Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-10-11 | Page 1 | Youth Charged With Murder of Woman

: YOUTH CHARGED WITH M MURDER OF WOMAN P Nlr CHICAGO, Oct. 10. Lumau C. Mann, r jjjw twenty-three years old, the son of a wealthy business man residing in Oak I ml' Park, was arrested today on a warrant 1 lh' charging him with the murder of Mrs. I. IM Fannie Thompson, who was round (j aft strangled in a rooming house at 1241 n 4L, Michigan avenue on July 3. Mann n . J ( was arrested in Philhpsburg, Pa., I 14 whero ho had been sent as a traveling 'j ' salesman for a Chicago firm. j ' Mrs. Thompson had residod at tho j Michigan aveuuo house for two days ' with a man, the couplo registering as . ; , Mr. and Mrs. Raymond. When her f body was found tlio hands and feet '; were securely tied and a cord had been ' drawn about her throat. Thcro wero in- 4 : dications that tho woman had been Jf tortured to death. Tho polico hunt for i : rJL tho man who had gone to the houso ' . with her was unavailing, although a I l-mf scoro of arrests were made. It was Jfl learned that Mrs. Thompson had been A ''M, employed as a servant in tho home of r M s O. C, Maun, father of the prisoucr, rj W several months prior to her death. 1 M Mann's father and a lawyer woro at I , the railway station when Detective ?' -iV ! Norton and tho prisoner arrived, and j; im,' on tho advice of the attorney, tho son t; 'A refused to answer any questions put to J " J him bv the police. Mann is alleged to j! imt -I have boon identified as the mysterious , '41 " Raymond " by the housekeeper of the U i Miclngau avenue roomiug house .who 1; M 1 had conversed with him several times. ( '; n