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Show LUflED TO HER DEATH flf TELEPHONE CALL Beyond That Fact There Is No Clew to the Murderer of Miss Ida G. Leegson. POLICE LOOK FOR AUTO Switchman Said to Have Observed Ob-served Machine Near Scene of Crime. CinCAGO, Oct. 6. Miss Ida G. Leegson, art student, whoso undo body was found on tho prairie wcsl of here yesterday, was lured to her death by Home man who telephoned to her in response re-sponse to her advertisement for a place as a nurse. This was the- conclusion of the police tonight after more than twenty-four hours' search, which resulted, re-sulted, the police admit, in no trail which can direct them to the murderer. mur-derer. The thick silken fish line found near tho body and the bruised circle it had left around Miss Lccgson 's neck showed them tho manner of hor 'death, her tattered clothes strewn for half a milo along the road approaching tho prairie and the bruises on tho body indicated that death had" come only after sho had made a hard strugglo, but there was nothing found to show by whom Miss Leegson had been in-ducod in-ducod to visit the lonely spot on the western outskirts of the city. Advertised for Place. After giving up her position as a school teacher in Mason City, la., September Sep-tember 29, Miss Leegson eamo to Chicago Chi-cago and engaged a room with Mrs. .Tamos P. Buructte, saying sho was going go-ing to try to earn more monoy to continue con-tinue her art studies. Saturday she placed an advertisement in a paper ashing for n place as a trained nurse. Saturday afternoon a telcphono call camo from a "Mr. Wilson,' ' who, when told Miss Leegson was out, inquired in-quired closely after her porsonal appearance. ap-pearance. An hour later he called again and asked her to go to a point on tho west side to care for his wife. She left to answer the" call and was not heard from again by her frionds. The street address given by "Mr. Wilson" proved to be a vacant lot on the prairie. Lured to HcrDeath. The possibility that Miss Leogson was lured to hor death by an organized band of "while slavers,"' ' while being investigated by tho polico, is not believed be-lieved by them to offor a solution of tho mystery. An investigation among tho teachers at tho University of Chicago Chi-cago and at tho art. institute indicated that the murdered woman had been known for hor industry, thnt sho had no men friends and that her nights had boon spent in study. Hor death was tho result of strangulation, strangu-lation, according to Dr. T. .T. Springer, coroner's physician, who declared that from the appoaranco of tho body, Miss Leegson could not have bcon dead for more than an hour or so before it was discovered. October 22 was sot for the inquest. The police are searching for tho dark colored, high covered automobile described de-scribed bv William Salvage, a switchman switch-man on J ho Belt Lino road, who reported re-ported that he had seen such a car pass his crossing Saturday night and that it had returned an hour or so lator. Miss Lccgson'a hand satchel was found todav a block from where the bodv was found. It had bcon slashed with a knife and its contents, except a pair of stockings and a pieco of soap, removed. Career in Aurora. AURORA, III.. Oct. 6, Miss Ida Ioes-fion, Ioes-fion, who was Blaln. in Chicago Saturday, came to Aurora from Mllwaulcco In Uio foil of 1007 to take a position as a teacher teach-er of I3ng!tnli in Aurora college. Dr. T. J. Allon. president of tho school, pained widft noto by koIiik on a sixty-day diet of uncooked pcunuts to prove their food valuo and the test indirectly brought on a disputo with Mlsa L,cokhod as to her ualury. So cinnu to teach English. nho wild, but Dr. Allen willed upon her to liclp with his correspondence, which accumulated ac-cumulated nftor bo began hU monodlct. After this labor 3Ilss Leeton sued the doctor and got a judgment for J2I5. Dr. Allen's defense was that Miss Leegson stayed on In the college dormitory dormi-tory aftnr he bad discharged her for flirting with young men studentr. Sho denied tho accusation, admitting, bow-ovor, bow-ovor, that ho had smiled when the boys made humorous comment upon tho dlges-tlvo dlges-tlvo trials of Dr. Allen. MIhh Leegson had few acquaintances in Aurora, as she seldom left htr apartments apart-ments In tho collfgtf dormitory. |
