Show THE SALT CAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER If 1938 x I ' vA ' fry’ 7 Z$y -- Vi im l 4V ' JITST’'4 ' ' '’X A'M'iVVi'KijivWi By Jack Martin y Distinguished Crime Reporter A Fascinating Story who study and CRIMINOLOGISTS on the nation’s homicides unanimously label the unsolved slaying" of Joseph Elwell New York Auction Bridge expert as the century's crime” Some of the Expert one genuine "perfect murder-minde- d individual York City home unnoticed shot him to death out slippedunnoagain ticed I' A forever The slayer left not a single clue" and not gle fact a sinpoint- ing to his —or her— Identity was ever uncovered It is beyond probability now that the case ever will be solved The experts might have been forced to alter their beliefs recently for had it not been for the "hunches” of Colorado — and Montana — police officers the horribly brutal murder of winsome little Dorothy Drain Colorado high school sophomore might have been listed as another “perfect crime" The slaying of Dorothy and the brutal beating of her younger sister Barbara 12 was ultimately solved by the "hunches" and there are many other heretofore unpublished facts concerning the case which make it of outstanding importance On the evening of August 15 last Riley Drain a Rueblo WPA supervisor and his wife stepmother of the girls went ’ to a dance in a Pueblo night club and left the two little girls alone in the Drain bungalow When the parents returned about 3 a m they found Barbara unconscious Both girls had and Dorothy dead ugly gaping wounds in their heads The 'children evidently had been attacked as they slept Pueblo police found few clues The slayer or slayers apparently had entered the house through the front door which had been left unlocked A few I j Slayers v' f v fi f i w i" " P-- ir tail The two men had met on a street corner in Pueblo that Saturday evening and had learned that Riley Drain and his wife were to attend the dance and leave their daughters alone They went to Aguilar’s home and picked up the hatchet head and then went to the Drain home- where they waited In the back yard until they believed the girls were asleep Then they went into Pu-eb- lo 1 m A : wv insf 1 v- yey 3S25SE&- - n ' V Ft f 4 i' J t- i SPLIT ASUNDER— FOREVER This Unusual Composite Photograph Shows the Death Weapon (an Actual Photograph of the Hatchet Head) Slashing Into the Modest Drain Residence In l’ueblo Colorado— the House Where the Horrible Tragedy Occurred 6' k A Colo- rado officers begem checking his story The prisoner was smuggled Into Pueblo and secretly taken to the the crime And Drain home to there he proved conclusively that everything he had said was correct And furthermore he changed his story to Implicate Aguilar still held In the Pulblo jail as his accomplice The officers still denying that they were making any progress toward solution of the murder waited until nearly dawn that morning and then spirited Arridy and Aguilar out of the city and turned them over for safe keeping to Warden Roy Best at the state penitentiary before making announcement of Arridy’s confession And two days later they were able to announce that Aguilar also had made a complete confession which they were able to verify in every dect Trapped Two Horror and di- sappeared — authorities of his arrest and the Detective Work Which M lipped into Elwell’s pretentious New NO STONE UNTURNED— Bloodhounds Were Brought from the Colorado State Penitentiary to Pick Up the Trail of the “Phantom” Killer This Graphic Photograph Shows a Prison Attendant Working One of the Animals In the Rear of the House of the Dorothy Drain Tragedy In Pueblo Important roles in criminal Investigations Taken to police headquarters the man gave his name as Frank Aguilar He said he was 33 a WPA worker and the father of three young children He denied having any knowledge of the crime but there were several loopholes in his story and the officers decided to hold him for further investigation When they visited his squalid home they found several newspaper clippings of the murder mystery clipped out and tacked onto a wall But more important in k basket of firewood they fpund the rusty head of a hatchet which they took along with them on the chance that it might bo the greatly sought death weapon When Chief Grady Baw the hatchet head he immediately had photographs made of the girls’ head wounds and had these scaled up to actual size for comparison with nicks on the hatchet And in this comparison it became increasingly apparent that the hatchet might have been the weapon used in the crime Aguilar still denied any CAN’T WRITE HIS NAME! complicity The city and were Frank Aguilar a Mexican Father of practically certain that he was the Three Children He Met Arridy by Acman they wanted In the crime but cident and They Joined Forces In a while they built up their case they Frightful Morder A Policeman’s Hunch at a Funeral Trapped Dim were forced to keep their movements strictly under cover Feeling was so high in the city that they were confired a vital question at his prisoner: