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Show I i AWrUL DEED OF ' I : ... HESSE OF OGDEN M , . . H , "Man Who Marries an Ogrten Girl Had Put Two Women to Death H f " and Thrown Their Bodies Into a Well How the Crime Was H j Unearthed Graphic Description of the Lifting of H, ( I the Bodies From an Old Well. , . H ' That E. B. Hesse, who escaped from H his home at 1527 Washington avenue H I j just before the officers searching for H him reached that place, and who a H t j number of months before had married H Louisa Yarrington, an Ogden girl, was 1 j a man of deep villainy, Is brought H out by the following story of tho un- Bv covering of his murderous crimes, tak- H ( en from last Saturday's Chloftaln of fl Tccumsch. Nebraska: H Finding the Bodies. H i Something like four yoars ago. E H I E. Hesse, his wife and step-daughter, H , Wauneta Laverno McMaster, came :o Tocurasoh to live from Wymorc. Mr. Hesse being employed by the Burl- ington as a foreman of bridge con- mW etructlon, the most of his work helnt; Hj on the Wymoro division. Lator tho 1 family invested In a small house and Hl ' k lot "on First street, near the fair V' i I grounds, Hesse seemed to bo rather H non-communicative and made Tow, If j anv, friends. He was a good work- 1 I man and possessed the ability to ?ot 1 j good work from his men. Mrs. Hesso. H -who was divorced from McMaster, B her former husband still living, was B not in tho best or health. She suffered H with an eve trouble. Dining the win- tcr and spring of last year, 1010, the 1 J , lady made frequent visits to Omaha, 1 f and to Lincoln, where her ailments i were treated. At that time, her daugh-H daugh-H ter, then sixteen years of age, was r ' employed as an operator In the local 1 station of the Bell Telephone com-Bl com-Bl I pany. I On tho ISth of? July. 1910. Wauneta H ! gave up her position at the telephone H office, it hclng understood that her-H her-H . self and mother were going to Lln-, Lln-, , coin for a short time On Friday. H July 22, Mr Hesse employed James B Clutter, a teamster, to haul dirt to Bl his house to fill an old Unused well H- Mr. Hesso had the well covered with H; plank and he would have Mr. Clutter p dump the dirt near the well and while B Mr. Clutter had gone for another B load of dirt he, Hesso, would removo B the plank and shovel the load just B left Into the well, covering It again B , before Mr. Clutter's return Mr. Clut-B Clut-B ter saw no one about the place that B day except Mr. Hesse. About 1:00 B; o'clock on the following mornlnc Bl H Saturday, July 23. the Hesse house BJ ( was discovered to be. in flames and Bj J the alarm was soimded. The fire had gained such headway before the H alarm was sounded that the building H , was almost completely wrecked. The H contents of tho building, too, were B nearly all lost. Mr Hesse, who B "' claimed that his wife and daughter B' jl were in Lincoln, said that he haa H y slept In a bunk car at tho depot. Ho j was late arriving at tho fire and had H ; but little to say H ' Following the flrq. upon being H asked why his wife and step-daughter H V I did not return, Hesse contended that mW l it Mrs. Hesse hart written that she could HLLJ'l not boar tho thought of returning and mW Tfil finding the home in ruins. He said H ' J' his wife was In such health that he H J was going to send her, and the step- H I daughter, to Colorado, believing the H j f change would be beneficial. A week B or so after the fire he claimed his B family had gone to Colorado Mr. B Hesse kept his headquarters in Te- mWm cumseh, his work taking him from the 2i city considerable, until after October BH i j 5, 1910, nearly three months after tho B Are. He boarded at the Tecumseh H J ' House, and when asked as to his wlfo B jl and child by fellow boarders held to H-;l the storv already told. Mr Hesse re- H' signed bis position with the railroad H? company on October 15, 1910, and. Blji within a few days, left the city, ostcu- B ! , slbly for Denver where he said he B ' would join his family Before leav- H ' ing Tecumseh he settled up all his B r affairs. Ho collected about 5830 in Hm insurance on house and contents from mWM, the fire, which it Is now believed he B, set, paid his taxes and bills at tho B; stores, etc. At a later date he sent Bu dues t0 thc local lode of Masons- ot Bjl which he was a member, from Salt mWfi Lake City. B James Clutter, the teamster, B'' "smolled a mouse" Things did not 1 look, just right to him in the filling of B() the old well and he contended that Bt1 there was foul play, holding to the K' tbeorv that the bodies of