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THE C1NCINN AMS ns UPS iw SIMan Has Been Discovered Who Saw HoiOa RWilson and Salmon at Knowlton’sCorner on the Night of the Lovers’ Lane Murder With Louisa Mueller.Brother of the Dead Girl Finds a Witness Who Proves to Be the Missing Link in the Chain of Evidence That Has Been Wrought About the Statements of the Men Now Held in Prison-New Light Thrown on the Murder of the Victim.A Vital dieclt;Jvery by Henry Mueller th end Time#8tar reporter# m^the Loui-ea Mueller murder hae placed the Police department in possession pf tettlmony In the mystery of Love re' Lene that wilt weld the strongest link in' the chain ' of circumstances that .William Wilson and Theodore Salmon will have to refute In their trial# for alleged murder. WhWe this discovery of start Mhg testimony seem* to petaetrate tp the very heart of one murder mystery it ohly enshroud# mere deeply the so far‘impenetrable mystery of the myr-de'- of Alma'■Steinway. The belief rooted in the minds of the'public that a fiend'•took- the lives of Mary Me Donald. Louisa Mueller and Alma Steinway. and sought to slay by the same frightful attack Minnie Ciausaipg.Is shattered by the evidence of George Engel, a cooper, whd, though always standing ready to make known the facts In hla possession, was never en countered by Investigators until Mon day. Engel iaw William Wilson. Theodore Salmon and Louisa Mueller in the throng at the Socialist meeting at Knowlton's Cprnlt;y at aboutS: 15o'clock on the night of the murder In Lover*' Lani.Albert Palmer, 14, substantiates Engel down to the lAt detail of time, place and position of the principals.The position of Wilson and Saimbn In the eyes of the law has been altered completely. So also has the investigation, of the murder of Alma Stelrn way been altered from the foundation of the theoretical, case that a fiend whocorner at a quarter past I thatulghi!ENGEL SAW ACCUSED MEN WITH LOUISA MUELLER.Ilin.TWmifim I.Vstrlt;*ys Their Alihi ( oinplf*toly, VV linn J heard Mi* man say that/* j *51 id Tlctifv Mur Her to* Titnes-Htar re-'porter. ‘I km * dial my search was over. : It ':ven\ vy it |^g*»n dial' »o)ne than had M i-ii vlilt;*in mil ln-»h at t hat meeting a a la • r i»« drat , lor hr hail I old Many pen ; file iif i In- jufritnminniv |«it vim he was ! we cm* Id »l learn, and there were an many wild clone-, living around it-vyaa. j drill-ult 'to keep all- ol the hi m one’s nun I -to -ay pot King I niTcmpting to , rim down the mMgmiUorv Hut this was 111,- ft*lidi iti- air missed, and t+ie on* ' if nil other?, we rftost wanted.' vWh*n I j reali/,1 (!•■! fiiy man Mood within reach ,,i no- I grew T-ohl. I whs atrar-l some ) li.iU^ \y,;nhh-ha|iji‘M iihfiit;* j corld pet in.-r in hud and talk to him. 1 lo-r mr -ip him who 1 \aa Ii ho are Mo. 1 am Llt;•ndher.' I replied. 'Welt, FI nelhing else. Mueller,' he said, r -iit-er in th•truck down each of the three women Upon a new basis the investigation must be taken up again if the myr, derer of Alma Steinway it to be found. The cases of louisa Mueller. Mary McDonald and Alma Steinway seem, in the light of Engel's evidence, to be pntircly separate crimes of-singular coincidence in detail, so far as the three woman murders are charge able to a single murderer.T the same tim*,‘■ -.i|(m*ii, bltf ever*Sow, we were ail Th ai iVct ly- aoiier Thr■re js not t-h* »hjfbteM' d'tuid hi to that.fact. 1 hen I iiegkn toipn-Gi-n lyni.