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SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1915. ;
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Local Minister, Solves Mys
tery Which Forges Link in
Chain of Murder Evidence,
VICTIM HAD $3000 CASH
Yolloe Locate Viae From Wnioh xig
Which Was TJaed to Take Away
Body Was Betted.
(Continued From Pace One.)
, perfect description' they have of .the
murderer believe thaj his apprehension
will be but a matter of a few houra.
Soon after the message waa dis
patched to .Boston, the post answered:
"Wire all detaila of story to ua. We
believe we have the man located."
These details work perfectly into
the general evidence,
"r In Llnntl'e trunk when It was
opened at the morrufc last night waa
' found George Ellofa work. "Scene
Prom Clerical Life," lndlcatlnr that
the man waa of a religious turn of
mimi.
A small black ribbon, six Inches
wide, hearing the name of J. Llnnd
but taken at the time for F. Linnd;
waa also found. The clothes, some
of them, bear trade marks of Boston
dealers while others come from Pal
estine, Texas, Seattle and San Fran-
Cisco.
Bald He Z.lveA In Boston.
The murdered man told Mrs. De
, Corsey, the landlady of the house at
40T Stark street, where the murder
was committed that he had lived in
Homon 25 years ago.
The identification by Rev. Mr. Ovall
.waa mad after seeing the photographs
in The Journal thin evening. He at
once telephoned the detectives that he
believed he knew the man. Detectives
Mallett and Price went to the minis
ter's home and the minister accom
panied lliem to the morgue, where the
identification was made complete.
Acting on these established facts the
police are now busying themselves
with the one task of apprehending the
murderer. The "green trunk" mur-
derer is believed to have made his way
out of the city and police of every
Xie!ghborlng city are being notified
with accurate descriptions.
Bertlllion Expert Hunter has pre
pared a large ser of photographs and
these will be spread broadcast about
the northwest. It ia not believed the
man can long escape the net being
spread about him.
"PIG FACE" MAN HIRED
RIG TO HAUL BODY
OF VICTIM TO RIVER
"Have you a horse I can hire?"
C. K. Howltt. proprietor of the Model
stables, 295 Davis street, was Just
walking from Ms office at 11:30 Frl-
aay morning wnen n waa thus ac
costed by a man who walked up the
tlriveway. Howitt Is the man who
rented the rig to the "green trunk"
murderer.
The man was of medium height and
heavy set. Ills face was fat and round,
with grotesquely protruding Jowls. ,
Howitt described it as 'a "pig" face.
He was neatly clothed, white shirt,
white collar, and talked in a deep
voice. He may have weighed 190
pounds.
Ten minutes later he had engaged a
rig. Two hours later he returned for
it, paid $1.50, the hire, In advance and
drove away. He had signed the regis
ter "Ed Hopkins," oft "527 Stark street."
Man Is Xecognlsed.
Yesterday afternoon this rig was
positively identified, beyond the ques
, tlon of a doubt, aa the one that hauled
' from 405 Stark street to the river Fri
day afternoon the trunk cpntalning the
body of the man who was beaten to
death with a blunt instrument as he
slept in a room of the house earlier in
the day.
The man "Hopkins," who hired the
rig at the same time was identified
by a picture by two women as one
who had lived with the murdered man,
who had nursed him Thursday while
he was ill, and who on Friday after
noon, was seen straining every
tnuscla, his face purple with effort,
lifting a heavy green trunk Into a
rig.
With the aid of two descriptions,
which the police consider tally exact
ly, the man is being sought by 'the
police of every city on the coast to
day, ami messages have been sent to
intercept him If he is on trains east
ward bound across the country.
When "Hopkins" inquired about hir
ing the horse, Howitt, who says that
(he curious appearance of the man at
tracted ills attentton, asked him If he
wanted a driver also.
Wanted to Got Chickens.
"No, I just want a horse and rig
that 1 can drive out In the country to
get some ctucKens wun, he answered.
"The horse must be very gentle," JIopJ
kins added.
"He said Just as little as he possibly
couia ana sun ten me wuat he want
d," Mr. Howitt narrated yesterday
afternoon, after his rig and little bay
mar had been proven to be the outfit
that bad carried the green trunk to
the foot of Flanders street.
: "He was very particular about the
' rig, and 1 took him back and showed
him what I had. He said he wanted
; one that had room for a large chicken
coop, when ho saw this wagon, he
, Maid that it was Just what he wanted.