Mrs. Hesso B 1 and, daugbter were in the well. He B) I' ! , went to the city authorities and aske 1 Hgt ' ' that an Investigation be made, but H l no one seemed to give his Ideas con- f h eidcratlon. Friends were appealed mM to and these friends asked the county B t to look Into the matter, without suc- B I , cess. Finally the matter weighed H I upon Mr. Clutter's mind to that ex- B V. ' tcnt that, ho, with two friends, Isaac B'. - Clark and John Bcatty, proposed to ' do a little Investigating upon-their i J own responsibility. Monday a 2 1-2- H ' i Inch hand augur was secured and, at B I sunset, the trio went to the old well. H, ' They said they went in the evening so ' that in case" thev found nothing their H ' friends would not be advised ot their H action. AVithln two hours the augur Bl () stnick something that did not feel H y like dirt to the workmen. Tho augur H was withdrawn and with It came a H terrible odor. On the tool were two B. 'portions of a woman's gauze undor- shirt, the largest being a little larger Br than tho hand and the smallest about K the bize of a half a dollar. With it HjS came two portions .of flesh, one per- 1) haps as large as a person's finger, !and the other somcwh'at smaller. This find was made at a depth of perhaps fourteen or fifteen feet. The men took . " their find to J. K. McDowell's drug ' store and the surgeons who ox H B ' amlned It wero willing to stake their B( r reputations upon it that the flesh was j ; that of a human being. Sheriff E. L. K Itoberts was notified and began at H . once an effort to locate Hesso, tole- ' t f grams being sent to Colorado, Wash- Kj ' ington and other points. Wmi The authorities arranged at once to B''; have the well dug out A windlass Bl t was secured and put over the well Hji t early the next morning and a corps of Hy bait a dozen men went to work. HlI ' Charles Pickering did the digging and ra others handled tho bucket. Early in Bjj the morning the news of the find be- B f came known and citizens proceeded to mWm , '. tho scene of the well Sheriff Roberts WmM kept the crowd hack to the fence about B the place, he being obliged to have B s thq help of two or three deputies to B ; , carry out the order. Excitement was Bl j intense and all manner of stories be- K3;' came current on the Gtrcet. The dig- r;i gng went along without unusual in- Bi. cldent until noon when an hour was taken for dinner. Shortly after noon Mr. Pickering sent up the word that he had struck something that seemed to him to be a skull. This fact was established when tho next few buck-ots-ful of dirt brought locks of woman's wom-an's hair with them. Mr Pickering found the body of Mrs. Hes60 to bo rather in an upright position, some fourteen or fifteen feet below tho surface; sur-face; the lower limbs being where the water caused the mud to bo very moist He dug tho mud away from the same the best he could, and Coroner Coro-ner Snell went into tho well. A rope was lied under tho arms of tho corpso and fastoned to the windlass rope. It was then drawn to the surface, being be-ing so well preserved that the withdrawing with-drawing It from the mud by main force did not cause It to separate. Just before it was brought out of the hole It was covered with a sheet aG best possible, and Dr. J. C. Bowman, who was assisting the coroner, advised ad-vised the timid to withdraw from the scene. No one left though one woman wom-an fainted when the body waa brought up. l: was placed on an oilcloth oil-cloth on two planks and later in a box. The lower limbs of the woman seemed seem-ed to he In a better state of preservation preserva-tion thnn the portion of the body found in tho dryer dirt. She had evidently had light clothing on, but no corset and no shoes or stockings. Later a large fracture was found In tho top of the skull as it made by a blunt instrument. Tho men were compelled to come out of tho well, owing to the odor, and work was postponed post-poned for about an hour. Mrs. Hesse's body was brought up at 2:15 d'clock. Lime was poured In-to In-to the woll and Mr Pickering proceeded proceed-ed with tho work Less than two feet below the location of Mrs. Hesse's body was found a bundle of four bricks, tied together with a wire, which had evidently been usel as a weight on the body. Then a braid of human hair, presumed to be that of the girl was found, and next a large stone, weighing perhaps as much as fifty or sixty pounds. It proved that this stono was on the body of the unfortunate un-fortunate girl, weighting It down Mr. Pickering dug the earth away from the body of the girl, and when tho word