CHICAGO CRIMES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8451, 16 May 1906, Page 5

CHICAGO CRIMES.

» All through one Friday night the police of Chicago Avere searching the higliAvays and bye-Avays of that city for a Avealthy lady, Avho had disappeared after leaving her home to attend the funeral of a friend. Mrs Bessie Hollister Avas thirty years of age, remarkable for her personal beauty, and the possessor of a splendid voice. Next morning a young man named Ivens informed his father, a carpenter, that he had found the body of a young Avoman partially concealed in the garden of the house. The corpse Avas partly buried in shavings and saAvdust. The police Avere informed, and Ivens arrested. He then confessed that he had attempted to assault Mrs Hollister, Avho offered such a desperate resistance that he had at last strangled her with fine copper Avire, and took her jewellery in order to make it appear that robbery was the motive of the crime. • At the inquest, the brother-in-Law of the murdered Avoman produced a revolver in court and 'attempted to shoot the prisoner. He was disarmed and placed in a cell. The Chief of Police has had issued the folioAving extraordinary proclamation, in vieAV of four murders of Avomen which took place in the city recently:—" Women of Chicago, stay indoors unless you are accompanied by an escort. Do not display your joAvellery or your money too conspicuously, but keep a sharp look-out wherever you are." A man whose wife was murdered is attempted to raise a fund of £5,000 to be offered as a reward for capture of the criminals.