: After he had engaged it, he repeated
'that the horse must be gentle, very
gentle, for he waa going to drive it
' himself.
, Howitt was Just going away at 1-.Z0
:- In the afternoon, when "Hopkins" came
Back to tne siame again. This time,
as before, he was clad in a heavy over
coat. Stranger Showed Irritation,
Howitt first went to the head of the
' Incline leading to the fetalis and called
for the horse he had selected. The
'.i wrong animal appeared. The stranger
showed some irritation and again in
sisted on a gentle horse.
- Howitt went back down to the barn
t and led up the little bay mar that
figures now so prominently in Port
land's fourth sensational "trunk" mur
- der mystery. 1
. Howitt left the bam before the
' Torse had been hitched up, and did not
see' his patron drive away.
j About - dark, the rig. was returned.
S. O. Vlkene, barn man, was there to
in. hitch, - . i
, v "Did you get .your chickens V VI-
kens asked, Jokingly.
, -Hopkins". . cUmbed- Xrotn ifte ' tit,
turning his head away front yikens.
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OF MAN
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Llnnd Seen In Salem.
Salem, Or., Nov. 20. The
man killed In the Portland
boarding house and a compan
ion, stayed In Salem, for two
weeks, leaving here last Mon
day, according to Chief of Police
Welsh tonight.
The larger man gave the
name of Bartholomew and the
smaller one the name of Llnnd.
Llnnd and Bartholomew told
local real estate men that they
wanted to buy a chicken ranch.
People they negotiated with
recognized Llnnd by newspaper
pictures of the green trunk mur
der victim.
Linnd paid all the bills and
it did not appear as though
Bartholomew had any money.
The Salem police are work
ing with the Portland, officers
in an effort to locate Bartho
lomew. and, without answering, hurried from
the stable.
Bays BZaa Ia Same.
"I saw the picture in The Journal
supposed to be the companion of Linnd,
and I would say that he is the same
one who hired tha rig," said Howitt.
In this he was affirmed by one of his
employes. He added, however, that
the picture showed the man to be
Bomefhat younger than he actually ap
peared.
Hard work on the part of four city
detectives, who, almost without clew,
combed every livery stable In the busi
ness districts of the east and west
sides, unearthed this development.
Garner in the day Detectives Royle
and Cahlll had gone to the east side
and with an automobile searched the
stables on that side of the river.
They had been unsuccessful In find
ing any rig in the least resembling
the one described as having driven up
to the green trunk murder house on
Stark street
Warder Soess Enacted,
In the meantime Detectives Hill and
Howell were making a similar search
on the west side. These two officers
went into the barn and were told that
a rig had bean hired Friday to 'a
man answering the general descrip
tion of the green trunk victim's
partner. They were not shown tha
rig, however.
A few minutes later Royle and Ca
hlll, not knowing of the efforts of the
ether two officers, entered this stable,
were told that the other two men
had Just left, and they were shown
the vehicle.
The officers had the little bay mare
hitched to it. and they drove to the
scene of the crime.
There the steps in 4olng away with
the body, as they were seen by Mrs.
Jessie Althoff, of 407 Stark street, the
day before, were reenacted.
Mrs. Althoff was a keenly Interested
spectator.
"That's the very buggy the very
side curtains, the very horse," she ex
claimed, "There is not the slighteat
doubt in the world that that la the rig
In which I saw the green trunk placed
ns carriea away.
; ark Spots TsU Tale.
The vehicle Is a "democrat
It has a square canopy top. It and the
side and back curtains ate black.
The bottom of the back: curtain hm.,1
at soma time been torn off, and a
white piece of oilcloth had been added
to make the curtain complete again.
When the curtain had been thrown
up, while the green trunk was placed
Inside the vehicle, tha whit oilcloth
loomed tip prominently against the
omerwise hiack surface. I
A huge dark spot mara the floor '
the tig. It was hot there before the
rig taken from th stasia, tha -at.
tend lut aay.. and police otfcerj Who
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Above (left to right) View of the house at 407 Stark street in which the murder was committed. The
bed on which the man lay shows through the window. The first portrait is a likeness of the
murdered man, identified: by Key. Mr. Ovall as John Linnd, of Boston, Mass. The man to the right
is supposed to be the dead man's companion, whom the police have been, unable to locate. Second
row center (left to right)-A corner of the bedroom in which the crime was committed, showing the
bed and the mattress with its big blood stain; river bank at the foot of Flanders street, where
trunk containing body was found Friday night. Below Horse and rig secured from the Model
Livery Stable, which was used to cart body from house where murder teas committed to foot
of Flanders street. Man; holding hone is Detective I B. Cahill, Detective W. H. Rojie stands in
front of buggy. Beneath is signature of man on livery stable register wlien rig was hired, and
hatchet used to slay Linnd.
saw it declared it Is a blood stain. The
rig was washed Friday night, but the
spot was not entirely obliterated.