*fieortr* Kngcl, a cooper1 hK matt 'whs iwh» lives at ir,:'2 Tbiffner street. In’ t h* presence, ofs Times Sfsr reporter |. iv »*.. had liern a*nt (or bv Mueller. Ir*repented hr* Mori Hr said; 1 «n*t n m v. \i in kin*1'l hat night. And *topjedfor a tn'iim'UL «tKnowlton's corner to1*st*n to the' S,«in Ii*i orator, I sawUtl-t. mil Mailnor* eta tiding togetherin front of the'tnt store, while Leuiaa. Mmdlcr nJLetii ten feet furtheri knew Wilson wVU. He n nnold, ,11 Clt;|u*llIt 11 liceof mine, and while 1vv I-, fixing up th*■ crowd. 1 met bis eyeI atid h* moled, hlid We both guv* each•j other the 'high I«Iif like.thi,:” Here H.c; i-H n«i* -ilinstrut*1 by viaving his hand! aIhiv *■ In* bead.The Sniead Rollins Road compAnv. which som* time ago abandoned aneffort to build one of its plants on Gilbert avenue, in now looking tor other kilos The projectors have agreed that Sycamore hill which was aban donied some time ggo bv the trnction company, could be readily utilized for , this pur pone. Another site which hue attracted attention is that of the old j Mnip street incline Qne. it is thought, would furnish ready access to Clif j ton for heavy freight nml the otlyrr the suburb# ft* the east and north. The-1 I jvpwuided representation of the™ rolling road ready for operation A-an taken in (‘levelandMbhere one of these enterprise* has just been lt;*ttiatruci»d. it , I shows that other pictures which have-been published purporting to repre-ncui the plans were entirely misleading „Thla Is the first publication of the rolling road as It actually appear^BROTHEBJOUND WITNESS enGEL DID NOT TELL STORY WHERE POLICE FAILED.j AS HE KNEW WILSON WELL.3f ItMU’y M Ht'IjlT 1 otnpMo j I waited ther, a few niimMcs and (Tiujtl uf K\ itlenro. j 'I’-ui w.-nt tin home When f heard•“ I about the murder next day I rcmojn-Henry Mueller. lt;h« soldier brother I hf,r(M hftvtnVn„(,M ,hf Rirl H(anflinK onOf the muhb red girl, lamina Mueller. ’ the corner that night, and spoke about lias found the mlttm-a wboar evlilfitcc I' to several pt-remis When the jr*. puppll. S the missing link .In‘the chain • M.r, tn. ,r8,v.h.f‘r movementsthat has l„ en forged tnrij now held on KusiueioH of having committed the crime Theodore Hal mon and William Wilson He* ha; thus sm;ce»-dml in ae, ompHnhlng tu a Jew days vvha’ the enmWned police and deieeiive department* of Chum natl have pot been gblA *.« do m as nun* weeks r.ong before he -wore 1lt;i the-warrant for the arrest of Wilson and Salmon -yoitng Mueller says he ». K.pi cted'ile pair, and ever since their has been confident that the j* WHatitTlghi mcit wera'in custody, A Times Ftar reporter who way working lt;m the tfoinwa* cat.,, on Friday asked young Mueller If he raw any connection be '’tween the two deeds, and ha replied with great positIvpiuLHH that lie did Itoi. “I feel sure as lln-ro Is a heaven alHivc tis, were hi* word*, ihat w« have under afrmo the men, i,r at hast killed, my slater ' i amhat night and even beb Salmon were tuiwpecfed, I began to figure down closely to tlx the exact rim• ■ I had seen, her I knew Ihat 1 had started for home at Just h o’clock J walked to Sehuder's saloon and stayed there until [ had lt;opied the election re Mims,* Then I chatted with Bchueler for a moment and lie suggested that 1, being as he’called It ‘ft great BoclaHsf.' gci out on the eorner Bnd hear the s|*eaker I did so, and as I figure the lino- over, all that must have occupied