| Show f h. h r I IA A STRANGE MURDER WAS DUE DUB TO HYPNOTIC IN IN- IN FLUENCE Soldier Kin Clergyman Murderer Claim III 1111 Victims Victim Divorced Divorced Wife Hypnotized Slim Him While It Is I. Coo Coo- tended That lie lio Jn Influenced Her lIeI In abject abject abject ab ab- terror In a cell In n the little Jail at Waukegan II IlL sits Carl fort formerly formerly for for- t merly a soldier in inthe th the Fifteenth In Infantry Infantry In- In fa fantry try U U. S. S A. A I who It Is charged as the result of hypnotic influence exerted by the divorced divorced divorced di di- di- di wife or ot the Rev Samuel Breakwell Breakwell Breakwell Break- Break well cut the throat of the preacher on the public street of the village of d last last wee week On the other hand Is accused of having exerted exerted exerted ex ex- ex- ex a similar Influence over the di divorced divorced divorced di- di wife wite of th the murdered man and was the cause of the separation of the couple It It is a strange and in in many respects a revolting story The divorced Mrs Breakwell Is seventy eight years old and the skin on her face Is puckered Into a thousand wrinkles She was the second wife of the murdered man who was many years younger than she and after atter the divorce the husband married a much younger woman who survives him The second Mrs Breakwell was the mother of three children one son and two daughters who are married and live in the vicinity Is a surly fellow forty-five forty years old and lived In the house with aged Mrs Breakwell Break Break- well In fact the couple have resided In the house for several years and Mrs Breakwell lived there when her husband obtained the divorce on the ground of desertion The victim was a Baptist minister and for a year past had a charge In Darlen Darien Wis He was a retired merchant and had accumulated considerable property in the town of Highwood and the surrounding country The house houseIn In which Mrs Breakwell and lived JIved was built with the money of Mrs Breakwell ll and her husband but after the divorce Mrs Breakwell deeded or signed her share to Mr Breakwell Breakwell Break Break- kwell k- k well claimed his share in the house on on- the ground that he be had loaned her money with which to complete It and it was the old clergyman's s 's attempt to obtain possession of the the property property that led to the murder A constable notified Mrs Breakwell and arid two weeks ago that they must vacate and claims he was driven to desperation beca because se the minIster minister min mm- ister later would show him no mercy The n murder urd r. r w was was one n of the most fiendish atrocity On Wednesday August August August Au Au- gust 17 the aged clergyman came down from Darlen Darien to visit his children As Ashe Ashe Ashe he was was was' walking along the principal street of Highwood his Bible Dible under his arm stole up behind him and seizing him by bythe the beard cut his throat severing the Jugular vein As the victim fell t tie the e frenzied murderer murderer murderer mur mur- derer stabbed him time and again in inthe inthe inthe the face and throat cutting his nose orrand off orr and Inflicting most hideous wounds Pet ke then gave himself up and c claimed to o h have E acted in self defense although the dead man was unarmed and fully twenty-five twenty years older than his murderer Owing to the excited state of the public mind was hurried off orr offo to o the Jail at Waukegan and a strong guard put over him to prevent mob violence dolence What was the Influence the aged dIvorced di divorced divorced dI- dI wife had over and what could have been the cause of her great liking for him says the Rev Mr Breakwell was so stingy and mean that his wife was forced to leave him and that he be took her In out of pity She She refused to go back to him and he obtained a divorce on the ground of y III II A Ins I IHl CARL The Soldier 1 Murderer ur d desertion shortly afterward marrying i t younger woman Samuel Breakwell son of the murdered murdered mur- mur dered man says had exerted ind and exercised an undue influence over his mother for years and that had it sot not been for the divorce would never have come about L 1 7 7 t j o y T y S 'S Young Breakwell is a believer in spiritualism as well as hypnotism and says that he has talked with his fathers father's fathers father's fathers father's fath fath- ers er's spirit several times since the murder mur mur- der He Is kind enough to say that his mother was influenced by but there are others who say was und under r the influence of the old woman The latter did not go to the funeral and as the cortege was making its way to the cemetery cemetery Mrs Breakwell was waiting at the Jail to Interview the murderer She did not see the victim after he was stricken down although her children say she would not have been turned been turned away She had lived with the dead man more than thirty-five thirty years Mrs Irs Breakwell always spoke of at her husband as a tyrant and came cameto cameto cameto to regard her as a wom wom- an Living In the same house with the divorced wife and hearing heatIng her constant constant constant con con- stant plaints fearing that disaster would overtake them and both be driven driven driven en into the street he brooded over the situation until as he claims he became became became be be- came desperate He says the influence of Mrs Breakwell Breakwell Breakwell Break- Break well was such that he could not resist doing what he did but he claims he cannot tell what that influence was He asserts that the aged minister in- in a a I m I i 91 F THE DIVORCED DIVORCED MRS BREAK BREAK- WELL suited and reviled him every time they m met t and drove him crazy with hIsta his ta taunts He JIe is a a pitiable object now as he sits sIt's in his his cell cell fearful of f the fate that awaits him as a consequence of his cr crime me and his keepers think he Is upon the verge of madness His only vl visitor Is Mrs Breakwell who however however however how how- ever falls fails to cheer heer him with h her r presence presence pres pres- ence or or her words of encouragement H Her r liliI influence en e over him Is gone gone ne I These two constitute E fit a strange Con cou pIe was the company tailor in his regiment and anc met Mrs Break Mrs Mrs Breakwell Break Break- kwell k- k well at Fort Sheridan when she came there thereas as a a. nurse in the families of the officers She went out nursing al although although al- al though her her hu husband ban was rich and soon sh and began occupying the house He said he built the house wJ while lle Mrs Mars Breakwell owned the lot loti th that t h he borrowed and th that t lilt Mi Breakwell Induced the lender of the them m money ney to sue him This led to t to the murd murder murder r. r says the clergyman put his wife out of his house and refused to support her and that i is to why she went to she sho having n no other ther place to go He claims that that Mr Breakwell used the vilest language langu language lan lan- gu guage ge toward him and that he was abusing him when th the murder occurred oc oc- oc- oc The Rev Mr Breakwell's life was wasa a a. mixture of romance and hard business business busi busi- ness ness sense Forty orty years ago he was a well to tradesman n In an English village His wife dying he married he her sister a a. widow named Mrs Jane Speers notwithstanding the English law did not recognize marriage with witha a dec deceased ased wife's wite's sister This wife was the Mrs 1 Breakwell who lived with To further complicate matters the second wife's son by her first husband married her husbands husband's daughter by his first wife and this cre created ted dissensions dissensions dissensions dis dis- dis- dis and quarreling Her husbands husband's husbands husband's husbands husband's hus hus- bands band's children by his first wife declare declare declare de de- clare the second wife was grasping and constantly d demanded money They say this is how she got the money to buy the land upon which house was built These stepchildren also say their stepmother had a most violent temper temper temper tem tem- per and being older than their father had great Influence over him Just as she had over later on Her lIer enmIty enmity enmity en en- mity it is claimed was particularly directed toward her niece and stepdaughter stepdaughter step step- daughter who had married her her- son Breakwell's estate worth or more will go to his children by his first and second marriages and his present wife He has no children by his latest marriage |
