8. Wichita Daily Eagle, November 25, 1908, p. 1; Cincinnati Enquirer, November 25, 1908, p. 2; Shepherd, pp. 191–92; Chicago Examiner, November 25, 1908, p. 1.
9. Wilkes-Barre Record, November 25, 1908, p. 1.
10. Detroit Free Press, November 25, 1908, p. 2.
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1. La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 25, 1908, p. 1.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.; Chicago Daily Examiner, November 25, 1908, p. 2; Chicago Tribune, November 25, 1908, p. 1; de la Torre, pp. 149–51.
4. Marshall County Independent, January 25, 1901, p. 1; Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, January 27, 1902, p. 1; Waterloo Press, January 31, 1901, p. 2; Leader Courier, July 18, 1901, p. 1. Brill, charged with attempted murder, was allowed to plead guilty to assault and battery and got off with a $500 fine, plus costs.
5. de la Torre, pp. 152–53; La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 25, 1908, p. 1.
6. La Porte Argus-Bulletin. November 26, 1908, p. 1.
7. de la Torre, pp. 153–54; Shepherd, pp. 196–97.
8. La Porte Weekly Herald, December 3, 1908, p. 4; de la Torre, pp. 155–56; Shepherd, pp. 196–98.
9. Chicago Daily Tribune, November 26, 1908, p. 2; Chicago Inter Ocean, November 26, 1908, p. 4; Shepherd, pp. 199–200; de la Torre, pp. 156–57.
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
1. Chicago Inter Ocean, November 27, 1908, p. 1.
2. La Porte Weekly Herald, December 3, 1903, p. 1.
3. Chicago Inter Ocean, November 27, 1908, p. 2.
4. La Porte Weekly Herald, December 3, 1903, p. 1.
5. La Porte Argus-Bulletin, December 3, 1908, p. 1.
6. Raleigh Times, November 27, 1908, p. 1.
7. La Porte Weekly Herald, December 3, 1903, p. 8.
8. Chicago Daily Journal, November 27, 1908, p. 2.
9. The comments on the outcome were collected and published by the La Porte Weekly Herald, December 3, 1908, p. 8.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. La Porte Argus-Bulletin, November 28, 1908, p. 1.
13. Ibid.; Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, November 28, 1908, p. 1; Culver Citizen, December 10, 1908, p. 2.
CHAPTER FORTY
1. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sunday Magazine, May 2, 1909, pp. 55–56.
2. Belvedere Daily Republican, October 7, 1909, p. 1; Indianapolis News, December 31, 1909, p. 2.
3. Dakota County Herald, October 8, 1908, p. 1.
4. Indianapolis News, December 31, 1909, p. 2.
5. See, for example, Warren Times Mirror, December 31, 1909, p. 1.
6. Shepherd, p. 211.
7. See Edwin A. Schell, Historical Sketch and Alumni Record of Iowa Wesleyan College (Mount Pleasant, IA: Mount Pleasant News-Journal, 1917), p. 38.
8. Shepherd, p. 32.
9. Indianapolis News, May 13, 1908, p. 8.
10. 471 Ibid.; Evansville Press, May 13, 1908, p. 1; Shepherd, p. 104.
11. Shepherd, pp. 212–13.
12. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 13, 1910, pp. 1 and 2.
13. Ibid.
14. Cincinnati Enquirer, January 14, 1910, p. 4.
15. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 13, 1910, p. 2; Houston Post, January 14, 1910, p. 4.
16. Cincinnati Enquirer, January 14, 1910, p. 4.
17. Chicago Daily Tribune, January 15, 1910, pp. 1 and 2.
18. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 16, 1910, p. 2.
19. Ibid., June 22, 1956, p. 17.
20. Ibid., January 16, 1910, p. 2.
21. Shepherd, p. 219; Indianapolis Star, January 16, 1910, p. 5.
22. Shepherd, p. 220.
23. Ibid., p. 219.
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
1. Brazil (Indiana) Daily Times, January 22, 1910, p. 6.
2. Indianapolis Star, March 7, 1910, p. 5.
3. Ibid.
4. Daily Republican, January 31, 1910, p. 3; Indianapolis News, February 16, 1910, p. 3.
5. Fort Wayne News, February 16, 1910, p. 9.
6. Indianapolis Star, June 23, 1910, p. 3; Culver Citizen, September 22, 1910, p. 6; Pullman Herald, July 8, 1910, p. 5; Indianapolis Star, August 16, 1910, p. 5.
7. Indianapolis News, February 16, 1910, p. 3.
8. An abbreviated version of Myers’s statement first appeared in 1912. See, for example, Indianapolis Star, December 18, 1912, p. 6. It was not until eighteen years later that the complete statement was published. See Indianapolis News, July 17, 1930, p. 17.