ai ham m minutes ft might havo tutfon me longer, and it probably did but; It was at least 15 minutes, and 1 ran therefore truthfully swear that I saw Salmon and Wilaon on that earner as late as 9:15 on the night of the mttfder After Wilson began to be sttHjHicted and the police and detectives eommenee«t tn trace their movements, I expected that I would receive call from the pfflcers 1 expected I said nothingnot through | ,mm »bo»t?the case I had alreadymre of It ihat I will work night I * ri and day the rest of niy llfmifntil I run ,h‘‘' con’vlnce everyiKjdy ,j sinTiot through 1 l,,or with ihe work In'this matter vet 1- ' n,TW nonlv arrived here veslerdav from t'o- i ^*,lf ^ being what one would call lunihus l.arraeks to be present hi (ho I H ,1 'v«'r haying liarmedhearing of Wilson ami Salmon this !'ir11m]nw iu *» *»•' 1 ‘'i(l n°‘hearing of WIImiu and Salmon this ' «,r mino in any way I did no! feel jnurnlng% When thalt; Is ovgf I am-g I eu I led upon to go forward of my own lug to work on the eaae again I feel *crlt;,r^ leirwhat 1 knew, reallxing sure that I will dig something up.** n,,t rov lt;;v|dem0 WftH ,h« 'ory ,h,M« And so tie ha Saturday, Sunday and 1 UlHl '*‘|l do him thu most harm Monday h. has been going about Gum- j Therefor* I waited. *nd eve,, after he llllnavlllo with eyes and ears 0,M,n. | ^8«d 7‘Tythlng looked so •omrtlniot alone and sometimes In hlack for him I held back, hoping that companv with friends Monday after- j *°m'‘ «*her witness would he found »*Kin he drf*p|»t«d Inlo a salmin with l *, ^ ^ seen, andone of his rompanion* While there ,h,J* ’’J*’ necessity of•nother man, who know Mueller, be u ,l,n* nn ■ fr‘lt;'nd gan ip speak tbout th« r«*c«m munlat IIt was then that the brother heard th»* I PALMER'S STATEMENT HASwords.for which Igt had been straining Ills ear-i The speaker was unknown to Mueller, hut hla words were sufll Clent Well, they've got It on Wilson and Salmon, all right, and I eould make It llrongur 1 saw them out her* stRECEIVED CONFIRMATION.The el ate men t of George Engel had, even before th* dlacovei1^ of hla all lniis*rjant •yigence, reccMfd directconfirmation Itove tailing to exnc; nection with th* death of t^iuisa M ness is' tin- ,t(atluion of. Kngol-wlth al«m of t timminsvill* Kr«d (ig* that of Albert fnimer, Ih fourteen- Hrrretert kiwrtly nftrr the murder year-old son of Police Sergeant Pal mer of tbo First district, Albert Pul-mer h statement, as giv.-n to Coroner Weaver, was that on the night of Ibe mt.ider of lamina Mueller lie bod Im en on n visit to the hijtne of hla aupt, and as he passed, up ('olptutn avi-mie he vrim heanl Ibe befl in the roar Ivy church j wiftn tnwer atrtk%tlie time at P 15 o'clock, hist a». In* lent beu Knowlton's cor ner Tie- ac.ctaU.-t nnehng v.u then In progre-.-. and young Palmer halted at the curbstone.i saw William WfMon standing by the fir*al China Tea company's wall. ie?itii.-d Palup r * lb* stiswl beside a gitl who wore a ld.u k fiat with a while plume. Salmon was standing near the curbstone about ten foil away, and iiotiisa Muellei wa.i wlili him The sin aker said Mimeiiung abnut •Alabama and one i»f flu- girls said hometldnjg funuy ubour 'Susannah,' and they all laUglu d.The evidence has vital Importance lfi[ ( ontravTMrtion of the alibi claim pin i m flt; forth by Salmon and Wilson, in which thev declare that at In, If* o'clock ihny were passengers lt;n Ixmnl a (’lark itti-et ,-ar feturntng loCummtnsvilie from Twelfth and Vtnn streets. whilt;h t.uiid thev left allegedly at f« i, ru»( k after aecpmpanylng St«I'm ree and Lillian Keys to the city noon a car which they Isiarded at Blue Rock street and I Spring Grove avenue at about 8:3b o’clock Th» tmsupisirted testimony of Albert Palmer has not heretofore received great weight, but by tin sup tsiri of Mr. Engel is now assumes apromtmm place ,« the ease, ami a! Three Men Working on Newalso adds to the tftyklery for the rea _ . .