Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1929, Page 24

WONANGOESFRE OF URDER GHARGE State Unable to Prove She Slew Her Husband’s Al- . {eged Mistress. By the Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, October 8.—Again Mrs. Catherine Cassler has emerged from the shadow of the penitentiary. For the second time in a year the middle-aged woman, serene and smiling in her certainty of 'exoneration, has stepped from behind jail walls, freed of a murder charge. Once before she had been saved from the gallows in Cook County by the Supreme Court after a conviction for murder, and went free because one witness refused to testify at a second trial and another witness was dead. Is Given Her Freedom. Yesterday Mrs. Cassler, the accused slayer of her husband’s mistress, was given her freedom at Valparaiso, Ind., because the Porter County prosecutors could not produce evidence that the ‘woman was slain in Indiana, where her body was found. ‘There was a tiny flaw in the “perfect crime” that Mrs. Cassler first stood ac- cused of. The body of Willlam Lind- strom, a cabinet maker, was found one night in an alley, the victim apparently of a fall. But the night was rainy, and the alert patrolman observed that Lindstrom’s shoes were dry. Loren Patrick and Mrs. Lillian Fraser were arrested at the Fraser home, where Lindstrom had been a roomer. Mrs. Fraser readily confessed a plot to kill him and collect $1,000 insurance—a plot sug- gested, she asserted, by Mrs, Cassler. And it was Mrs. Cassler, she testified, who obtained Patrick’s release from jail at Crown Point, Ind, where he was held for bootlegging. Says Women Prompted Him. “I just killed him because the women asked me to,” Patrick admited. *“I wouldn't do it again. I'm through kill- ing people.” | Patrick and Mrs. Fraser pleaded | guilty, but Mrs, Cassler stood trial and was sentenced to hang, one of few | ‘women in the Cook County to receive a death sentence. Her conspirators were sentenced to the penitentiary and Mrs. Fraser died there. Mrs. Cassler's conviction was appealed, a Supreme Court stay prevented her execution 24 hours before it was scheduled, and the case was remanded for new trial. Then Patrick repudiated his charge that Mrs. | Cassler formed the plot, and the State, without a witness, dropped the charges last April. MOTHER AND SON SLAIN. Long-Handled Ax Is Used in New York's Latest Murder. NEW YORK, October 8 (#)—A mother and son were chopped to death with a long-handled ax as they slept in their lower West Side tenement yes- terday. Police sent out an alarm for a longshoreman named Conrad Sidor- chuck, but known in the neighborhood as John Bock. The victims, Mrs. Domka Casino and her 16-year-old son John, were killed before they arose this morning. Neighbors told police that the long- shoreman had often called on Mrs. Casino, who had been separated from her husband for years, and that he had bt;.egtseen to enter her apartment last night. e Mexican Bandits Killed. 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