The Murder of Anna Wiese
Green Mountain, Iowa

EVENING TIMES REPUBLICAN

THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1893

HEADLINES

Isenhart in Custody - Seems All Right but Will Be Held for Investigation

A Reported Clue, with Slight Grounds, However All that Develops

Isenhart in Custody

Today's News in the Wiese Case

City Marshall D. E. Waters arrived in the city about midnight last night with Albert Isenhart, the young man whom some people still believe was the murderer of Anna Wiese. The marshall left here for Rolfe with a warrant yesterday morning, reached his destination at about 4 p.m., and started home on the first train via the C&N.W.  The Rolfe authorities did not want to give up their man, but the warrant "fetched 'em" and they were assured that there was no excitement here and no danger of violence.

On the way home Isenhart talked a good deal with the marshal, who says he seemed like an excellent young man. He is an orphan and has had to work for a living ever since he was quite young. He admitted writing a letter to Miss Wiese on Sunday and told a pretty consistent story as to his whereabouts during the few days immediately preceding and following the murder.

He is not a bad looking young man and seems intelligent, though his education has been somewhat limited. Marshal Waters also talked with a number of people at Rolfe, who verified what was stated in the affidavits. The officers will hold Isenhart a few days, however, for further examination.

The four sheriffs who visited the scene of the murder yesterday declare that they found nothing new. They brought back the bloody club and a few other articles for safe keeping.

What looked a good deal like a plausible clue was discovered this morning in the rumored story of a C. G. W. brakeman named Petrican. He is reported to have said that two strangers boarded train 93 at Green Mountain shortly after 11 o'clock Saturday night. One was rather tall and the other short and the short man had some blood on his clothes.

He was asked how they got that way and said he had cut his hand getting through a barb wire fence. The brakeman went on and later spoke to the conductor about the men. When Reinbeck had been reached they looked for the strangers again, but could not find them. So the story goes. This brakeman was not in town today, but Sheriff Pence telegraphed to Des Moines officers to hunt him up and ascertain the truth of the report, as he is said to be in Des Moines.