Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1930, Page 21

OF HEADLESS BODY Acts at Request of British. Ex-Wife at Rockville, Md., Gives Informtaion. At the request of the British embassy, the American Government, through the Department of Justice, has launched an investigation of a gruesome death mys- tery in the picturesque mining regions of the Southwest—the supposed behead- ing of one Arthur Rochford Manby, member of a prominent English family and veteran mining adventurer, in Taos, N. Mex., last July. The Federal inquiry is being directed toward solution of three questions which Dbave baffied investigators of the case since the sudden disappearance of the eccentric Englishman nearly a year ago. ‘These questions are: ‘Was the headless torso found in the palatial adobe residence of the 70-year- old promoter really that of the owner of | the mansion? If s0, did the reputedly wealthy min- ing operator die from natural causes, and was decapitaftion the result of mu- tilation by a dog found whining beside the body? Or was Manby murdered by an enemy ‘who fired several bullets into his body, slashed his body with a knife, severed the head from the spine and then de- liberately mutilated the features to cast suspicion on Manby's faithful hound? Former Wife Gives Information. While the Government's efforts to solve these problems have centered in rugged arroyo country and around Taos, near Santa Fe, special agents of the Bureau of Investigation mnh received certain information - Ierm-r wife of the missing man —Mrs. E. Cecil Allnutt, residing near Rockville, Md. .. tt, whose maiden name was years ago, but a r later. At the time she was living Taos with her father, who was an with which Manby was associated. The mature of the information obtained from Mrs. Allnutt was not divulged. The investigation was initiated at the urgent request of relatives of Manby in this country and in Eng- English relatives supplied ‘with numerous within recent y:ln, in ‘The embassy brought tion of the State Department in a the American authori- to’ into the Manby case. communicated office | Someone sald erican | convicted without ‘The | attacking his maste: Had Gone to House to Serve Summons in Suit. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. TAOS, N. Mex., March 8—On the of July 1, 1929, the afternoon - ear of ity United States Marshal jolted down the canyons and oy Fe. There one finds an unusual city tried | novelists. Consp! those Martinez &\‘lnmned Was ‘W. T. Hines, a blacksmith, living near Man| Barking Only Answer. Next day Martinez returned to the Msanby vmmty His only answer was the faint rking Mai ey i auestioning: o e continued qu 3 e countered s man who said he had seen “‘about. n_x-ntn riding toward linked Terecita’s name )n.nbz;. (z y:(nnin She was ughter - & Spanish-American mother, with ;m ‘woman, dnf. surned to town. Scarcely had he turned the corner heard: Terecita Ferguson was in the yard. o Carmen Buran, ‘who lived at her :uu Also John Stromberg, Who is in business at Taos. Before looking further, Martinez spotted his brother, they're swai that m::m Manby’s dead in there.” Find Decapitated Body. The Martinez brothers decided to forc to the house. ntering. the stable yard and climb- ing over a wall and across the roof of an outbuilding, they lowered themselves tio. - George Ferguson, o ‘nh' PAUo. nd Join Strombers his investigations, her cousin, | to Hing Rl‘lced Manby's hesd in & cormer where INVESTIGATION Above drawing shows layout of the death scene in the Manby hacienda, at Taos, N. Mex. (1) Vestibule with cot (2) Where Manby's cus- (4) Where Manby's | trousers and puttees were. (5) Uncov- | ered adobe bricks. (6) Screen door, | which was fastened. The dotted line shows route of those who discovered the body. At right: Photograph of flowered en- trance to Manby's home, with inset of Arthur Rochford Manby, central figure in the mystery. the ferocious dog deterred the Martinez brothers. Duran spoke up. | “I know the dog,” he said. “I'll g2 in and bring him out.” “Good boy, Lobo,” he said. “Shut up! Be a good boy!" The dog growled and backed away. “Come here—you!” exclaimed Duran, seizing Lobo by the seruff of the neck. He led the dog into the bright sun of the patio and tied him to a tree. Head