•igrr, in K»br was x*ntci',-*,| to IfT* iin'|,rU,itiiiilt;Ti;. but f h* Sdprem* WHirt granted him :■ uev ri.it. Wilson .aid I in* eonlidcni bat the man who killed l.otnsa Mueller iIm took ll*r life uf Mi«f* Steinway. The •rime# h»tk like the Jiandte.ufk of- »u»e Salmon i.n- of i h- ism* ('(union *lt;« of th* two.men will N- h«*an! I*v ludgi- l.mdera M edneidav. *f fie\ ev peri lo fs- dismiss*,]. There is muie J •tiling very iingular about the Hianner in i which iny wife. Idiu lousu Mneih i and \lma Steinwav were nuirdi-ri-d.' -aid Fr«sl Geiger ''All were wen ,,u attie-k-s. and ,ould only ^inv,, Imcn done l»v Aoiiie fiend. Could ii it? I*e powsUdc' for one i man lo have killed my wife aim! tinlt;* two girl* It might l»e -aid that tb . irisW*fe killed II tt (illblie thX«llltb|.ir, , while my wife was struck down in our ! kitchen. Wt then this short. -V*ut. iiumv * vyttli theheard, whom the jmli’ arc look mg for. appnuiched women at ti*eir very ■ l-wrw Arid made thfin lock their housesNEGLIGENCE £ COST LIVES OF WORKMENBridge Daehed to Death.Failed to Uw* Safety Lino and Buggy Struck Pier.fur the reason that Palmer saw another girl with Louisa Mueller, Halmon and VVllson The* Identity of the girl now- b'-corues important of .discovery. Nellie Allin-dnr. lb girl of whom Halnmn whh enamored has disappeared under straiiKe circumstances from her home at IftftH Vine si tool, an was detailed exelusivelv In 'he Timea Star two W'-eks ago I5v»*ry elfort will now tm nmde to ascertain her wloueabouts.Miss AHinder's testimony vv'as. borauHe of her disappearance, never heat’d by j r” new- suspenslopthe coroner bridge here, allowed the buggy to dash— ............. . . 1 against the pier and the men were |hurled to the ground and instantly [ killed this morning. They are Thomas j Rowe, aged 21, single, of Sallnevlll*. Q.; Thomas .1 William**, aged 23, single, of|Ttmr»-alt;Mr Dls»at*k.ISTErnENVlLLE. O , November 8, -The parting of a lino pulling a bug-with tbriH* fnen In It. to work onDiGEICER THINKS UNKNOWN if HI KILLED WIFE.Points Out Similarity in Recent Crimes.Thr** |ri«(*n*rs in th* oiunly jail ch^Vgwl with murder hcH*v* that th# alTcst ef the iduyel* rvj Alma Hteiriway will result in the pnmn deops being '•imjisI i«n then*. They are William VV iUon, Theodore .Salmon and Prml. wigcr The tlrat two huv* he*n in jail ainee Lhe yearly part uf Uetulwr in mu,33 Earl atreet, Dttquesno. Pa.. Jacob Wise, martied, aged 26. of Washington, Pa The men were cm ployed nt wrapping the cable and this morning neglected to use the safety line, alwnys used heretofore by the men, -jNEW ROUTE PLANNED.Engineer Ward Huldwln submitted to tbs trustees of (he SsSjlhern railway Tuesday plan* flt;r a ***w rout* tu reach the terminal* on Front and Water afreet* Moubers Hunt and Uoodsl* were ftp-formerly eoitBultlng sngineer of
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Tue, Nov 08, 1904
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