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com MANISTEE NEWS ADVOCATE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 7A

King’s Addition, alias “Jerusalem”

 EDITOR’S NOTE: Not much is known light. to more people settling
This is part one of a two about William King At some point in time, within the city.
part series on the area before he arrived in King became the owner As such, the northside
of Manistee referred to Manistee. of a tract of land located of the city began to grow
as King’s Addition or He was born in Bristol, northeast of Fremont and expand which in
“Jerusalem.” Glouchestershire, Street. turn signified that more
Pioneer Manistee England on March 14, One of the caveats housing was needed.
resident, William King, 1825, and grew up to of this land, situated However, depending on
must have had a pretty become a woodworker. near the Lake Michigan where you were situated,
good reason for having After his first wife passed shoreline, was that it was the threat of sand was Paul Brefska, Theodore owns at that place.”
his property, an area away in the nearly surrounded by apparent. Stepeniewski, John Sometime afterward,
nearly surrounded by early 1860s, sand dunes making it a By the mid-1880s a Jakupczak, William his family, which alto-
sand dunes, platted and he immi- challenge to access. number of people had Oleniczyk, Stanley gether included five
auctioned off. grated to Nevertheless, with the purchased some of the Oleniczk, Thomas Niewi- children, would move
Perhaps he did it for the United property platted, seven lots of land offered in adowski, John Oleniczk, to Maryland where they
investments purposes States and streets were shaped King’s Addition and Jacob Gutowski, Walinti would continue to live out
or maybe he saw an eventually in King’s Addition constructed houses on Manel, Minnie Redman, their lives. William King
opportunity to provide settled in with the names titled: the property. Overall Alex Wieczorek, John passed away on March 9,
land for people hoping By Mark Manistee. King Street, Humboldt nearly 20 homes were Wieczorek, Frank 1908 in Baltimore.
to settle in an expanding Fedder In 1866 he Street, Bismarck Street built in what was Dominski, John Bauter, As the years pro-
city. Or conceivably he remarried, taking Fannie (named after the German later described in the Charles Clasen, John gressed and the natural
was simply tired of his Burrell as his second statesman, Otto Eduard Manistee News Advocate Edens, John Teskey. elements swept through
profession and had the wife. Leopold von), Garfield as a development having The original owner of the neighborhood, many
opportunity to venture By 1870, he was listed Street, William Street, an “...outlook (that) was the property, William of the residents of Man-
elsewhere. in the Census as a cabinet John Street and Stanis- promising for an enter- King, would never really istee’s Jerusalem began
But as it goes in life, maker living with his laus Street. prising community.” bear witness to the small to move out due to the
perhaps it was a little bit family near the Manistee Taking a wide look at By the turn of the 20th growth of his little tract overabundance of sand.
of everything. River Channel on the Manistee at that time, century, mainly Polish of land near the Lake However, as the
While the small city’s northside. one has to keep in mind and German immigrants Michigan lakeshore. neighborhood became
neighborhood platted Roughly six years that it was an active hub had made their home in In late August of 1883, a little more desolate,
by King would last for later, it was reported in of lumber production and King’s Addition. the same year that the a few residents of
several decades, the the Manistee Times and industry. The 1900 Census property was platted, the Little Jerusalem would
natural element of sand Standard that William However, once salt documents just 18 Manistee Weekly Times continue to live amongst
would eventually take was appointed as the was discovered in 1881 dwellings in the addition reported that he would be the dunes for many years
its toll on the land which local lighthouse keeper, and production began on with the names (heads of leaving for Trappe, Talbot to come.
became known locally the third time this manufacturing it, more households) recorded as County, Maryland to “...
as “Jerusalem” or “Little “honor” was bestowed on jobs became available such: engage in the manage- Next week: Change
Jerusalem.” someone for Manistee’s in the area which led Joseph Hayward, ment of a large farm he comes to King’s Addition.

100 YEARS AGO

The following news items are ington. opposed Amel’s marriage to “(Special to The News daughter didn’t own a stitch of
reprinted from the Manistee “Coal miners call their Blanche Spurlock ... was the Advocate) LUDINGTON, the clothes she had on her back.
