The Evening Press - Grand Rapids MI • October 24, 1901

Mrs Huss Murdered

Henry Wiseman Makes A Statement if the Royal Oak Murder

Jackson, Oct 24, - Henry Wiseman, in prison here, has admitted that he saw Mrs. Huss murdered, but attempts to throw the blame on Robert Hale, the woman's paramour. Wiseman says that he and Mrs. Huss went into the woods at Royal Oak and that Hale met them there and strangled the woman, meanwhile covering Wiseman with a revolver to prevent his interference. He says Hale gave him the woman's ring and later left the tan shoes in his woodshed and threatened him with death if he ever revealed the murder. His story is not believed, however, and Prosecutor Rockwell will ask that he be pardoned from prison, to be rearrested at once for the murder. Royal Oak, Oct 24 - The inquest in the Royal Oak murder case was held before Justice Wheeler this morning. The proceedings were perfunctory. Prosecuting Attorney Rockwell had decided that it would do no good to put the county to the expense of having all the witnesses in the case present at the inquest, therefore the only testimony introduced was that the body of the woman was found in the woods, two miles north of Royal Oak. Witnesses to show that it was the body of Mrs. Huss were not produced, and there was no testimony to show how the omn came to her death. Neither Dr. Kennedy nor Mr. McLean, who say that Mrs. Huss died from stab wounds, were present, and the jury could not even say what the woman died from. It rendered a verdict that the body of a woman as found in the oods and that its identity as unknown.


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