Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1902 — SAY HE KILLED HIS MOTHER. [ARTICLE]

SAY HE KILLED HIS MOTHER.

Startling Development in the Search for a Youn k Chicagoan, With n jagged wound in the left temple, and physical evidence that she had been strangled or smothered, the almost nude body of Mrs. Annie Bartholin was found buried beneath the cellar floor of the house in which she lived at No. 4310 Calumet avenue, Chicago. Coincident with the finding of the body, the police redoubled their efforts to find the missing sou, William Bartholin, who is also suspected of the murder of Miss Minnie Mitchell, whose body was found in a vacant lot at Seventy-fourth and State streets. The body of Mrs. Bartholin was found by a party of newspaper men, after the police had searched the house. There is no apparent motive for the killing of Mrs. Bartholin or of Minnie Mitchell, but the police nre following every possible theory. . The one that finds most favor at present is that the young man, being in debt, killed his mother in order that her equity in the mortgaged property might revert to him. While this theory will not cover the murder of the Mitchell girl in any way, the police believe that Bartholin had the idea that she either suspected him of killing his mother or that she had taken him to task for telling conflicting stories regurdia* his mother's disappearance.