Daily News for the week of Sep. strike a ‘vacation.’ But to many statement of Louis Mottl, Sept. 27 — The first sign of “City Attorney Campbell
24-30, 1920 and are compiled it seems as though they are brother of the deceased, on the any emotion displayed in court offered to find the girl a good
by Teena Kracht from the coming to regard it as their stand today. since her arrest was manifested home where she could work
newspaper archives of the vocation. “William E. Paxton, this morning by Mrs. Blanche as maid if she promised to
Manistee County Historical “U. Tellum says that under Blanche’s father, was recalled. Mottl when she broke down straighten up. He recom-
Museum. Read more of the 100 the working of suffrage the He told of making arrange- during a graphic recital of an mended that the mother be
Years Ago series at manistee- rolling pin may yet become as ments for Blanche and holding incident with the dead body of sent to jail for 20 days. In the
news.com. effective as the steam roller. an auction sale of personal her husband. meantime arrangements will
“(Special to The News “(Special to The News property on Mottl farm shortly “Mrs. Victor Chancellor of be made to care for two small
Advocate) LUDINGTON, Advocate) “I jumped from the after Amel’s funeral. Fountain ... said Blanche threw children whom, the authori-
Sept. 24 — Dr. A. S. Martin, frying pan into the fire when I “The News Advocate regrets her arms around the neck of ties say, Mrs. Hall has sadly
pathologist of the University married Amel,’ is the statement to announce that after today it the corpse lying on the bed and neglected.
of Michigan, star witness for credited to Mrs. Blanche Mottl, is compelled to discontinue the started to cry. The witness also “Others in the case, Fern
the state of the cause of death the widow, by her sister-in-law, four-page comic section which told that Blanche burned all Hall, the daughter, Gus Totch,
of Amel Mottl, was called Mrs. Anthony Mottl, on the has been a feature for some the papers containing medicine who admitted he was the girl’s
as a witness in the case this stand Friday afternoon. months past. from the sick room. She put lover, and Frank Poteracki,
morning. “Mrs. Mottl told of a conver- “This is made necessary by them in the stove that same each paid $5 and costs.
“Amel Mottl could have died sation with Blanche when both the present extremely high morning. “Advice for little ones. Do
of nothing but acute arsenical were in Mercy sanitarium in price of print paper and other “The usual mammoth crowd your Christmas hinting early.
poisoning, he said. He based his Manistee last March. Blanche factors. We cannot in justice filled the courtroom today, with “As Noah Heap puts it: The
opinion on examination of the said she didn’t care for Amel to other publishers who find all of Fountain and half of the average man spends too much
stomach, liver and kidneys. and never did. She thought it next to impossible to secure northern section of the county time making money and too
“‘No other thing but arsenic he had more money when she print at any price, continue this in attendance. Every noon the little time enjoying it.
could produce such a liver,’ he married him than he had, form of extravagance. courthouse lawn presents the “Elder berries are now ripe
said. continued the witness. “As Noah Heap puts it: A appearance of a picnic ground along the Big Manistee River.
“There were no symptoms of “She said she still thought her straight ticket is not necessarily as the spectators at the trial eat Hundreds of pickers in boats
the deceased being an arsenic first husband, Calvin Spurlock, one with all the crooked candi- their lunch. yesterday returned home with
eater or suffering from chronic better. Blanche was divorced dates left off. “The sensation Saturday was big basketsful.
