Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1916 — KILLED GIRL BY INJECTING AIR, STATE CHARGES [ARTICLE]

KILLED GIRL BY INJECTING AIR, STATE CHARGES

Roy Hinterland, Illinois Youth, Is In Guarded Cell at Olney For a Strange Crime. A case rivaling that of Will Orpet, recently aoqittcd of murder in Chicago, tes sprung up at Olney, 111., a small mining town in the southern part of that state. Roy Hiniterliter is in jail Charged with the murder of his sweetheart, Elizabeth Ratdiffe.

Hanterliiter had been keeping company with Miss Ratdiffe for ten months and on last Friday evening had taken her for a buggy ride. A short time after they had driven away, ffinterliter drove up to the Olney sanitarium with the limp form of Miss Ratdiffe across his lap. Investigation disclosed the fadt that the girl was dead and Hiniterliter was immediately placed under arrest charged with her murder. He protested his innocence vigorously, saying that the girl had leaned slightly forward and them, fainted dead away. J Authorities at first thought that the girl had been poisoned but investigation proved that this was not so. There were no marks of violence on the gM's body and the doctors wiefre baffled. It was disclosed that the girl was to have become a mother but there were no signs of an illegal operation. The stomach was examined. No trace of poison. Then Dr. Weber happened to probe into an artery. A bubble escaped. There are only two things known to medical science, it is said, that cause aid embolism in the arteries. They lare faulty injection or a lesion of the lung. The body was gone over carefully. was not a mark of the needle. There was no lesion of the lungs. The brain was examined 1 . It was. so full of bubbles that it floated in water. The heart was pierced. It almost exploded. The doctors were baffled. They felt that the girl had »een murdered. But how? 'So matters rested until a man from a neighboring village came to States Attorney Morris with a package containing an instrument used in performing illegal operations. He aid he had found one of the boy friends of Hintetliter picking it up from under the old elm near the bridge on the rock road. He had taken it away from him thinking that it might have gone bearing on the case. Sheriff West went to the spot and found indications that pointed to a Struggle. The imprint of the boy’s shoes and the girl’s hands were visible in the sand. Sand of the same kind had been found in the shoe of the dead girl. Afibeir the discovery of these facts the jury stated that:

“We find the cause of the death of Elizabeth Ratcliffe is due to an unlawful attempt, feloniously to produce an abortion on the said Elizabeth Ratoliffe, from which she died. The jury then recommended that Hinterliter be held without bail until the November term of court. An airtery in the girl’s body 'had been opened with a hypodermic needle, a syringe, the plunger removed, had been inserted into the incision. The air was introduced into the artery. A bubble reached the heart. Death by embolism resuited. Thfc crime from a medical standpoint is without a parallel, it is said," and was performed by a master mind.