Show CONS conscience CIEN CE HAUN HAUNTED TED THE MURDERED OF THERESA HEATING KEATING CONFESSES HIS GUILT shrouded in deepest mystery fur for two and one halt half years the keating murder the sensation of the year at rochester Bo chester N Y Is now solved rhe conviction of august russell for the strangling tr angling of theresa keating on the night might of nov 20 1900 does not alone depend on the man mans s confession there Is corroborative evidence of the strongest kind the death of miss keating horrified the entire state officials were schied tor for failure to unravel the mystery the solution shows how such a crime may be committed and if the mur derer kep his own counsel remain unsolved why did russell confess after over two years of safe silence 9 because aio was haunted often in the night ie would awaken and shiver in dead ly tear fear at weird noises in his chamber its it s the ghost of theresa keating his wife would say to him and he would cower under the bedclothes russell russells s wife delighted in frightening him because he had often threatened to kill her as he did theresa keating he ile married her about six months after the murder and later confessed the crime to her she feared for her own life after that russell his wife says was subject to periodical nerve storms at such times he was like a maniac his ex by an alienist will be fol lowed by a careful investigation of his parentage criminologists will go beyond the seas and probe for a cause of his perversion and incidentally try to discover it if he did not flee to amer lea escape punishment for a crime similar to the murder of miss keat ing russell russells s forehead Is of medium beight the nose long and lips thick his ills ears protrude and are large there Is a shifty expression in the eyes he speaks with a sl foreign accent in a low tone when he talks his fore head wrinkles into scores of creases the eyebrows are shaggy he has a large amount of conceit as evi danced by his talk the prisoner was bom born in the village of sante Mag erieta belgium thirty nine years ago in 1885 kussell russell es conscription in the belgian army but to get money to join an ancle hers hera he enlisted for three 5 ears irce coming to this country he has been much of a rover he remained in rochester the night of the murder and the day fol following loving he ile has told how he walked from the person on the scene of his crime Is a method that director of detectives hayden has employed on several occa with remarkable the most notable case was that of arthur day dav of this city who pushed his wife over niagara gorge she was dashed to death on the rocks far below day protested his innocence until hayden took him to the brink of the fata fatal gorge where day imagined he saw his wife rise in the mist and point an accusing finger at him he ake down and confessed in the present case russell described exactly how the girl lay when he left her and what kind of clothing she wore this information he could not have obtained unless he had corn com 0 xa ep A acx Z ai 91 ano P h VAN R ak d lip XA q X X 1 IF Z ILI TA at A 5 4 I 1 X F 11 APLON jiovo jae 1 ar 2 arld udd tie a azu tioff ara V aha scene of the crime through the prin cipal business street to the empire concert saloon there he drank with women till aa 2 a m and after register ing under his own name went to bed the next day he wandered about the city and left for a small village awen ty miles away he has not been further away since the crime russell ell says he did not know for several days that his victim was dead he cannot read english securing a confession from a guilty 1 the murder because these facts were never published and were known only to a few officials there Is other evidence corroborative of russell russells a guilt which cannot be disputed the murderer ays he feels better since his confession than for mo months past he was on the point several times of giving himself up he told director hayden why youa asked hayden I 1 was afraid of the electric chair replied the prisoner |