6 C 1 ' 1 - STORIES OF THE SECRET SERVICE BY Capt. Patrick D. Tyrrell 112 STORY No. 3 The Bothamley Murder Mystery Being an Account of the Efforts Made by This Government to Bring to Justice the Murderer of Clement L. Bothamley, an Englishman Killed in Kansas. By CAPTAIN PATRICK D. TYBRELL k ICopyrlf ht, 190*5, by Marion G. Scheitiln.] The lacts gathered up to that time touching the career of Nellie Bailey were such as to strengthen my rapidly forming opinion that the woman was capable of deeds more desperate than flirting, although nothing in Itself more serious had been unearthed. It was not difficult to imagine, however, the lengths to which such a woman might goto free herself from the thralldom of marriage to a jealous hus band for whom, 1 was convinced, she bore no real affection. Her husband's possession of several thousand dollars in cash, coupled w.Ji her inordinate love of feminine finery, rendered stronger any other motive she might have had for wishing her husband out <of the way. The withdrawal of his funds from the bank and his sudden disappearance from De Smet presented themselves to me as additional grounds for harbor ing the theory that had been forcing Itself on me—that Shannon xiailey had b«en murdered by his wife. From tfe depths of his infatuation for his wayward wife I found it diffi cult to believe that he would volun tarily absent himself from her for two months. While she claimed to have been in communication with him I could find no trace of any exchange of letters between them, a fact that still further strengthened my belief that if the facts could be obtained they would tell a story of a peculiarly deliberate and atrocious crime. At this juncture a bit of informa tion—startling to me in view of the theory I held —was introduced into the Investigation by Mr. Ruth. A few days before my arrival in De Smet it seems there had been found in an unfre quented place on the prairie, 3% miles from De Smet, the bones of a man. All the parts had been heaped together without even pretense at burial. The skeleton had been dismembered and the flesh scraped from the bones. But there was nothing in the heap of bones which might establish the Identity of the victim. By measurement it was found that they had been the bones of a man about the height of Shannon Bailey. There all clews were lost. It seemed to me that the most prom ising channel for investigation from this point was a search of the premises formerly occupied by the Baileys. Ruth accompanied me in this search and, that no unjust suspicions should be giveu circulation concerning the former mistress of the house, we went about the task quietly. The house had, of course, been dismantled of the fur nishings used by the lawyer and his wife. On the first and second floors nothing whatever was found that might, by any stretch of imagination, lend color !o my suspicions. Armed with spades we then descend ed to the cellar. Carefully testing the condition of the dirt floor, we again met with failure. But one spot re mained unexplored, the small area un der the wooden stairway that formed the cellar entrance. As a last resort, I thrust a spade into the floor under the stairs. It sank deep into loose dirt. Quickly we removeu the top soil, and as we did so the awful, sickening odor of decomposed llesh became al most overpowering. At a depth of a little more than two feet the spade struck a mass of flesh. Although almost overcome we completed the excavation, to find a mass of flesh buried in quicklime. Not a bone was there to be found in this sorry grave! There was not the slightest doubt of the flesh being that of a human being, and the quan tity indicated clearly that it had been stripped from the bones of a full grown man. The action of the lime and decomposition had done their worn well enouph to obliterate opportunity for identification. In the meantime a woman In De Smet had been found who had had a letter from Mrs. Bailey in which the latter said her husband had ju»,t spent some time with her in Elgin, This indicated two things: first, that Mrs. Ralley hnd really Rone fo Elgin; and, ,-ocond, that she believed it expedient io keep alive in Do Smet the belief that her husband was living. Therefore 1 went to Elgin. No difficulty was experienced in find ing that Mrs. Bailey had stopped with one aunt for two days, leaving togo to another aunt, with whom she had spent six weeks. It required some cau tious inquiry, however, to develop the fact that Nellie Bailey had brought with her to Elgin her husband's jew