Badly Mutilated. Now the whole party made its way in. On the exact center of the carpet of the room lay a bloody head. It was 16 feet from the shoulders of ‘he ,man who lay in the vestibule. It was a raw skull. The features had been mutilated beyond recognition. There were a few gray hairs, similar to Manby's. That was all. Dr. T. P. Martin, who lives next door, testified Manby was subject to heart ttacks. Some one pointed to gray hairs found upon the dog. It was suggested Manby had died from a heart attack and that the d:; ju verdict of "dut{lriy natural causes.” The body was interred within sight of Manby's stables, and within 30 feet of the grave of Kit Carson, great In- dian scout. Lobo howled during the burial. permitted to umeu::'u.:'lommmw ve ul - o ves! rs were inclined to deplore the hasty shooting of Lobo, much of a trial of T, ‘There were so many fute the su 5 police dog would have permitted an attack by rodents. Hines now discredits the entire theory of animalism. “There was only one stain on the e&rpe&onnd that was directly beneath the t where the skull rested,” he sald. “Had the head been worried by there would have been stains all over the room. I think the head was reduced to that hideous condition some human ageqicy and deliberately i as we found it.” these were later thoughts. Identity Never Fixed. ‘The identity of the dead man had never accurately fixed. called the body that o mw,mm THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, MARCH 9, 1930_PART ONE. Martin's deductions: amounted to 1. There was no support for the body substitution theory. 2. Manby had been murdered at some point other than where the body was found. 3. He had been decapitated and his head mutilated. 4. The body and head had been lnoedd in the positions where they were found. 5. Lobo had been locked in the house by the murderers in the hope he would further mutilate the body and thus | hi supply a false explanation. The dog had falled to do this. 6. Manby's body had been placed in the position where it was least possible for it to be discovered from the street or_garden. Meanwhile, J. B: Manby, jr., nephew of Arthur Roehfort Manby, wrote from Denver retaining lawyers to represent the family. They sent Martin back to Taos July 11 for further investigation. It is apparent that the Manby family believed their New Mexican relative a man of great wealth. But Hines says that so far as he has been able to as- certain, Manby was penniless, and had one had identified the mutilated fea- | ferred tures, Perhaps it was not Manby. The dlnrll:teduwnd‘e. J. A. Kiker, and Fred , district attorney, both accepted the coroner’s verdict as the conclusion of the case. However, protest went up in Santa and an unusual ition. There been an influx of poets, artists and | icuous among these was | Brian Boru Dunn, special writer for the | Santa Fe New Mexican. Mr. Dunn wrote much on the Manby case. His | theory was one of body substitution. | He believed, and he still believes, that Mxlnby is IJLV:. | ly number of people support this idea. They tell you of J. B. Brooks of Taos, buried a week before the | Manby case opened. Brooks and Manby | were about the same size. They think | it was Brooks' body that was found. Dunn didn't have far to look for a motive for Manby's desire to disappes There was the suit for breach of prom- ise. An investigation of Miss Waddell's suit disclosed it was not alone for heart balm she was suing. Manby, whose life had been filled with promotion schemes, once had interested her in | the possibility of a resort hotel near | Taos. Return of an alleged in ment had been a basis for t! awarded. The dam: $17,000. New York Doctor Figures. This is exactly the amount of cash Manby is believed, by some, to have | had on hand at the time of his dis- appearance. Of this $12,000 is said to have been obtained from Dr. C. V. Thorne, New York, who had taken a mortgage on e damages | ages amounted to | in all, with other financial en- tanglements included, Dunn found ample motive for Manby's leave and to cover his tracks. Added to these might be ascribed another and more compelling motive—fear, Here was a pefect Van Dyne mystery, but no Philo Vance ?mred to solve it. But if a Philo was delinquent a Sergt. Heath bobbed up and