Want another Man Also.
Th spot In places has the rec
tagular shape Indicating that whatever
fluM had made it, had been kept In
place by the bottom edges of the
trunk.
There is one other man for whom
the police are keenly searching. Outside
of the murderer himself. That Is the
man who was the supposedly innocent
accomplice in helping the murderer
take the green trunk to the riven bank.
This man was not with "Hopkins,"
either when he took or when he
brought back the vehicle from and to
the stable. . .
He is' described as a young man,
23 to 25 vears of age, heavily built
through the shoulders, and smooth
shaven. He was clothed in overalls
that were rolled high, showing logger's
boots underneath, a light gray coat
and Bray hat '
As "Hopkins' drove south . j along
Fifth street to Burnsida, the jdeteo
tlves infer, he cogitated on his! prob
able ability to manipulate the heavy
trunk, and decided to pick J up a
stranger to help him,- This man; from
his description, the Officers believe,
is on ot. the. great throng .of laborers
who flock along Burnsida street and
"GREEN TRUNK" MURDER
that is the most logical place for
"Hopkins" to have picked him up.
This man' helped to carry the
trunk from Hhe house, according to
Mrs. Althoff, but "Hopkins," bis face
fairly purple from the exertion, did
most of the work in lifting the heavy
box from th ground to the bed of the
wagon. Hopkins afterwards carefully
slammed the high end gate, and the
two drove away together.
ROBBERY BELIEVED
TO BE MOTIVE OF
THE TRUNK .MURDER
That robbery was the motive for
the murder was established almost be
yond a doubt by Detectives J. Moloney,
Cahlll, Price and Mallett yesterday aft
ernoon. Found In the trunk with the body
Friday night were the man's clothes,
almost two complete ' outfits, includ
ing two overcoats.
One suit bore the marks of having
been recently used. It was of neat ma
terial, but unpressed.
The inside. vest pocket of this suit
still bore , the , Imprint of . a money
pouch, or socket book, ; The cloth- Still
laid in the folds that a heavily filled
purse would make.
But this detail Is regarded as the
most significant of all. Through the
top of the pocket on the inside a small
safety pin was stuck, and about the
pin were many little holes showing
that the pin had been removed and re
set again repeatedly.
But the pin yesterday had little
snreds or white cloth ' from the ves
lining still adhering to the Joints and
point, as if, when the pocket was
opened for the last time, the pin had
been jerked loose. The other side of
the pocket, where the pin had been
fastened across, shows little Jagged
flakes and holes, as if the pin had
been roughly torn away.
TRUNK MURDER IS
FOURTH OF KIND IN
HISTORY OF CITY
Portland's latest "trunk" murder is
the fourth In her history, according
to police records. All the previous
ones have been solved, and In every
case some of the- accomplices In the
crimes, at least, iiave been punished.
. J. .Nelson Brown, a rancher,.. was-the
first ylctim, Xhi case occurred la
October of 1881. Brown became In
volved with Carrie Williams, a woman
of the tenderloin, then running a re
sort at Third and Yamhill streets. He
caused her arrest. She and her asso
ciates lured him to her house and he
was chloroformed to keep him from
testifying at the trial next day.
Brown died under the drug, and his
body was buried under the house. Later
the stench became too strong and the
woman had four men hangers-on about
the'plce put the body In a trunk and
cart it to the river.
On the way the horses ran sway,
the corpse dropped from the trunk,
was replaced and ttfe trunk finally
thrown into the river near the North
Pacific mills. Later it was found, but
the conspirators had fled.
Several were apprehended, the Wil
liams woman was sentence to 15
years in the penitentiary and Peter
Sullivan was sentenced to five years.
On June 20, 1910, the body of Wil
liam A. Johnson was found in a tiunk
at the Union station. Jesse F. Webb
and Mrs. Carrie Kersh, a former wife,
were arrested next day, both were con
victed and Webb was sentenced to
death. The sentence was later com
muted to life Imprisonment, and Mrs.
