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Knife Missing From Home Of Brutally Slain WomanNeighbors Go Through Household Effects and Declare the Kitchen Utensil Has Disappeared—Police May Put Bloodhounds on Trail.A butcher knife hag been missing from the humble Httle home on Canal Ridge, Cumminsville, where the slain b6dy of Mrs. Mary Hackney was found Tuesday, according to close friends and neighbors.| The knife, according to Mrs. Mary B.us, who was the first one to arrive at tha Hackney home on the night of the murder, and Mrs. Louise Stuetting, who for twenty years was an Intimate friend of the family and from whom the Hacknaya rented the 'house In which the awful crime was committed, said last night to a Commercial Tribune reporter, after , making an exhaustive search of the I house, that they were unable 7to find j the knife, wh'ch they had seen the day before the murder on the kitchen table “I know the knife was here,” said Mrs. Stuetting, “because it has not been longet than a week since I saw it on the table, and I asked Mary at the time what on earth she wanted with such a big knife. She replied that Harley did not eat beef, and as she had to cook ham, she had i got the knife in order to cut through . ; the bone.”Mrs. Stuetting and Mrs. Bus searched ! the house from top to bottom last night In search of the knife while a reporter held a light, and when they had finished declared that, with the exception of a knife which Mrs. Hackney used for cutting bread and from which the handle | had been broken, all of the dining room ! and kitchen knives were there. The ' police took the bread knife away. The handle was identified by Mrs. Stuetting,! which she found in the kitchen cupboard. Didn't See Knife.According to the testimony of Corporal Kreb» of the Tenth district, who was the iirst policeman on the scene of the murder, and Lieutenant Cqpelan, who arrived immediately afterward, both of whom searched the house thoroughly on the night of the murder, they did not see the big butcher knife. “The only knife that we saw,” said Lieutenant Copelan last night, “with which the woman’s throat could have likely been cut was the one without a handle. This was j later taken charge of.”Major Crawford, chief of detectives, j said that the only knife that had been taken away from the house by his men was the one without a handle.Mrs. Stuetting said yesterday that she knew every piece of furniture in the | Hackney home, that hardly a day passed without her having been in the house.“I let Maxy have a number of piece* of furniture and knew everything she had in her house,” Mrs. Stuetting said after »he had searched the house withMrs. Bus; she found six metal knives and * forks and three or four kitchen knives with wooden handles.“I found everything that belonged to the dining room and kitchen in this line, with the exception of the butcher knife,” said both Mrs. Stuetting and Mrs. Bus.Hackney was at the house yesterday, where he stayed for some time. He shaved himself in the room where his wife was murdered. Before going to his house he went to the tin shop of Mrs. Eveline Hulbert, the woman who said she saw Mrs. Hackney standing In her yard at 8 o’clock the day she was murdered.The Cincinnati police department will have bloodhounds with ■fchlch to trace per. petrators of crimes like the Hackney murder. The first step toward securing the bloodhounds wa«lt; taken yesterday when Police Chief Jackson accepted the offe * of Constable Ivy of Elmwood. The latter has an animal and has offered the use of it to the Cincinnati department at any time it wishes. The plan proposed is to tend the police auto containing the hound to the scene of the crime as soon as possible. An order haa been issued to rope off the area around where the crime has been opmmitted and to keep all people away until the dog has been given the scent.This plan will be tried and if found successful Safety Director Small wdl purchasf for the use of the department a pair of well-broken dogs, which will be kept at police headquarters ready for all emergencies.Husband Cool at Funeral.The chapel of the undertaking establishment of Allison A Yates was crowded to its capacity yesterday afternoon by the many friends and relatives of Mrs. Mary Hackney, besides a great throng of the curious who desired a glimpse at the funeral of the murdered woman.Hackney, the husband, was present and seemed to be the coolest and moat collected of all the relatives, having very little to say .and apparently being morose and uncommunicative even to the members of the immediate family.The services were conducted by the Rev. Gilbert Schmidt of the St. Paul’s Evangelical church, and the interment was in Evergreen cemetery.THE NEW RINK.The roller skating season is soon to com mand the time and attention of the lovers of that wholesome and invigorating pastime.The New Rink In Music hall, equipped In the most up to-date manner and wltn an ample supply of skates of the latest pattern, is to open Monday night, Nov. 7-The management has everything in readiness and an unprecedented attendance is ex pected.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sun, Oct 30, 1910
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