went straightway on the job. This counterpart of the doughty “sergeant was H. C. Martin, detective, of Santa Pe. Martin told an astounding story of July 9 he went to Taos and started prowling. Hines, the blacksmith, is executor of Manby's estate, but it is not es that one must go to obtain access to the Manby property. It is to Terecita Ferguson. She took possession almost immediately as a surviving stock- holder of the Taos Valley Land & Irrigation Co., one of Manby's schemes. Martin examined the Manby premises and decided Manby been murdered. He went to look at th¥ grave of Brooks. It had not been disturbed. Beneath a bureau he found two pleces of human vertebrae—two sections of the spinal column where it joins the skull. He found a sickle concealed behind books. The sickle was not bloody, but its posi- tion was suspicious, Martin found :{:fiy-hunalm towels with blood- Carried Headless to Cot. The body had been lying on its left side, a position which would have would have aimost suffocated the hot night of June 20, & pillow beneath his shoulders, measured the where Manby's shoulders rested to the wall. There was not space there for his neck and head, The body had been headless when it b Manby’s home surrounding Droperty, b b probably no man would go to sleep with | dition' Martin sqlund:;ed the $17,000 previously re- Aumt‘? a long letter was received by Gov. Dillon from brothers of A. R. Manby, Eardley B. Manby, Woodhall Spa, England, and Alford V. Manby, Cluny, Canada. The Manby family, they said, were astounded that the United States had done nothing to in- vestigate the “foul fallen a man who had played so im- portant a part in its development.” August 21 the body found in the Manby hacienda was exhumed and ex- amined by Dr. Martin, W. H. Robertsy Santa Fe undertaker, and several rep- resentatives of the State attorney gen- eral’s office. The report of this autopsy never has been delivered to the au- thorities at Santa Fe. Dr. Martin, in an extremely virile late middle age, is a character. The reason there has been no formal report of the post-morten, he says, is that no Em- ;%leon has been made for paying him. State won't get the report until | it's ready to settle, he asserted. “They talk about the body not being Manby's,” the doctor said. “We'll take up the marks of identification first. Manby had gray hair. The skull had remnants of gray hair. Manby had no teeth. Is false teeth were found near the body. The skull we found was toothless. “When we disinterred the body we found three rings on Manby's fingers, all of which, we recognized. In ad- dition, Manby’s diamond stickpin was attached to his undershirt. Further- more, the body was that of a fl""’" suffering from a disease Manby had.” That seemed to dispose of the body substitution theory. ;'x‘lhlt about murder evidence, doc- “We thought Manby might have been poisoned and then decapitated,” he said, “but the stomach showed no poison. The skull had not been frac- tured, so death was not due to a blow. Vertebrae Cleanly Severed. “However, the vertebrae had been severed with some sharp instrument. There were two deep cuts across the chest, such as made with a knife, The collar bone was broken and two of the upper ribs, Over the ribs there were seven small perforations. These appeared to be shot wounds. However, no shot was found in the body, Martin tells me shot may be drained from a & body that has been decapitated. This m{)o have hlt;;‘p;ll;ed“w Manby.” " you possible ml,.:t hntve been I\:’med by I;'lbllt;""b, “An autopsy couldn’t sho » physician p e “‘Doctor, after Manby's death did you hear any strange noises over there?” He looked as though he had expected that question. “Yes. A short time after Manby was buried Terecita Ferguson and her whole tribe moved in. Carmen Duran, George Ferguson and Juan Duran, Carmen’s brother. I could hear them at nights, They were .. Diggings—I for Manby’s mone! “You understand,” he added impres- sively, “that the fact some one is treas- ure hunting doesn't convict them of murder. My experience with the na- tives is that they are too su titious to return to a spot where 'y have killed some one.” nwr’ez ‘was Manby's mental con- “Manby was not insane, but he had noia. He developed a letter-writ- mania and was in the grip of a ": m-rlxry wmplgllt mva:ee“dl of udian language, mean n] ‘Afrasd of "whom? Of was 1) the eot. The eoat wmamm arms indicated that OF MANBY CASE CENTERS glly that had be- | was afraid. what? How long had be been afraid? It might be well to question further, | | | Hines was Manby's friend. Perhaps he would know. “Fear! Bless you, ‘e was always afraid!” Hines exclaimed in his Eng. lish accent. “That fellow lived in fear. “‘E kept guns all over the house and there were little boxes of shells by all the doors and windows. 