Kersh was senNto prison for 15 years.
Seid Wah Bing was murdered in the
rooms of Oi Sen, Chinese slave woman.
as the result of tong troubles, at 284
Flanders street, on September 20,
1911. Ol Sen fled, was captured at
Billings, Mont., later confessed to De
tective Joe Day, was not prosecuted,
but Wong Si Sam, an accomplice, is
serving 16 years.
BODY IS FOUND IN
TRUNK IN RIVER,
9 P. M. ON FRIDAY
The body of th murdered man, who
has been positively identified as John
Linnd of Boston, was found in a heavy
green wooden trunk in the river at
the foot of Flanders street about 9
o'clock Friday night.
The trunk was found there after it
had been in the water less than two
hours, at 6 o'clock by Fred Hartman,
proprietor of a lodging house at 25
North First street, as he returned to
his motorboat mooring after a fish
ing trip at Guild's lake.
Hartman laphed the trunk, went to
hifc rooming house for an as-slstant.
and after much effort they landed it
in the motorboat. Then Hartman
found the trunk was looked, and spent
more than an hour In finding' keys to
open It. Shortly after 9 o'clock he
lifted out the trunk till, and pUinc;
his hand down, struck the face of the
murdered man.
The police were at once notified.
the trunk was taken by the harbor
patrol to the municipal landing, and
the body, after much effort, whs ex
tricated and taken to the morgue. It
was clad only in a night shirt.
A blood soaked sheet and piilow case
were crammed into the trunk together
with two almost complete outfits of
ciotliing.
The man had been killed by a ter
rific blow in the forehead. A star
shaped wound in the skull, through
which the brnin exuded, hart been mad-;.
Laundry marks on the bedding, a few
pictures and some inconsequential
scraps of paper, offered the only clues
to his identification.
Although Detectives Price and Mal
lett at once started an Investigation,
nothing was turned up by the police
'glass, etc.,
until 10 o'clock yestertay morning,
when Mrs. Anna DeCorsey, proprie
tress of the rooming house at 405 Stark
street, excitedly Informed the police
that a murder had been, committed in
one of the rooms of her place.
Chief Glark, Captain Baty and all the
available detectives hurried at once to
the scene.
They found In a ground floor bed
room at the front of the house a bed,
through the mattress of which blood
had soaked through to the floor, and
blood was spattered on" the walls sev
eral feet away, in the room a quan
tity of odds and ends that had evident
ly been hurriedly torn from a trunk
were found.
Tiio police learned that last Monday
two men went to the rooming house
and paid in advance for a room for
the week.
They had previously gone to the
residence next door, occupied by Mri.
Jessie Althoff, but she could not ac
commodate them and hftd directed
them to apply to Mrs. DeCorsey.
Friday afternoon Mrs. Althoff told
the police a black topped buggy, with
black curtains, had driven up, and one
of the two roomers, with the assist
ance of a stranger, had borne a large
green trunk from the house, and it
was taken away.
Some time later the roomer returned
alone, took l.is baggage and left tha
Ihouse without a word to anyone.
The night berore, Mrs. ue corsey
told tiie poljce, this man, who has
been called fcd Hopkins'' by the police,
had at the slightest sound in the hall
of the house, opened the door and
poked his head out to look around.
Yesterday morning, when Mrs, De
Corsey found that her roomers had
left she went to "make up" the rooms.
On the bed she found to her surprise,
new sheets and pillow slips. Quickly
pulling back the sheets she found the
blood saturated mattress.
The morning before, she asserted, the
"big man" of the, two roomers had
asked permission to burn some trash
In the furnace, and made two trips to
the basement. Search of the asties In
the furnace yesterday revealed an
empty ink bottle, two aluminum match
boxes, a picture flattie and a muss of
charred papers.
A hatchet found In the house was
biought to police headquarters and
Btrtillon Expert Hunter, in tests yes
terday afternoon, found traces of
biood on Its blunt end. Whether or
not this Is human blood, could not tie
determined. The square head of this
hatchet may have been used to cause
the death of the man, ttie police be
lieve, because the skull Is smashed
somewhat In a star shape.
That the man was murdered as he
lay afileepe the police have no doubt.
