S. Haines, after a chemical analysis, reported that he had found arsenic in the internal organs of both. June 29, came a dispatch from Milwaukee that arsenic had been found in the body of Julius Graunke, a former husband of Mrs. Linloff. Police investigation proved that the boy, Arthur’s, life had been heavily insured. Other evidence was found, and July 17, the seeress was indicted by the grand Jury. The charge was murder and was based on the death of her son, Arthur. Mrs. Linloff had been in the saloon business in Chicago.