Show CHICAGO POLICE UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY BARTHOLIN OF MURDER CHICAGO Aug 14 The H.-The The police pollee obtained ob ob- ob tamed their first clue due of or value In the Bartholin case tonight and developments developments developments develop develop- ments that will co o far tar toward solving I the mystery are expected within ty four hours t Inspector Hunt last night found a woman who declared that at daybreak on the morning following the night in Iii which Miss Mitchell disappeared in I company with William she raw Faw Oscar Oacar son driver for a Do laundry company compan and antl who Is now held In custody by the police pollee John Claffy the barn boss for for- th the tho am same name concern and a n. man wearing a n. Panama hat and anI anda a dark sack coat In front of oC the laundry at daybreak The They were vere standing be beneath henE he- he nE neath nEth th a bright arc light and she v sn t them em plainly She resided d' d In the f I neighborhood and nd knew both men well While the police have ha always cont con- con t ndel that Thompson who was a boarder in the thc howe houie of ot Mrs Irs Bartholin had harl knowledge of Tier her cr death they hadnot hadnot had not suspected that be he was in any ny way connected with tho the murder of or Minnie Minniel Mitchell l i lI I. I I Officers were at once sent In search of or and he was taken Into custod custody cus eus- tOIl tod tody without difficulty Thompson was then called into the tho of oC the inspector and Informed that thal he had been seen with and Bartholin on the morning following the night of or the killing killing- of or the Mitchell girl fhe The information had a marked effect up upon n Thompson and he seemed for a moment on the point of oC collapsing He lie rallied however cr and declared that he heas I was vas not ot there and knew nothing nothing- of or the affair After Arter the interview Inspector Hunt declared that he was more than ever Impressed with the tho opinion that Thompson had guilty knowledge of or tho the murder o of Mrs Bartholin and he thought tho before long rhom Thompson sort will weaken and tell what hat he knows The rhe woman last night was confronted with rith Thompson and while he was forced to lo admit that he knew her and that she knew him he hc denied the story stor- ClaIT daffy after Thompson was confronted confront confront- t ed edwith with the woman In black binck He lie at first said he did not know her but immediately immediately im In- mediately admitted that ho did when she called him by name name Claffy Clarty I la is a a. aman aman man about aboul c 45 4 years ears old The woman repeated the story in exactly the same wa way she told it at nt first Claffy Clarry denied being with Thompson and Bartholin at lt tho the time and was as immediately locked up tip |