St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 14, 1901

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She is the daughter of George Lundy, a urneyman tailor. Her brother, William H. ndy, is a driver for the Waters-Pierce @gency here. Her sister, Mabel Lundy, is empioyed in a bookbindery. Before her ‘marriage to Rathbun Susan also worked In a bindery. Charlies 8 McKown, brother-in-law of Mre. Rathbun, is a pressman in the office of the Little Rock Printing Co. All the members of the Lundy family are hard- working people and stand well among those who know them. They have never before been connected with any case in wh.ch their mames figured in the courts. Susie is the younger of the two daughters and is the pet of the family. The report that Rathbun had confes:ed that his wife was implicated in the plot Was apparently a great surprise to the Rathbun household. At first Mr. Charles McKowan doubted the story. He said there was absolutely no ruth in the statement that Mrs. Rathbun, is wife's sister, knew ering: about the insurance policies taken by her husband. “This statement by the man in Louls- " he said, “‘convinced me more than have heard coming from him not my brother-in-law. Susie ever said anything to me about her hus- Bana having insured his life.”’ Mrs. Rathbun Not to Be Seen. The Post-Dispatch correspondent called at Mr. McKowan's residence and requested an interview with Mrs. Rathbun. The lady was Suffering from nervous prostration, and the day had A physician was attend. nm unconscious, the her, and no one was allowed in room except Mrs. McKowan, her sister. The latter said that Mrs. Rathbun was lily aware of the fact that her husband insured his life. for she had to.d her that he hed. She made no secret of that, said Mrs. McKowan. “But she was not connected with any p!°’ defraud the insurance company,” said rs. McKowan. “That you can rely on. hy, Susie couldn't have kept such a Be- cret as that for a minute. would have been ithe first one to whom she would have come and told all about it.’’ When Farrar McCain, the attorney for as, Rathbun, heard the story of Rathbun’'s plicating his client in the plot, he went JOs.F RC JAINS, Who, his wife says, ended his life to save her and their three children. a Mrs. Ida Robbins is endeavoring to collect $2000 on an insurance policy from the gen- eral officers of the Ancient Order of United Workmen on the theory that her husband, who named her as beneficiary, and who dis- appeared on Jan. 18 last, is dead. In support of her theory that her husband is dead, Mrs. Robbins told Grand Master Workman Miller of the A. O. U. W. that her husband: had frequently threatened to ‘ +c ae immediateiy to the McKowan residence io consult with Mrs. Rathbun. When he arrived she was unconscious end after waiting a half hour went away without seeing her. While Mre. McKowan admits that her Sister knew that her husband's life was in- she denied that her sister anything to do with the alleged lot to defraud the company. She talked th her on the subject, without intimat- @ to her that any charge of conspiracy been hade and learned from the inter- view that her sister was in total ignorance of the amount of insurance obtained by her usband. All she knew was that her hus- nd had insured his life for her beneftt. he knew nothing of the amount nor did he know the name of the company that ued the policy. MURDER IS NOW THE CHARGE Rathbun Taken to Indiana—The Cor- oner Explains His Blunder in Not Holding Autopsy. From a Post-Dispatch Staff Correspondent. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 14.—The fate of Newel ©. Rathbun now rests with the Indiana authorities to whom he was turned Over last night by consent of the United States government, the charge of deser- tion from the army giving way to the Sore serious charge of murder. ° Rathbun's escort from the ferry to the “We tought that you was dead!’ Claner; money. She told him how she was support- ing her old mother, in addirion to her three small children, and iow her tired fingers plied the needle day and night that she might eke out a small pittance, making ‘ad lay down an’ croak?’’ shirts and dresses, and how the woefu!] naps 7 small amount she thus secured was wie Mr. Clancy carried his empty yoo ffic ‘essari ,his hand. He had werked all day ona sufficient to obtain life's necessaries for es two or three miles away, and had not creek at an angle in the ditch on the farm of Thomas Austin, a short distance this side of the asylum and = opposite the Stockwell farm on the Slaughter avenue road abvut a mile north of Evansville. “IT do noi believe that if the point at which the body of Mrs. Stark was found had been marked with a stick or ston said Coronor Walker, today, ‘‘that it could have been any more exactly located. The body of the Renner woman yas lying, as well as I can reaneEEeee on the he emg spot, and lying in the same position, 0 her face in the water tn the ditch. The evidence. so far as we have been discover, also shows that she came to her death in the same manner as Mrs. 8 namely. by being choked to death, although in this last case a cord was not used to do the choking.” What Is Known of the Railey Murder. Mrs. Ralley had been separated for some The egg has become swelled; and is knocking at the door of the trust man- sion, demanding admittance to associa- tion with the billion dollar steel and other swell trusts. Time was when an egg was only a scramble or an omelette; now it bids fair to be food fit for the millionaire. Together with its parent, the hen, it has ~ Gem ss .