The blow is on the side of the head,
and the arrangement of blood spots
would Indicate that the victim had
beer; prostrate when the blow de
scended. THE JOURNAL AIDS
IN IDENTIFYING
LINND'S COMPANION
According to a message from the
sheriff at Salem, received by Detective
SPrSa'it Joe Pay at midnight, the
man who accompanied l-lnml and who
i supposed to have been his murderer.
! has beeh Identified as George Barthol-
; emew.
j The sheriff stated that Barthole
mew'K relatives in the east have been
Jewelers Since 1868.
At Washington and Park.
Piatt Building.
Truth Will Endure
Right will win. The Feldenheimer
plan of selling jewelry is right.
The Feldenheimer Plan means the
most for your money.
The Feldenheimer Plan means one
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The Feldenheimer Plan means truth
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The Feldenheimer Plan assures you
of fresh, new, late style goods of highest
quality always.
We get a great deal of satisfaction in
looking at jewelry and silver sold by us
ten, twenty, thirty and forty years ago
and seeing how well it has worn this is
the real test of Feldenheimer quality.
In selecting Thanksgiving
or gtf silver you should
look into the years and
.select enduring quality.
We offer a complete stock of the latest patterns
of solid silver, silver plate, silverware, carving;
sets, Sheffield plate, the beautiful Tiffany Favrile
etc.
Before you buy you'owe it to yourself to
pare Feldenheimer quality and prices.
located. The identification was made
through a photograph published in The
Journal Saturday.
Linnd and Bartholemew came to
Salem from California, the sheriff
stated. Llnnd had been interested in
property there, while Bartholemew
was also a waiter at Seattle, Spokane
and Tacoma. the Sheriff reported.
LINND AND COMPANION
REPORTED AS HAVING
BEEN SEEN IN ALBANY
.lohn Liinnd ruxi lidward Barthole
mew, the man who now believed to
have murdered l.miut. receptly spent
two weeks at (lie home Of W. W.
Francis, county tren surer of Linn
county at Albany, ace .rding to word,
received by Finn. In h. Alkus, local
manager of the Burns detective
agency, at midnight.
The two n;en were looking for a
chicken laruh ;itil Llnnd oft '-red to
make cash psjmrnt of about $r0(H, ric
cording to the tneftsa.io. Two weeks
ago Mr. Alkus was notified by C. ('.
Schmitt, a prominent bunker of Al
bany, that two men. who were found to
be Lind and Hartholemew. w(Te at
tempting to pass some banking paper
of large. denominations which lie
thought was suspicious, and asked
that a man from Portland be ent to
shadow them.
At the time I. bind hml wiper f,h
Boston banks, mostly In deposit slips,
and c onsiderable cash. Mhuum r Alkus
notified Mr. Schmitt that he could
not Investigate the case until om
overt act had been committed, and thi
matter was dropped. While slopping
at Mr. Vrnnciv home, Unitd paidall
the bills, and Is said to have spent con
siderable time iii Investigating chicken
ranch prospects In the vicinity if
Albuny.
liast nght both Mr. Krniu Is and Mr.
Kchmilt saw the pit lures in the Jour
nal of the murdered man and the om
supposed to be his ulayer. and lliey
said at once that the two were the
same ifien who had been in Albany.
The men left that city about 10 days
ago, It whs reported.
Kugene Man Uncertain.
Eugene, Or. Nov. 2U. W. .1. Schs
ren, a farmer living near I'rrswell.
south of Kugene. at first thought the
man who vns murdered in 1'ortlnnd
and whose body was found In a trunk,
wu Harry Rogers, who worked f"r
him three years prev loirs to six weeks
ago, when he went to Portland
Win n shown' a nleture. SrhHt'cn was
! not sure tliHt It was that of his for-
mer employe. n nrn ivokcj ij irii nn
his upper front teeth were out and he
had sn'.il that he was going to Ret a
-set of fal.se teith soon.
Telegram Na "Hold Hotly."
At '.i.uki o eloek lant night the city de
tective bureau received a telegram
from l.a euport, lows, loading, ' Mold
body of man lounci in trunk. latter
follows." The incssuse was slgt.ed,
"H. I. Millninn."
SutnltM Kcnlp Wound.
I.. R. Dimlap. a laborer, aged .'.3
years, was slrin k by an automobile at
Tenth and Murnslde streets about 0
o'eloi k Saturday afternoon and taken
to the Cood Samaritan hospital, where
it was found that he had only rucelw-d
scalp wounds.
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