'E was a .ure shot. Another thing—'e began having dogs around the place. “ 'E thought someone was tryin' to kill "im with poison gas over Dr. Mar- tin’s wall. ;| Imagine that. Then ‘e thought people were shootin’ at 'im with wered rifies.” 10 did he think was after him?” 'E always referred to 'em as they— just ‘they.’ ™ The doctor believes he knows who the mysterious “they” are. “Manby meant an organization known as the ‘United States Civil Secret Ser- Vice Self-Supporting Branch,’ ” he said. “Manby is supposed to have organized this, He sometimes talked of himself as a member, and other times expressed fear of it. He told me of a Severino Gn:lterrel, supposed to head this organi- zaf fon. “Hines doesn't believe there is any Manby used to say Guiter- rez had been there to talk to him on certain nights and he always seemed to be shaken up after lts.” Terecita Ferguson Figures. A singular factor in the Manby case is that no matter what line of investiga- tion the inquirer pursues he encounters the name of Terecita Ferguson. In some manner this solid, gruff English- man’s destiny was irrevocably tangled with that of the little half-caste woman with the quick eyes, { Manby was born July 14, 1859, at Morcambe, England. While still com- rnuvely young, he went to New York. n later years Manby kept a diary. In it there is the statement that he studied engineering and commercial and inter- national law in New York City. He later achieved some prominence as an engineering oromoter. ‘Throughout the queer work that was Manby’s diary, Terecita Ferguson looms as the most influential figure in his life. It is she, daughter of Jack Co- lumbus Ferguson, a gold prospector, that Manby refers to repeatedly as “Prin- ita,” “that most lovable of d “the princess of all my 8 She was little more than a girl when Manby met her and through- out the years he seems to have re- garded her with an affection that ap- hed idolatry. was seized by Martin, who, after his dismissal by the Manby heirs was retained by the State, and recently was sent to the Department of Justice st Washington. ‘The detective maintains the facts in the case were given the attorney gen- eral, Mike Otero, ir., but that Otero informed the governor’s office he found no evidence of erime in Taos and could make no arrests—even for investigation. Reports Six Decapitations, Decapitation is a singular method of murder. It is logical to seek what might suggest the chopping of heads in the history of Taos or New Mexico. At this point Detective Martin unfolds a story of seven murders in the last ten years, all except one murdered by de- capitation. “I had not worked on the Manby case long,” he explained, “before I found it leading into other cases. “In 1865 the Mystic Gold Mine was discovered in Colfax County, N. Mex., | by James Stone. Relatives of Stone are now living in Chicago. “About 1868 a prospector, Jack Co- lumbus Ferguson, came out from Leavenworth, Kans. He met Stone and they acquired a third partner, Geor| Wilkinson. These three prospected to- gether for some time. After a they ogened the Ajax Mine, 2 from the Mystic. “Between them lay the Aztec Mine of the Dutch Gold Co., a corporation having offices in New York, and at that tme the Aztec was one of the richest mines in the State. “Now, although the Mystic and the Ajax were not known as mines, the partners .always were flush. Thew sAljld they got their wealth from the “In reality they were stealing gold from the Aztec mine,and passing off the wealth that belong to the Dutch company as their own. “The three enjoyed uninterrupted prosperity about four years. Then Stone disappeared. After some time his body was found on one side of Mount Baldy and his head on the other, :“ little distance from