vinced that if word of their suspicions "If you like to go around with girls leaked out the prisoner whether so much why do you hurt them?" guilty or innocent probably would be "Well I didn’t mean to" was the lynched boy’s reply It was about this time that another —The prisoner gave his name as Joe officer’s hunch entered the case Sheriff Arridy his age as 21 He freely adGeorge Carroll of Cheyenne' Wyommitted that be had escaped from the ing was questioning a vagrant as a Colorado home for mental defectives usual matter of routine when he a few days earlier And he as freely learned that the youth who was defadmitted that he had killed “the two claimed Pueblo little girls in Pueblo” initely as his home town ”1 did it for meanness" he said "It Playing his hunch Carroll began they’ll let me alone I'll be good after questioning the youth as to his girl this" friends In Pueblo Then suddenly he Carroll promptly notified the Pueblo sMduuwS ff 'fort' h one-roo- m 'AWV jC2L MUST SUE HAVE DIED IN VAIN? This Unusual Photo of Pretty Dorothy Drain Is One of Very Few That Her Parents Have to Treasure She Was Brutally Slain as She Slept by Two Men In What Might Have Been a "Perfect Crime” Police Hope That Her Death May Bring About Better Control of Homicidal Mental Defectives - Obviously they had been left by the kiUer’s hands but none was clear enough to be called a first rate fingerprint On the Sunday following discovery of the crime the frantic city and county officers even called for bloodhounds to be brought to the scene from ’the state penitentiary at SHE SURVIVED Barbara Drain Sister of the Slain Girl She Was Horribly Beaten by the Depraved Killers But Recovered from Her Severe Wounds footprints were found in the back was yard leading to an alley clear enough to be classified as an Jbut-xion- e Identifying mark Nothing in the house had been disturbed no one had seen any stranger around the houae and little Barbara Drain was unconscious and unable to give the officers aid The detectives found several smudges bn the bedroom door and thesswere photographed ' Canon City In the hopes that the dogs might pick up the killer’s trail and a clue But so many persons had milled around the house of tragedy that the dogs were next to worthless As the hours wore onic became Increasingly apparent tbat Police Chief J Arthur Grady and other authorities were facing almost Insurmountable Yhe whole state was aroused as never before and the situation was intensified by the fact that only two weeks previous to this crime an elderly lady had been slain in Pueblo and' that crime wm officially unsolved'The city posted ?500 rewarij for apprehension of the Drain killer and this sum was matched by the officials of Pueblo x county On the day of Dorothy’s ser- Chief Grady assigned several-pickemen to mingle with the crowds on the that they might spot a suspicious character Killers not infrequently attend their victim’s funer- a's and the authorities were determ ined to overlook no opportunity Patrolmen R Earl Butler and N J Mikatich were two of the officers assigned to attend the services While they were standing outaide the chapel a wild-eye- d young Mexican walked up to them and began asking questions one after another "Where is Riley Drain?" the man demanded “I know him well I’m his friend 1 ought to see him I ought to go right in there and stay with him Why I knew the little girls very well —knew them by their first names" - The man babbled on and on Butler and Mikatich exchange4 glances and when they compared thoughts Jater they discovered that both arrived at the same conclusion simultaneously “This is the killer!" It was Just a hunch that the officers were following but hunches often play Copyright X funeral vices 1838 d county-authoritie- " feeble-minde- d Kins Tentures Syndicate Ine ' IN ASYLUM AT 10! Joe Arridy Feeble-Minde- d 8yrian Youth He Was Sent to a Feeble-Minde- d Home When He Was 10 Escaped Recently and Straightaway Set Out with Murderous Intent the house through the unlocked front door and killed Dorothy Barbara awakened and they knocked her unconscious with a blow from the hatchet head Barbara remained unconscious In the hospital for twelve days At Just about the time her attackers were confessing and District Attorney F L Taylor was announcing he would ask the death penalty she revived' and within a few days physicians were able to report that she would recover little the worse for her Injuries Aguilar the authorities discovered was definitely feble-mlnd- e His brother had been confined in a Colo- rado asylum before he was deported’ to Mexico Arridy had spent H of his 21 years In state institutions Citizens and police alike were hopeful that the case might result In more rigid laws for the control of feebleminded persons throughout the country Colorado In common with nearly every other - state does not have Institutions to 'Confine all who belong in them But possibly the slaying of little Dorothy Drain will result in financial appropriations to build more asylums so that her death may sot havb been In vain |