Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1902 — CALL HIM MATRICIDE. [ARTICLE]

CALL HIM MATRICIDE.

Coroner’s Jury in Bartholin Murder Case Fixes Guilt on Missing Sou. The verdict of the coroner's jury in Chicago which branded William Bartholin as a matricide, naming him as the principal in the murder of Mrs. Annie Bartholin, for which Oscar Thompson and Edward A. Counselman were named as accessories, was, in text, as follows: “We, the jury, find that Mrs. Annie lying dead at 5052 State street, came to her death from strangulation, her body having been found buried in the ground in the basement of her home, 4310 Calumet avenue, on Aug. 9, 1902. From the evidence submitted we, the jury, recommend that William Bartholin as principal and Oscar Thompson, alias Oscar Isberg, and Edward A. Counselman, as accessories, be held to the grand jury until discharged by due process of law. “And we, the jury, further recommend that William Bartholin, now at large, be apprehended and held to await the action of the grand jury.” “Old Dad” Claffey was not mentioned in the verdict. The police have been unable to show that he participated in or even had any knowledge of the murder of Mrs. Bartholin, although he was held with the others by the jury in the Minnie Mitchell inquest.