elry, among it the watch formerly car ried by him and bearing his name. I reasoned that if Shannon ilailey had been alive it was altogether improb able that his wife would be in posses sion of the watch, especially as she had a reliable timepiece of her own. Her possession of other trinkets formerly used by her husband gave additional color to the theory that Bailey was dead. Then this fact was learned: The aunt with whom she was visiting had a dauguier about Mrs. Bailey's age, and one day the two had gone fish ing. When Mrs. Bailey left the house she took a package from the bosom of her dress and gave it to her aunt with strict Instructions to take good care of it. Curiosity on the part of the aunt prompted her to examined the packet, which contained several thou sand dollars in bills of large denomina tion. In Elgin Mrs. Bailey said her husband was in California, and I could find no trace of his having been in El gin, as his wife claimed in her letter to her friend in De Smet. In the course of Mrs. Bailey's visit to Elgin there were many minor events, all pointing in the same direc tion, but v ith which I shall not encum ber this narrative. Ever re.'stless, the woman went from Elgin to Waukesha, Wis., where she at once became ac quainted with Ilobert Reise, the 28- year-old son of the proprietor of the leading hotel of that place. The young man apparently fell prey to the wom an's wiles without even a pretense of resistance, and in a few days was se curely chained to the wheel of her chariot The sudden and ardent at BAILEY SHOT AT HIS WIFE'S NEW ADMIRER. tachment between the two became a matter of general knowledge anil com ment, and the parents of the young man evinced the bitterest opposition to it, Uut without avail. Young Reise announced that he was going to stage a play in which the! fair Nellie was to assume the star role. j After leaving Dakota Mrs. bailey had traveled under her right name, de-, claring in both Elgin and Waukesha that her husband was alive. Her in fatuation for young Reise, however, seemed to be as sincere an affair as it was in her nature to harbor, enough j so, at least, to prompt her to take the initiative and entice her lover into marriage. Reise, who was much the weaker character of the two, feebly protected against being made the in strument through which the crime of; bigamy, as he supposed, was to bo I committed by his inamorata, but his 1 protests were silenced by her vehe ment and oft-repeated assurances that "Shannon would never appear to both- \ er mem." On this point she was very positive. It is not iikely that Reise had any conception of the full significance of these words. Mrs. Bailey insisted on : the marriage being kept secret until "legal separation" from Baney could be brought about. Reise finally agreed and the marriage took place without further delay. At Waukesha, as at! Elgin, Mrs. Bailey exhibited the watch formerly worn by her husband, iteise, 1 among others, having seen it. The marriage at Waukesha had placed the woman in this position: If I Bailey were alive she was a bigamist, j and if he were dead she was undoubt- j edly his murderesi. Jler vigorous assurances to Reise that there was no j danger of Bailey ever bothering them j had for me, of course, a grewsome meaning. Strange as it may seem to those uninitiated in the ways of sucu as Nellie Bailey, I finally believed her j to be a woman who would commit the greater crime of murder rather j than place herself in her husband's 1 power by committing the lesser crime! of bigamy. At any rate, her positive statements to Reise that Bailey would j never bother them was in my opinion an important link in a long chain of j circumstantial evidence. Almost immediately after her mar riage—real or mock —to Reise, Mrs. Bailey said she hail to make a trip to: Kansas to sell a farm she owned there! and would then come back to Reise with $18,000; and, in connection wlui this pretense, 1 succeeded in estab lishing a fact of ihe utmost impor- j tance —that she had been receiving let-; tcrs from Clement L. Bothaniley dur-1 ing her stay in Wisconsin, it was not j my good fortune to secure any of these lttlcrs, but the fact that such a corre-1 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1906. spondence had been carried on was well established. lier statement to Reise that she was going to Kansas to sell a larm wan clearly u subter fuge to escape unsuspected from the man whom she professed to love so deeply togo to another admirer. She left Wau» sha still protesting the liveliest