Hide Article Text (OCR)
asOfficer Tells Coroner HeKnows Slayer of Womanet.*Intimates at Inquest That Coil of Evidence Is Fastening Around Man Whom He Suspects of Atrocious Hackney Murder.“I know who killed Mary Hackney,” said Lieutenant Copelan of the Tenth Police district in concluding his testimony before Coroner Coe yesterday morning at the inquest into the death of the woman.This startling, statement from the police officer caused every one in the cor-v oner’s office to hang within tense inter-, est on every word he said.I have been working daily on thie case,” he continued, “since Mrs. Hackney’s body was discovered with her throat cut and her head literally mashed, and, though there Is nothing in the possession of the police at this time to justify an arrest, I have my suspicions and feel perfectly justified in the belief that a certain person did it.”Lieutenant Copelan and Corporal Krebs of the Tenth district were the first members of the department to arrive on the scene of the murder.Henry Bus and his wife, Mary Bus, who were the first persons to arrive on the scene of the murder, told of how they answered Hackney’s request “to come to his home, as something was the matterTWO INDICTED FOR ACCEPTING BRIBE OF $500with his wife.’ They told how they found, upon entering the house, the dead body of Mary Hackney, with her head crushed and throat cut, lyiftg in a pool of blood.Coolly Smoked During Turmoil.Mrs. Bus said Hackney acted with perfect composure. She said that Hackney coolly lighted his pipe and with au air of indifference began tosmoke. \ .Tm, T. a . „’‘■''‘Assojf a'SwhAt fie wasdoing X turned to him and told him he ought not to -do so,” said Mrs. Bus on the stand, “and he replied, ‘Oh, when a •thing is to be it is to toe,’ and quietly continued smoking.”Mrs. Evwlina Hulbert. a neighbor, said she was poaitive she saw and spoke to Mas. Hackney about 8 o’clock Tuesday morning, the day of the munder. This was two hours after Hackney and Na-bor went to work. Mrs. Hulbert said Mrs. Hackney was standing under the grape arbor. She also testified that one day about three weeks ago, when Mrs. Hackney saw a negro In her stone whom, she said, she was afraid of and who has made advances to her on more than one occasion, Mrs. Hackney told her she was afraid of the negro, as he had acted in a peculiar manner tjwardj her on one occasion.Architect George Yeandle, Juror in Rosenheimer Murder Case, Was Caught in Trap.NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—Dagelbert Tie-mendorfer, accused o£ being the “go-between” in seeking a bribe of $2,000 for GeorgA W. Y'eandle, who was drawn as a juror in the case of Edw. T. Rosenhei-mer, a wealthy merchant charged with murder, offered to plead guilty to an indictment returned against him late today.As Tiemendorfer was not represented by counsel when he was arraigned, District Attorney Whitman asked Justice O’Gorman not to accept his plea. Tiemendorfer and Yeandle, who was alsc indicted, were held in $25,000 bail each for examination tomorrow. Yeandle entered a plea of not guilty.V ___ — _Mrs, Hulbert said she never spoke to Hackney but once on twice until after the murder, and had been at the Hackney home only once. Then she got a pet chicken Mrs. Hackney had given her, she declared. Mrs. Hackney frequently called at the store, she said, and they talked about things in general. She said Mrs. Hackney told her elhe was happy with her' husband.Mrs. Louise Stuetting, also a near neighbor of the Hackneys, from whom Hackney rented hia. house, said she had known Mrs. Hackney since she was a little girl, and it had been her understanding that Hackney and his wife always got along well together.Fellow Workmen Testify.Gentry Brooks, superintendent of the lumber mill where Hackney was employed, testified to his good character, and other workmen from the mill, who saw him working on the day Mrs. Hackney was murdered, said they noticed nothing unusual In the man’s actions on that day.Throughout the time Coroner Coe was holding the inquest Hackney was in ‘the witness room. No verdict was returned as the inquest will be left open for possible developments by the police.The suit of underclothing and the outing shirt with blood stains on them found in the vicinity of the Hackney home Monday have not been traced to their owner by the detectives. Detectives Pflug and Hueftlein were closeted with Hackney for over an hour yesterday morning. The officers will question him again today.Hackney left his residence yesterday afternoon in company with his two sisters-in-law. Many of the household effects were taken away from the house yesterday by him and his relatives.\
Newspaper Details
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Nov 02, 1910
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Cincinnati A.
OH, USA 14 Oct 2024
Other Publications Near Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati Kentucky Times Star
Cincinnati Christian Age
Cincinnati Israelite
Cincinnati North Journal
Weekly Cincinnati Times
