WHEELER COUNTY REPUBLICAN
Bartlett,
Nebraska Thursday, October 27, 1887
A Mysterious Death
A young lady by the name of WILLIAMS died under very mysterious
circumstances at the home of one SEARLS, near Martinsburg, this
county, yesterday. She was sick of typhoid fever and waited upon
by Dr. REATGER of that place. Upon coming to see her yesterday
morning she was dead and prepared for burial. The doctor noticed
blood issuing from the nostrils and became suspicious that all
was not right. Her arms were folded over her breast. He unloosed
them and upon further investigation found several bandages around
her body up toward the arm pits. These bandages were bloody and
the doctor found an incision or wound one inch long and quite
deep under one of her arms. He concluded she was murdered and
had the entire family with whom she was stopping, and to whom
she was related, arrested. The girl was heir to several thousand
dollars and upon her death the family with whom she was stopping
and who were arrested for her murder, would be entitled to it.
The SEARLS say she had an abscess under the armpit, which she
never revealed, and that one of those suspected of using foul
means lanced the abscess. People cannot see why there should be
such a profusion of blood from such cause as to almost entirely
saturate her clothing and bedclothes and leave a big pool on the
floor. Great excitement prevails. The coroners jury exonerated
the parties accused of all blame and endorse their asscertations
in regard to the abscess and the lancing.
Mrs. C. HEISEL, a demented woman of Plattsmouth, left her home
and was absent about two days. She was found near Rock Bluffs
by a searching party. Many were of the opinion that she drowned
in the river.
Deputy United States Marshal SHOWALTER arrested E.C. JOHNSON
at Broken Bow on the charge of fraudulently representing himself
to be a United States officer. The prisoner was taken to Omaha
and was examined before Judge ANDERSON. The prisoner is one of
the three men who held up Charles PARKER, the man who robbed Paymaster
BUSH a few months ago in Wyoming.
John C. SEELEY, for twenty years a prominent citizen of Dodge
County, died at Scribner on Sunday. He represented his district
in the legislature one term and has held other important public
offices.