Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 6, 1923, Page 12

i ET Be - a PAGE TWELVE INSURANCE SWINDLE 1S BARED IN CREMATION OF BODY, WISCONSIN Che Casper Dally Cridune THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1923 Casper Music Lovers to get away from that cottage and forget. 4 “I walked all the way to Allouez, a suburb of Superior, Wisconsin, and then took an Omaha train to Chi- cago. I was so scared that I did not even dare to look at a news- paper. I was afraid that I would go crazy if I read anything about the burning of the cottage and Mc- “TVA HEAD” WILL BE SHOWN AT THE RIALTO Bar . J Wy George Melford’s latest a! It Ss Great e Production, “Java Head,” featuring Turn Out in Force for Macmillen Concert Here Phee's body, even though I was many prominent screen players, will got . 7! (Continued from Page One.) gust 13, Allen McFee, a casual| hopeful that the charred body would be the attraction at the Rialto ‘The- . —that is what everyone says after a cup dered the companies to pay. The|friend, had been buried that very | be identified as my own. atre next Saturday. If you were a of Golden Gift Coffee. The fine quality is companies appealed tothe circuit|day. I went to the cemetery and| “When I left I had been paying| | Next Monday evening Francis Any persons wishing to buy | wife and should learn that your hus- in the coffee, not in a fancy package. court of appeals at Chicago which|found the sexton. who proved to be| premiums on a $20,000 life insurance| Macmillen, most noted of Ameri- season tickets in time to hear | band is in love with another woman heard arguments in the case last/a friend of mune. He showed me | policy, which had been made out to| can violinists, will appear at the Francis Macmillen Monday what would you do? Solve this prob- month, but has not yet rendered alwhere McFee had been buried and| my wife as beneficiary. I never; America theater. His recital night, should do so at once in |lem-by seeing this splendid picture. Your Grocer has it. decision I made a note of it, thinking that] have learned whether my wife ever| will be second of the series of order not to be disappointed. | Leatrice Joy, Jacqueline Logan. e case apparently parallels that}McFee, who I remembered was| realized a cent on the iffe insurance four being given this winter in For these tickets and reserva Raymond Hatton George Fawcett < California butcher, |about my build, would fit in with | policy. . | Casper under the auspices of tions, Mrs. Klein at the Music bert Roscoe portray the prin. e of death*in Fol-|my purposes. I intended to return, “I have never eritten her a line| the Woman's Departmental Shoppe should be called. oles. Joseph Hergesheimer is 4 of |dig up McFee’s body and burn it as| not have I ever written to any of| club. “Scone ee author of the story, which appeared an itinerant laborer, who he bad|/my own and disappear. my friends or relatives. I have never That there will be difficulty An effort to. effect ‘m compact .or Saturday Evening BREAKFAST slain, in a haystack near Lodi, and/ «] hurried around that afternoon | seen any one who knew me back in, {n ‘procuring seats is very | ganization of Southern industries to ar Young adapted it Lisappearing, to enable his wife toland rented a cottage. About 3 | Wisconsin. | probable, if the capacity audi- | demand a stable tariff policy wi'l be FFE collect on a large life insurance pol-| o'clock on the morning of August] ‘When I fled from Lake Nebaga-| ence that heard Anna Case in | made at the annual meeting of the}... c 20, I returned to the cemetery,| mon, I left my automobile standing! October, 1s any criterion of the | Southern Tariff Association, soon to| Watch for the date. A Packard ly with the arrest of] found an old shovel and dug up Mc.| in the roadway in front of the cot-] eagerness of Casper citizens to |be held at Chattanooga. coupe is going to be given away at Sailstad his stenographer to-| ies body. I tage I had rented. I wanted to| hear the best in music. Already ee Lloyd's. : Warden J. J. Smith of Folsom é jounced late yesterday that Kels is sane and that no move would be made toward obtaining a test of Kel’s spinal fluid, as had been contemplated, to test Kel's san SLFERIOR, Wis., Dec. 6—Dcug- law ce authorities today mace ready for the returning of its “mys tery man,” Edward J. Sailstad, ported arrested at Napa, Calif., night. Sheriff William Hagreen will de. today for Napa to take into the ma who three years ago was reported to have perished in a fire which destroyed his sum mer home at Lake N about thirty miles from here Under of District At torney Robert Kennedy, the cor oner and hig assistants will open the grave of Allan McPhee, Lake Neba- gamon resident, buried there three days before the fire on August 27, 20. It was McPhee's body, Sail is purported to have dec'ared his alleged confession, that was nted in the cottage and it was McPhee's bones, authorities today declared, which were in courts here identified as those of Sailstad. Mrs. Leona Sailstad-Richardson former wife of the man reported held at Napa, steadfastly refused to that Sailstad still “It's just another ‘frame up’ by the insurance companies to avoid paying the monev due us,” she de. clared after ridiculing the report of last amon. direction belleve lives. the arrest of her first husband CONFESSION 1 MADE BY DEFENDANT. NAPA, Cal., Dec. 6—4(By The As sociated Press.}—Financial difficul- t Edward J. Sailstad to exhume the body of his fr: len McFee, from a ne Lake Nebagamon i burn it in a cottage that his wife might * caused collect his insurance policies, ac cording to Sallstad’s confession t Dist Attorney Thomas ©. Ang lim and Sheriff J. R. Harris. He told the authorities he had no oth motive than to provide for his and children. The confession made Public today said “M true nome is Edwar J Ballstad. In 1918 T was livir Bau Ciairt, Wis., with my wife two children, Eau Claire is al two hundred miles from Lake Nebu Te ythe corpee in took the body from |the casket, carried it to a gravel pit nearby and buried it. I then return- ed to the empty grave, dumped the lempty casket into it, filled the grave and did my best to make it appear that the grave had not been tamp- ered. with. “The next night I dug McFee’s body from the gravel pit, wrapped it in canvas and carried it to a ‘roadway near the cemetery, placed my irove to the cottage I rented. I then carried the body to the| second floor of the cottage and 1 it on the bed. Then I put my on one of McFee's fingers, my t and other trink- sts to make it ap would be ident! I burned it.” bed mat ng watch in his poc! ets in other r that the as mine “I then se 3 and as the smoke and fire grew ger I ripped the canvas from se. The sight of the face poc body ‘ompletely unnerved me. When me to my senses outside the! I still had the canvass in my I looked back at the cot but the fog was so thick that uld not whether the house was burnir not. I fled from the scene in terror. To this day T don't] know whether the house was burned down or whether the body was burn-| ed_up. AIT nted to do was tol automobile and| attempt to deceive | return 14] friend that he,508 South Conwell Street, make {it appear that the body in the cottage was mine. IT wanted the authorities to think that I fell asleep while smoking or something of the sort and was burned to death. “After reaching Chicago, I thought the best thing to do would be to go out west. Gradually I made my way west, working as a salesman in various cities. “I never realized a cent from my everybody by burning McPhee's body. All I wanted was to get away. I was ashamed of my financial crash, which was one involving all my relatives and many of my friends, whom I per. suaded to put their money into my company. I wanted my wife to get the insurance money. That's all there is to my story. Iam ready to to Wisconsin to face the music,” the majority of the house is sold out in season tickets. 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