Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-02-03 | Page 14 | Trunk Murder Mystery

TRUNK MURDER MYSTERY Yount Man f n I Is Accused of or Murdering l Aged Woman Berlin Feb FebA 2 A r murder trial Just commenced at ft Cas CaMel Cassel ol r recalls ealA In iii its IH dc- dc tails both the thA Moat farm nn and the Ku- Ku KI- KI burn hurn trunk cn The he a accused Wilhelm wll- wll 1 helm nelm Meyer Is I a n young oung furniture healer denier anti and d decorator tor He lie had ant 0 1 J emigrated emi emi- grated to the United States nn and re re- re turned th thence with wih a woman much older than himself who hmo possessed some means mean and ant whom he ho seems ems to have ha mot met casually while employed asa asa as a shop assistant tant This woman Maria Maritz Ma Ma- lurIa lu- lu ria ritz Yo Vogel el pa Passed as ns his aunt and as the he he was j 74 4 no suspicIous suspicions t were aroused ant when th they settled lle down together at Bad Dat Wildungen ol Nor or was Avas it I ver very ery dir dif for Cor Meyer to 10 give gho a plausible explanation when she s-he disappeared from the place On the tho same Mme da day he hc sent senta a 0 large American trunk to lo Frank Frank- fort Con to be kept till tl called caled for and im Immediately afterward married marriel c ayoun a ayoung youn young woman from a u respectable fern fam II I ily with whom ho he It set et out on a n journey jour jour- jou ney ny professedly ledl to Hn Italy Owing to a u disagreeable odor In Inthe inthe the tw warehouse at Frankfort tort Franl all al the time packages there thero w were re re examined an anI cud and It was waR as found that Meyers Meyer's trunk I contained con con- the decomposed ed bod body of Miss Vogel which had been heen ere co covered with chloride o of lime Police investigations a- a showed that Meyer cr and anc his hil bride c cha ha had sailed for the United States tates and lie he was arrested on his arrival on onboard onboard board loarl the steamer His Ills explanation of fl time the affair Is 18 that lint coming coining homo home one day he found round Miss Mis dead In her chair anti and placed her hm body In the tho trunk because sc he feared 1 to lo to bo be accuse ac- ac accused ac cc- cuse of murdering her since it 11 was I known no n that he hi had liall r. frequent quarrels I with her