Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1918 — CURNICK IDENTIFIES PHOTOS [ARTICLE]

CURNICK IDENTIFIES PHOTOS

Of Alleged Murderer and Girl He Married In Rensselaer The Ren. Paul C. Curnlck, 2361 North Alabama street, field secretary/ for the local Methodist hospital, said today that he feels positive the photographs of Milo H. Piper and Frieda which were shown to him, are those of the couple he married at Rensselaer, on March 21, 1916. “I recall very distinctly • the features of the couple,” the Rev. Mr. Curnlck said, “because I had an opportunity to study their faces at the time of the ceremony. Unlike most couples, who usually are married and gone in five or ten minutes, this man and Miss Welchman talked with me for thirty or fortv minutes before and after the wedding. It is because of my extended conversation with them that I remember them so distinctly. “I presume the picture of the man was taken about the time of the marriage.’’ The Rev. Mr. Curnivk said he has not been called to Identify Piper or asked to give any information to the authorities who are investigating the case. He said, however, that he will gladly give any information he has if the authorities request him to do so.Wednesday’s Indianapolis News.

Extracts from letters of Frieda Weichman, whose badly decomposed body was found September, 1916, near a railway track not far from Muskegon, Mich., to her aunt, Mrs. W. F. Klinke of 'Hinsdale, Illinois, bring to. light the fact that she and her bigamist husband spent the first night of their honeymoon in one of the Lafayette hotels. Her husband, Milo H. Piper, was placed under arrest in Hamilton, Ontario, last week charged with the murder, but claims that he was on his way to New York to find a man by the name of Goldberg, who can present proof that Piper did not marry the girl, but that she married a man by the name of Sheldon,4 who was “boss” of a« magazine sales crew on which he was working. Piper is held in the county jail at Muskegon without bonds. . The first communisation from the couple was a postal citrd that was sent from Rensselaer, March 21, 1916, reading, “Dear folks: Tuesday, 3-21, lf3o, just married, and in a beautiful town. Bound for Lafayette. Frieda.” This card was followed by letters in which the bride mentions the conditions under which she is living with the man. One that was sent from the Hotel Kingdon, Henderson, ICY., in which she tells about going from Chicago to Hammond and from there to Crown Point, where the ‘icense was obtained, describing the trip through a dense fog. She relates an incident about a dog they had procured in Chicago and follows with —-“Well, from Hammond we went to Crown Point as all lovers do for a license. Tt was then I decided to be married in a small town, so we went to' Rensselaer, Ind., reached there about 12:30, found a fine preacher, and were married, stopped and had dinner and went on to Lafayette. Spent the night there. Put up at Crawfordsville the next night.” OUR STORE WILL BE OPEN EVERY NIGHT FROM NOW UN- | TIL CHRISTMAS.—-THE CLOTHING HOUSE OF WILLIAM TRAUB.