affection for Iteise aad went to Newton, Kan., sending to her Wisconsin lover from several jioints en route messages of undying love. Bothamley had evidently been advised as to the exact time of her arrival, for he met her at the train and later took her to his ranch under the name of Bertha Bothamley, his sister. From her journeyings of thousands of miles subsequent to her marriage with Shannon Bailey there seemed to be nothing more obtainable in the form of evidence against Nellie Bailey, or Nellie Reise, than I have related. Any additional evidence must be obtained in Kansas near the scene of the Bothamley crime. The sending by her from Skeleton ranch of the "Sarah A. Laws" doea to the Bothamley ranch should prove a valuable bit of in formation if the mystery of tne identi ty of "Sarah Laws" could be solved. Ine key to this puzzle finally was found in Aichita. Two days before Bothamley and the woman had started to Texas they appeared at the office of a lawyer in that city and solicited his services in the drawing of a deed to the 640 acres of land in question. To thia lawyer the woman was introduced by Bothamley as his wife, Bertha L. Both amley, and they desired to convey the ranch property to one "Sarah A. Laws." The instrument was drawn, the fee paid, and the couple departed, leaving no suspicion that eithpr was other than as represented. In the transac tion the grantee did not putin an ap pearance, but there was nothing in this circumstance to arouse suspicion. Knowledge of this visit to the law yer enabled me to see what the plan might have been. Further investiga tion revealed the 1a t. that within an hour from the time Bothamley and the woman had left the office where the deed was drawn in favor of "Sarah Laws" they had visited the office of another lawyer, and asked him to draw a deed to the same land. "Sarah A. Laws" being the name given as the grantor, and Bertha L. Bothamley as the name of the grantee. In the of fice of this lawyer, Bothamley intro duced the woman as Sarah A. Laws. This was the deed that was afterward sent by ti.a woman from Skeleton ranch to the clerk of Harvey county for record, ths cnaracter of "Sarah A. Laws" having bean purely fictitious. This was the most convincing cir cumstantial evidence developed, going to show that the flight to Texas had been planned weeks, and possibly months prior to tho start, and that Bothamley had fallen so completely under the spell of the woman that he had been induced by her to convey his ranch to her, tho roundabout meth od described being used for the pur pose of forestalling the comment a direct conveyance undoubtedly would have caused. With tho facts as here related in my possession I conferred with Col. Hallowell, and we took an inventory of the evidence in our possession. Of its circumstantial character there was, of course no doubt. The cut line of the facts I have related was strengthened by a search of the per sonal effects belonging to Bothamley at the time of his death, and of the contents of the car in which he died, in a box in the car, besides a large quantity of jewelry which had be longed to the woman with whom Bothamley had come to America, was found a bottle of morphine. I tried to establish tho identity of the pur chaser of the drug, but was unsuc cessful, for, after locating the drug gist who sold it, I found him unable to recollect the person who had bought it. The facilities for the exhumation and examination of bodies on the frontier were not such as to make an analysis of the Bothamley stom ach feasible, and the part played by the drug in the of the English man. if any, was loft in doubt. When we had finished taking stock of our evidence Col. Hallowell, known throughout Kansas as "Prince Hal," and I decided that we could go into court with a circumstantial case of great strength. Personally I was confident of bcinj; able to present such evidence as would convince any unprejudiced juror of the guilt of Nellie Bailey or Uelse. The physical circumstances sur rounding the death of Bothamley, h;id the accused been a man, would have none far <>f themselves toward convict ing. These circumstances, consid ered In connection with the histujy of Nellie Bin la* from the time of her marriage, the dlr,appearance of her husband, the finding of the human bones and flesh, her possession of hia jewelry and money, her marriage to Iteise and her confidence that Bailey would never bother them, the evi dent attempt on her part to secure title to Bothamley's ranch —all theso things and many