9. Fort Wayne News, December 21, 1912, p. 11.
10. Bismarck Tribune, December 24, 1912, p. 5; Calumet News, January 27, 1913, p. 3.
11. La Porte Argus-Bulletin, March 18, 1916, p. 1.
12. Chicago Daily Tribune, May 6, 1916, p. 8.
13. Atlanta Constitution, May 7, 1916, p. 14.
14. La Porte Argus-Bulletin, March 18, 1916, p. 1; Indianapolis Star, March 19, 1916, p. 4.
15. La Porte Argus-Bulletin, May 5, 1916, p. 1.
16. Chicago Daily Tribune, May 6, 1916, p. 1.
17. La Porte Argus-Bulletin, May 5, 1916, p. 1; Chicago Daily Tribune, May 6, 1916, p. 8.
18. La Porte Argus-Bulletin, May 5, 1916, p. 1.
19. Chicago Daily Tribune, May 6, 1916, p. 8.
20. La Porte Argus-Bulletin, May 8, 1916, p. 1.
21. Chicago Daily Tribune, May 6, 1916, p. 8.
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
1. Indianapolis Star, January 8, 1915, p. 11; Seymour Tribune, October 31, 1923, p. 6.
2. Capital Times, January 2, 1924, p. 2; Cincinnati Enquirer, July 3, 1924, p. 4.
3. Garrett Clipper, October 2, 1930, p. 5; Indianapolis Star, February 14, 1936, p. 11.
4. See Indiana Evening Gazette, September 26, 1928, p. 1. The perpetrator of the so-called Wineville Chicken Coop Murders turned out to be a twenty-two-year-old pedophile and Canadian immigrant named Gordon Stewart Northcott. For a good account of the case (which served as the basis of the 2008 Clint Eastwood–directed movie Changeling), see Anthony Flacco, The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders (New York: Diversion Books, 2009).
5. Indianapolis News, July 17, 1930, p. 17; La Porte Herald Argus, April 28, 1933, p. 1.
6. Los Angeles Times, February 21, 1931, p. 14. The elder Lindstrom’s full name was Carl August Lindstrom. Newspaper accounts, however, consistently refer to him as August Lindstrom.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Los Angeles Times, February 19, 1931, p. 23.
10. Los Angeles Times, February 21, 1931, p. 14.
11. Oakland Tribune, February 21, 1931, p. 2.
12. Los Angeles Times, February 22, 1931, p. 21; San Bernardino County Sun, February 22, 1931, p. 5.
13. Oakland Tribune, February 24, 1931, p. 25. Though he was known as “Charles,” Esther Carlson’s husband, coincidentally or not, had the same first and middle name as her victim: Carl August.
14. Los Angeles Times, February 25, 1931, p. 16.
15. Los Angeles Times, February 24, 1931, p. 21; Prescott Evening Courier, February 25, 1931, p. 2.
16. Los Angeles Times, February 26, 1931, p. 26.
17. Los Angeles Times, March 6, 1931, p. 21.
18. Modesto News-Herald, March 7, 1931, p. 1; Los Angeles Times, March 7, 1931, p. 20, and March 27, 1931, p. 20.
19. Oakland Tribune, May 3, 1931, p. 3; San Matteo Times, May 2, 1931, p. 2.
20. San Matteo Times, May 2, 1931, p. 2; Albuquer
que Journal, May 3, 1931, p. 1; Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1931, p. 16.
21. Los Angeles Times, May 9, 1931, p. 14.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. After deliberating for just under five hours, the jury found Erickson not guilty on May 13, 1931. See Modesto News-Herald, May 14, 1931, p. 1.
26. San Francisco Chronicle, May 8, 1931, p. 14.
27. Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1931, p. 15. Yorkey’s letter to Worden is in the archives of the La Porte Historical Society Museum.
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
1. Indianapolis Star, January 4, 1943, p. 20.
2. Jensen’s findings were delivered in a lecture at the La Porte County Historical Society Museum in October 2014. His talk is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKa78XVyqJs&feature=youtube.
3. See Maria Konnikova, “Why We Need Answers,” New Yorker, April 30, 2013, http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/why-we-need-answers.
4. Indianapolis Star, May 14, 2008, p. B6.
5. Chicago Inter Ocean, May 14, 1908, p. 1.
6. See La Porte Weekly Herald, May 28, 1908, p. 1.
7. Jones, p. 165.
8. La Porte Weekly Herald, December 3, 1908, p. 7.
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INDEX
A
Abernathy, R. A., 251
Ahlzen, Gustav, 251-252
Alderfer, Isaiah, 202
Altic, Mattie, 17-18
Andersen, Magnus, 5
Anderson, George, 112
Anderson, John, 5, 201
Andreas, A. T., 4
Antiss, William
beliefs on Belle’s death, 128
Budsbergs and, 99-100
at the fire, 67-68
in the inquest, 77
Lamphere arrested by, 74-75
Lamphere led into trial by, 156
Lamphere questioned by, 74-75
looters chased by, 97-98
as sheriff, 229
ant poison recipe, 253
Argus-Bulletin, 68-69
Armstrong, Clara J., xiii
arsenic, 88, 119, 141, 205-206, 251, 253-254
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