| good joke that he laughed till tears came worked energaticaily to lay by a litte mon and he had to go to the drawer for a handkerchief. ‘It's the funniest thing I ever heard,’ Says Clancy; ey for a tamlly fund. Fortune Upset ‘It's a joke on me, upon my word,’’ Says Clancy: All His Plans. While working in an electric light plant ‘‘Now who would ‘a’ thought a man could make A part ‘o the crowd to attend his wake? about a year ago he met with an accident in which his right arm was dislocated and Why, it makes me laugh and roar an’ shake," Says Clancy. Have you won a woman since Lola Montez told how it may be done in last Sunday’s Post-Dispatch? If you are not yet a win- ner you must read the additional pointers given next Sunday by this remarkable charmer. It 1@ the thing upon which she ean instruct as perhaps no other woman who has lived in the last hundred years. fVatch for the rules for winning a woman. summer, and was stopping tempo at the residence of Miss May Owen. On Mon- day evening Mrs. Palley was 6x ting her son to arrive ir K-ntucky, and she called early at the home of Mrs. Wagner. The young man had not put in an appearance, and Mrs. Ralley returned to her house, say- ing she would be back later. In the mean- time young Ralley arrived, got his and then went to meet his mother. he was on the way there Mra. Started back to Mrs. Wagner's, arriving there after / o'clock. Finding that her son had alread down she said she would return. r. Mrs. Wagner were going uptown and asked her to accompany them on her way home. The three went uptown toge and separated at the corner of Main Fifth streets. Mra. Railey sald she Ww have to hurry as she intended to return te town with her son in order to get wearing apparel. That was the iast sisters saw of each other. Mra. Wagner says ip she — her buatens ny c quite a distance from street, she imagined the voice of her sister may visit Aguinaldo, and he is to ~o out whenever he pleases, A crown prince came to St. Louis in 1860. a privilege he A crown prince may come again. Who is he? See the next Sunday Post-Dispatch. ICE FOR FRIDAY MORNING S---« Mercury Will Drop to Point After SOUVENIRS OF SITE CORDWOOD ‘riday morning, links the mer- ‘ng point, and ll be ice on outside. iy morning ometer reg- degrees at That was igher than hour yes- was 45 de- % o'clock. ‘ted drop 3 will be high ba- ‘ing out west, snow is his vi- ‘egions *alling his skull fractured. Jeffersonville jail consisted of | ’ “It seemed to affect his mind,’ his wife ge Oh aout, told the Post-Dispatch, “and made him ab- DRAAilon hone ae States sLecmon | Sent minded. He could not do his work Re guard was supplemented by a | properly after he recovered and could not " -eD . ens Who marched behind the “Phat. worried him end made him de- un. * extreme vigilance amused | gpyondent. He knew he had me and the m " ; ‘ babies to support and he new that he the crow EE pyevinge d sarcastically a8} must have steady work to do it. One day Bet all as dangerous nyt these pe°ple | he told me that if he couldn't find steady Laulsville police a ot employment, he was going to kill him- he ted over the tur > Slightly disap-| self so we could get the insurance money. os” they had confide: Be an airs have taken “On Jan.18, he left home, saying he was @ full confession ¢ iy expected to obtain | going to sec a man, Mle has never returned, I ; oer esting e im rom Rathbun before en-| have learned since that he went to Broad- re to the Meaitea prosecution of the | way and Buchanan street to see a friend, resources of the Indiana | put stayed there only a little while. I think he went right down Buchanan street from Broadway and jumped in the river.” Since that time Mrs. Robbins has ex- hausted every means of finding him that she knows. he has followed up every clew where the name Robbins appeared, but without avail. She even wrote to the navy department when she saw that a man named Joe Robbins had enlisted, but he proved to be not her husband, Mrs. Robbins says her husband was 30 years old, six feet tall, well-built, with dark hair and eyes and a dark mustache. THE WEATHER INDICATIONS. FAIR. Missour! and Mlinole—Fair Thareday night: con- tinued cool; brisk northwest winds. Indiana—Foair Thureday night and Friday; con- tinned cool; brisk northwest winds. lowe—Fair Thursday night and Friday; slightly ambi owen and Nebrask de , : ta a—Fair night and Friday; slightly cooler in east portion ee might; variable winde “It is funny, so it is."’ assented the guests. Mrs. Clancy and the children, after the first shock of jov at seeing Mr. Clancy still alive, joined in the fun, and agreed with the head of the family in the opinion that it was the best joke that had happened on B street since Mulligan'’s goat butted over th baby buggy containing the negro tw'- from the levee. “Let us fill up our plpes an’ be me: said Mr. Clancy. ; “It's a go, it ts,"’ assented Mr. F1: “if you'll give us a pinch o’ that fi baccy o° yours, Joe Clancy.”’ , Mr. Clancy passed around § the and sent his son Patrick upstat!: foaming cataract of beer in a buck ly as big as a wash boller. And so they smoked, drank and \ od Dr. TY al ; — — — canna acres: allay Ais. oo en ae a roe oe : et GBPS , —_ owe. ~~ ae Aa aii —— oe i - rs. Wagner took . hut at the time nothing The next moras ere the aunt. Ly ge home Fo se worry. our & n bal Mb has ¢ ¥ , one plenty of talking. 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