Show J AN N x UNACCOUNTABLE CASE SI 1 t I 1 i Probably the mo most t pu u murder case Ulse thu that t L ha has lias engaged ed the a attention of f nn flu court COUlt in the thc past P-1st twenty I V years cars Is Js that of oC young oung I of Chicago Chica Chica- go o accused of ot Iho tho murder mUrdel of oC Mrs hs h's Hol- Hol il ler It is s an Instance of the unac unac- countable There Is absolutely J i In Iii the usual causes causs to which the results i I.- I. this tills case can be lie attributed Is Js no un moral to tn point no Ic lesson on to lo hll T no warning h by iy which a repetition of or f the deed may xray be bo avoided n Ivens I Is twenty four years relUS old tho the S son of an honest holIest an and thrift thrifty carpenter 1 S n J workman of ot skill Im himself and p t young fellow of no habits worse WOlge than thap If an nn occasional bottle hottle of ot l beer eer He lie was S 4 nut given I cn to vile company compan did dill not nol fr fV- fV 11 j i r i quant dan dane daure e halls balls behaved cl at al JJ i Jl tast ast within the law at all al lived r r at home and 1 kept fail fairly good S He was wa not Ilot noted nohl for 01 his IllS excellence nc 4 j lut iut fl no oie one Ofle of or the neighbors would I J l J have ae called caned him hini a bad or dangerous fellow S Mrs rr Ir I the victim was a singer r in church chol choirs a good house house- i J Kieper n nearly arb thirty years Cr old wife lc S i o ur a prosperous man moving mo in good t i i circles against whom never nc a n breath S. S of or suspicion had been cast cast She was f l J one Olt of a numberless i nI army mry ny of gor-d gor orl omen who are unknown I 1 j One da day she he left to sill sing ing at a t. t funeral She Is known to have visited P. P o D. number 0 of stores stOIC in iii th the tho neigh our our- ICO of or her hou house 11 buying I the day tIny groceries and attending to lo some mme tri tri tv ii Ia Ial tal matters mailers and tl th then n a she w. w was lost lot ull ut- ut l Next morning her body was wa on a pl pile e of ret refus e behind the Iho table o of Iveus an aiRl l lh young young- maii n S. S went nl to e d p lift horse rS lf r i i 11 v 1 the discovery v ry ry rr and acIA accused ac- ac IA of the crime of murder young i- i Ivens confessed on on at nt least two occasions oc oc- oc- oc S that that he ho had caught the ii 1 woman oman as she passed on the tho farther side of the thc street that thai that he h he t hor ht to walk across the In the early ly all du dusk k of the evening that IlS Il h hr he S r jl t look toJ ok her into the stable t bl and killed her id J throwing the thc body laier out on Oil Cn thiLi the thi Li h lu ap of foul t. t Part of his confession lon I Is cei true hUe All Al of it i he hc now repudiate de- de darIng he knows g of ot what t hap r. r t after afler tr 1 his l ari and I wu t that il ii 1 he 1 J made e a cOr slon lon ft At t 1 Is 1 nol hOt tot 1 tf But a-But But arc aro n aln l t him When he caught her the I under which h h was IS taken n to thu sin sla- 4 I 1 IES IE- IE S hj blo where e cre she was during the tho dj 1 y t the these c things are cre still tm n. But Bul hi lits I horrible ible crime cLime Is hs fixed and Inescapable S Now ow here I h is a ca cuc e that cannot b be tie traced ll to the saloon aloon nor nOl to lo vilo com com- tf ti til l' l lt lo to o maudlin reading iu nor r to lo lothe the temptation of oC a woman nor nOI to lo NI of oC the vicious f causes which so 0 ft-c ft account for crime and yet ct a amore t t. t ane j more unspeakable tragedy b ha has not nol 4 been recorded We do 10 not know kno a blacker ca case c one mote more mor fraught with wih V 4 L 1 ing IncIdents nor ono one i T with wih fewer mitigating circumstances clum S o police J e eP P protection Ion could hay hayo pre ha pro pro- iii S. S n IH I Il u excepting me Lile tlC mere chance i o of a policeman pasting passing No o care cate on th the of f the thc woman or lieu her he husband or i id i'd d i friends could have ha saved ed her hOt No o dif dif- t 7 71 In the habit of the bo boy co could 1 4 i have hn made il it seem t. teel Jes less Ies 1 likely that ho i turn criminal l i II It I Is simply one of tie the Inexplicable one y CI el of oC the lie mont mon- mon t- t Tho The best that can cal now he be bedone r ri t done lOtte will wt be ho the quick extinction of or Vy J young Iven life and aUth the tho numbed i 5 wondering wO healing of ot the wounds t f Nothing can cnn explain or mitigate the 4 horrors honors of such uch a n case l ft |