CHICAGO CRIMES.

Evening Star, Issue 12763, 16 March 1906, Page 7

CHICAGO CRIMES.

All through one Friday night the police of Chicago were searching the higwavs and bye-ways of that city for a wealthy lady, who had disappeared after leaving her home to attend the funeral of a friend. Mrs Bessie Hollister was thirty years of age, remarkable for her personal' beauty, and the possessor of a splendid voice. Next mom. ing a young man named Ivens informed his father, a carpenter, that he had found the body of a young woman partially concealed in the garden of the house. The corpse was partly buried in shavings and sawdust. The police were informed, and Ivens was arrested. He then confessed that he had attempted to assault Mrs Hollister, who offered such a desperate resistance that he had at last strangled her with fine copper wire, and took her jewellery in order to make it appear that, robbery was the motive of the crime. At an. inquest, the brother-in-law of the murdered woman produced a revolver in court and attempted to shoot the prisoner. He was disarmed and placed in a cell. Ihe Chief of Police has had issued the following extraordinary proclamation, in view of four murders of women which took place in the city recently:—“ Women ot Chicago, stay indoors unless you are accom - panied by an escort. Ho not display your jewellery or your money too conspicuously, but keep a sharp lookout wherever you are.” A man whose wife was murdered isattempting to raise a fund of £5,000 to be be offered as a reward for the capture oi the criminals.