GIRL'S TERRIBLE FATE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 122, 22 June 1909, Page 4

GIRL'S TERRIBLE FATE

MUKDEREu'IIY A WHITE MAX DISGUISED AS A XEGIiO.

A widespread sensation was caused in January hist by the mysterious' murder of two young girls at Dayton, Ohio, their deaths being attended b.v| unspeakable outrages. No clue to the murderer could be discovered at the time, and all subsequent attempts to solve the mi'stcry ended in failure. As the result'of a startling confession, which has just -been made to the police, the identity of the perpetrator oi these revoking crimes lias at last, it is be lieved, been revealed. The alleged murderer, K.moi- Can-, was employed in Dayton last year by a wealthy cheese manufacturer named Middiestettcr. Carr, in some mysterious way, forni'id the acquaintance of the manufacturer's wife, a woman of great beauty, and in-, duccd her to leave her husband. At Curr's persuasion she opened a small hotel, and they lived together. Last autumn, the place, which was heavily insured, was burned down. Cancollected most of the insurance, and was afterwards arrested on the charge of arson, but was subsequently released. He 'Was' again arrested, the police recently having obtained sonic ircsh cv.dence.

•Mrs. Midlestetter, when quijiiuiud !.. the police concerning the wise, suddi'ii,. broke down and made a teinu.c i0...e» sion. Can', she alleged, was a funnel convict, and had confided to her that he had committed many assaults .on women, hail murdered the two Dayto,. girls, and had also murdered a young girl in Boston.

After she lived with Carr, she said, lie would often go out at night disguised as it negro laborer,, and .would invariably return with woman's purses, often torn and broken. These he would give to her. A number of highway robberies occurred at the time, whieli were attributed to a mysterious negro desperado.

FOUND I.N A CISTERX. On the night of January 3, Carr left the house made up as a negro and wearinsfccoarse working clothes. When lie reined late at night, Mrs Middiestettcr snid, his clothing was covered with mud. He saturated it with kerosene, and burned it before the eyes of the woman' and her little girl.who lived with her. The next day she said she heard of the brutal murder of: Mary Forchncr, a girl of 15, who had been' sent by her mother to a neighboring shop and had disappeared. Her mutilated body was discovered in a stable, and the whole City was stirred by the crime. On the night of January 31 the woman confessed that Carr brought Lizzie Fullhart, a, pretty g\r\ of 18, to the hotel. Aliont midnight the girl and lie went out together, and did not return.

The following night Carr sent for Mrs. Middiestettcr to meet him in a lonely spot, and told her, she alleges, that he had done something which would "turn the old town upside down." Two days later some workmen found the body of Lizzie Fullhart floating in the cistern, her body showing cvidonces of cruel handling. As Carr l|ad been seen with the girl he was arrested on suspicion, but was r-elensdd for lack.of evidence,to connect him with' the crime. The police were astounded when thev heard tin woman's confession. It was only when she was convinced that Canwas actually under arrest on the charge of arson and that her life was not m immediate danger that sl\c related her terrible stoj-y, ,