minor circumsatncea seemed to me to constitute a case of much merit from the legal viewpoint. In this view Col. Hallowell agreed with me. The genial United States district attorney and I differed, how ever, on one material point—the chance of securing a conviction. "Remember, Tyrrell," he said, "that it's a woman on trial, and a pretty woman." The trial of this remarkable woman was one of the most memorable in the history of Kansas. She had ample means and had retained able counsel. Col. Hallowell, in his capacity as United States attorney, represented the prosecution, as the crime had been committed in the Indian terri tory, where there were no local courts. The government's array of circumstantial evidence was mar shaled before the jury with much skill and force by Col. Hallowell, and a display of correlated facts produced that would have caused an ordinary defendant to weaken. But the little blue-eyed woman remained as calm, as the incriminating circumstances were piled up against her, as she had been from the lirst. Counsel lor the defense made the best of the some what meager case they had, but when the evidence was all in there was a wide margin in favor of the pro«ecu tion. After the summing up by the lawyers Col. Hallowell said to me: "We are up against it. Every man on that jury knows she is guilty, and not one of them will vote for convic tion." His knowledge of western juries la cases where women were the defend ants was accurate. After due delJt eration the jury filed into the room and submitted to the court its ver dict: "Not guilty." Judge Foster, who heard the case, said after the trial that there was not the slightest doubt in his mind of the woman's guilt. But she was free. Robert R«i*>e had come to Kansas to atteurJ ti:e trial, and immediately after the verdic*. dis appeared with the woman I believed to be his wife, and who was his law ful wife, if the bones and flesh found in Dakota had been those of Shannon Bailey. 1 found afterward that while the jurors almost unanimously exprepted themselves as believing the guilty, they had applied to the cas« their sense of rough frontier justice, reasoning that Bothamley had been a man whose early advantages and le telligence should have led him into a different life, and tfc*t if he met death at the hands of cue woman, after he had led another to £*sert her home for him, besides tiwiorting his own wife and ckildcen, was ! meeting with no more punishment than he deserved. As a man I have , no quarrel with this reasoning. As : an officer of the law at that time I felt much disappointment at seeing i the hard work of months go f>jr naught, especially as that hard work 1 had developed what to my mind vv?JJ a sound case. So far as I have been able to toarn, , Shannon Bailey has never Si-isa Eoard of since the day he ds?s|>ij*rdrs«. I have recently written to his brother, who formerly lived in Ohio, but re ceived no answer. I will stake my reputation that we found all that waa mortal of him on the Dakota plain and in the cellar of his former ho ma fa De Smet. ——__! STORY No. 3 WILL BE "THK MISSOURI LAND LEAGUERS." WHY HE QUIT THE CHURCH When He Paid He Was "Brother," When He Didn't He Was "Dat Ole Niggah.'' Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, al ways cleanly shaven and unusually fas tidious in his choice of a barber, used to tell this story of the colored gentle- ! man who was accustomed to remove j the surplus hair from his face when he ; visited Boston. The knight of the razor was named Dickson. One morn ing the senator opened a conversation j by saying: "I believe you are a mem ber of the African church in i street?" "No, sah; not at all, sah," was the reply, made with much digni ty. "Ah, 1 thought you were when I was here last." "But not dis yeah, sah." "Ah, have you resigned?" "Wal, sah, it wiiij dis way: I jined dat chuch j en gootl faith de fust yeah I give $lO | tods de stated gospel, en all de chuch people calls me 'Brudder Dickson.' De j second year ma bianess fell off, en I give five dollahs; en all ho chuch peo- ! pie dey call me 'Mister Dickson.' Do ! dis razzer huht yo', sah?" "Not at I all; it is very easy." "Thank yc,' sah; well, de third yeah I feel so pobly dat I don' give nuthin' 't all fur preach in", en den all de ohuch people dey pass me i by en say 'dat ole niggah Dickson.' ! After dat I quit 'eni." Shipped a Skipper. "It's mighty easy to make a mistake j in a person,'' remarked John A. McCal 1 , a few days ag> to a friend. 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