the mouth of the ax. “The next important daté in story is 1895, when Manby met Fergu- ;n and Wilkinson and el rtner, “In October, 1917, disappeared. In 1921 reappeared Word got around that Wilkinson had $78,000 in cash with him. “I have a number of witnesses who * they saw Wilkinson arrive will_testify in Taos. the . He went to Ferguson home and was met by Jack Columbus. Ferguson, Manby and Terecita Fergu- son. “Next morning a Mexican servant in the Ferguson home awakened to find the of Gmy! ‘Wilkinson hud- dled in corner of her room. He had been stabbed in the breast. . ed. Ferguson, Tere- and Manby came into the room. “‘Mind your own business’ said Manby to the girl. ‘The man was no relation of yours.'” The detective says the girl repeated her story to District Attorney String- fellow last July and asserted that a Mexican boy, a friend of Terecita, de- parted from the Ferguson house before jun-up in his truck. She said he car- { ried the body to Mount Baldy, 57 miles. Martin went to Baldy and found a skeleton. The head was gome. Martin found a skull near the entrance to the Mystic mine. Martin asked that certain warrants be issued. He was told there were no funds available to prosecute the cases after the arrests, according to his state- ment. = “You asked if Manby might' have been killed by fear,” the detective con- tinued. “Let me tell you something— in 1922 Jack Columbus n was committed to an insane asylum—ho had been hounded by the®ghost of George Wilkinson. “Ferguson was not the type to be superstitious, but he was reduced to a shadow. He said the ghost lived with him. He felt it and heard it and saw it all over the Fei n_house, and in the neighboring flelds. He told peopl erately masquerading as a ghost and haunting Ferguson?” T have five witnesses who saw one man’s daughter doing just that,” MM'~I tin repli “Think what you are saying! You are implying that the woman imper- sonated the ghost of Wilkinson and reduced -her father to a state of in- sanity. Do you mean that?” “I am saying just that, and I can prove jt. You can quote me,” Martin replied. “Did Ferguson die in the asylum?” “No, he remained in the asylum at Las Vegas two years. Then he was released. He died in Taos in 1825.” Touch Manby Case. . Martin then was questioned about the other cases of decapitation he had referred to. Each, he says, in some way touched the Manby case. Some of the victims have not been identified, and the names of others Martin refused to disclose. . “I have supplied the Department of Justice with all my information,” he says. “I think I am definitely out of the Manby case, but I have hope the Government will bring it to a conclu- sion. “I presented all these facts to Attor- ney General Otero. He told me to stick to the Manby case and to ignore other ramifications. September 7 he told me the State had no money to continue investigations and that it would be nec- essary to abandon the case. No ar- rests ever were made. September 7 Otero issued a statement in which he said he had found no evidence of mur- der at Taos.” “Was Manby's the last killing?"” “No. About two months ago a woman reported having heard a strange con- versation in the neighborhood of the Hines shop at a time when the Fergu- sons lived there. She sald she heard talk of a burial several miles from here, I went to the spot and found a de- capitated body. * “Knows Who Killed Manby.” “Three months ago two traveling salesmen were approaching the store of Floyd Hammond, 30 miles from here on the Colorado road. As they ap- proached two men left the store hur- riedly and drove away. When the salesmen entered they found Hammond lying across his desk, his neck partly severed and a bloody ax beside him. His money belt and wallet weére gone.” “Do you believe these crimes ar being committed by the same persons?” Heat With Economy Do You Live In the Suburbs? 1f you live in the suburbs or outlying sections to Washington, you can enjoy hot-water heat in your home. We shall be pleased to furnish you an estimate on the cost. American Radiator Co. HOT-WATER Heating Plant radiation . . . complete- ly installed . . . as low as... NO CASH DOWN * 3 Years to Pay Immediate installation . . . take 3 years to pay the bill. 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