went up town that the second body had been found the excitement wns renewed and the crowd at the lot enlarged. The water was getting into the well quite badly, the stench was almost beyond endurance and Mr Pickering was getting very tired and about exhausted, in fact This body was in such a bad state of decomposition that to lift it as was done with the other was out of the question. The head was lying lower than the lower limbs, and the body was in" somewhat of a cramped position. posi-tion. The rope was tied under the arms and a pair of ice tongs were fastened below tho hips and these were attached at-tached to the hoisting rope. When the body .had been made fast Mr. Pickering came to the surface, staggering and pale, and advised all tho people to removo from the awful scene that was to follow NTo one left. When the power was applied, to the windlass and the body swung into the air particles of flesh dropped from tho corpse and later it developed that a band was missing. When near the surface it was covered with a sheet as best possible. When It was laid on the planks the bones left their position and the flesh dropped from the bones. It was taken at once to tho morgue. The skull of the daughter, daugh-ter, also was crnckod. That Hesso was pretty good in covering cov-ering up his tracks has been demonstrated demon-strated Young ladles of this city received re-ceived postcards purporting to come from Wauneta Lavern McMaster from Colorado points after the young lady had been murdered and one of tho Miss Stephens received a letter that was presumed to bo from Miss McMaster, Mc-Master, from Trinidad, Colo. In this letter tho author said that her mother moth-er was gaining in health and they were enjoying Colorado very much Caution Cau-tion was given the recipiont not to mention the fire when answering, as it disturbed Mrs. Hesse very much This was tho work" of the murderer. Isaac Clark had contracted with Hesse for his lot but could not get a deed. Hesse promised to sond the paper away for the signature of his wifo, and, at about tho time lie left, he said he had neglected It but would take the paper with him and send it back to Mr. Clark. It Is said that while the Hesse fam lly lived in the east part of tho city, Mr Hosso filled an old well and caused a now one to bo sunk. Out of curiosity the people living over there are going to ask the authorities to dig this well out. It is hardly thought It will reveal anything, but there aro those persons, who arc In a state of high nervous excitement over the events of tho week, that will allow themselves to believe there was foul play there They think possibly Hesso murdered McMaster and cov-ored cov-ored his body there, though from all information wo can secure, McMaster nevor visited Tecumseh. At a special meeting of the board of county commissioners, Wednesday, it was decided to offer a reward of $G00 for tho apprehension and conviction con-viction of Hesso. As a general thing the state offers 5200 in the case of a single murder. Governor Aldrlch was communicated with and asked as to whal the state would do. He said it would givo $100 at least nnd that ho would give the nature pf the crime consideration and prohablv a greater sum would bo offered. This makec the total reward $1,000. Tho deFcription being sent out ot tho murderer is as follows: About five feet, nine inches in height; woight about 1C5 pounds; blondish hair; forty-five to fl?.ty years old blue eyes, larsc nose, red face, high cheek bones; smoothly shaven; quiet disposition. Ho.-had been previously, married, divorced, fand his first wife-Is said to bo living'' Mra. Hesse 'was some forty or forty-two years of age. ""'The Hesses' aeg!sald to have come from Virginia flevbral yearc ago to fi uriorts on ' loiortfl NobncVn Airs Hesse claimed that her relatives were wclj'to do The officers hve failed to i locate any of them. Many theories advanced as to the ' motive that prompted Hcsae In this awful crime. In some ways it looks as though it was premeditated and deliberate, while there are somo indications of tho act being committed commit-ted In a beat of passion. Hesse Is uald to be a jealous, high tempered man. and It is possible that In n fit of anger he killed his wife, and was then compelled to make away with the girl to save himself. In this caBe if to wondered why there was no nutcry from either of the- women A lady living not far from the Hosse home ib, firmly of tfio opinion that she heard screa'ms In that direction on tho nigh: It Is supposed the murder occurred. In this tho lady admltB she might be mistaken co |