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Capt. Patrick D. Tyrrell
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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
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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.
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WHY HE QUIT THE CHURCH
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When He Didn't He Was
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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."
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"It's mighty easy to make a mistake j
in a person,'' remarked John A. McCal 1 ,
a few days ag> to a friend. "It's like j
the case of a sea captain 1 once knew, j
He got married late In life and pro-j
grossed little further than the honey- !
moon when his wife packed up her
duds and ran oil with a handsomer j
man.
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February 6th and 20th and
March 6th and 20th
i On above dates most lines will sell both one-way
I anil round trip tickets at exceptionally low rates.
If your.nearest railroad agent cannot yive you tbe
rates, write me for particulars.
If you're in any way interested in the
Southwest, I'd like to send you my
paper "TheCoinint; Country." Address
H. F. BOWSHER,
408 Traction Bldg., CINCINNATI, O.
Tickets ou sale everywhere, via
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New Prize Puzzle' Parade"
Kun lor yoiiiiu and old. Way solve It once then fall
fori times. Hovs and Kirlscan make money asauents.
PriCO lUC. At' Ml. 91 H>, CO., I 411 lairmuunt A»r., PUILA,
IS CURtS WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. PJi
|J Best Cough Syrup. TaMes Good. Use
Prl in time. Sold by druggists. Mr!
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