disease, the condition of the from Spurlock in Rochester, “Summer sure has been the testimony of Louis Mottl, “Myron Crowell, a farmer
viscera being entirely different Indiana, in March, 1917, before staging a comeback these brother of Amel. aged about 60 living at the
in acute and chronic cases, he she married Mottl in May, the recent days. Some kicks have “Louis testified that ... shortly Wexford County line, is in
said. same year. even been hard because it was after his brother’s death he jail on the charge of shooting
“In his opinion, from “The widow did not weep at ‘too warm.’ asked Mrs. Mottl what caused Mrs. Carrie Everling, aged 45,
symptoms as he was told them, the side of her husband’s grave “‘Autumn may be here,’ the burns on Amel’s mouth. Saturday afternoon in Cleon
Mottl got his first dose of in Fountain on April 25 ... said remarked the office grouch Mrs. Mottl replied, he said, that Township. Mrs. Everling, who
arsenic with the lunch his wife Undertaker Rupert Stevens. yesterday, as he wiped his pepsin was the cause. had been keeping house for
prepared for him and he ate the She had a handkerchief over her heated brow, ‘but I wish I had “‘I answered that pepsin Crowell for three years, left him
night he was taken ill. The large eyes and made sobbing sounds the straw lid I tossed into the would not hurt a baby,’ Louis Thursday, Sept. 23. She went to
amount of arsenic found in his readily heard, he said, but when ash can the other day,’ testified, ‘and Blanche then said work for a person by the name
stomach indicated that the last he had occasion to speak to her “Twelve hours and three to me that Amel’s body was so of Rippo in Manistee County.
dose had been administered she took the handkerchief down minutes of daylight. full of poison that even pepsin “After discovering the loss
within 48 hours of death. The and neither her eyes nor her “U. Tellum says: ‘Many a shoe burned him.’ of his housekeeper, Crowell
development of purgin on the voice betrayed signs of weeping, loses its sole by trusting a con- “Justice Greve’s court was immediately went to Rippo’s
fourth day indicated, he said, he testified. scienceless vamp.’ the scene of a heart-rending place to see if she was there.
that the second dose was likely “Sheriff Colyer ... told of “Henry William Nordhouse, tragedy Saturday night at the Sensing trouble Rippo said she
taken into his stomach about going to the Mottl home ... Mrs. an ex-mayor and prominent hearing of Mrs. Eva Hall, 54 wasn’t … [A] neighbor informed
that time. Mottl produced two pieces of business man of Manistee, Filer Street, who was charged Crowell Mrs. Everling was with
“CHICAGO, Sept. 24 bread from a cell under the hen passed away at 10:45 Saturday with keeping a disorderly Rippo. Crowell then went to
— Convincing evidence that house, the sheriff said, telling night at his home, 365 Second house. the place again, armed with a
crookedness exists in organized him she had placed arsenic on Street. Death was due to “Last week the police doublebarrelled shotgun and a
baseball has been obtained by it to kill rats … ‘She said she had complications, starting with received a complaint of a theft revolver. He entered the house
the Cook county criminal grand none [of the arsenic] ]left,’ cirrhosis of the liver and ending of $45, and the man who made in a rage and found her in a
jury, according to a statement “State chemist Charles with an apoplectic stroke. He the complaint said the inmates bedroom, it is said.
here today by P. H. Brigham, L. Bliss [testified that the was 56 years old. of Mrs.Hall’s home stole the “At the sight of her he fired
foreman. slices] were spread with a fat “Mr. Nordhouse was born in money. two shots into her arm. She ran
“The alleged crookedness, substance with which arsenate the township of Hamlin, Mason “On entering the place the to the sitting room where he
however, is not widespread, of lead had been mixed, but county .. .he opened a cash officers found two men with struck her head with the butt of
Brigham said. It is confined to a there was no arsenic trioxide on and credit store in Manistee in the mother and daughter. The the shotgun.
few players and is caused by an the bread. 1900 which has since grown to daughter in court charged her “Mrs. Everling fled from
unscrupulous gang of profes- “Mrs. Mottl had purchased be one of the leading business mother with leading her astray, the house and down the road,
sional gamblers. two ounces of arsenate of establishments in Manistee. testifying that at one time she with Crowell at her heels.
“Brigham declared that if the lead ... on the Friday after her “Death came as the result made a date for her with a man. Several men who saw the chase
evidence warrants indictments husband was taken sick ... Two of several years’ illness. He “This the mother denied captured Crowell and disarmed
will be returned. purchases of arsenic trioxide managed to withstand the firmly. She charged her him. Officers at Manistee were
“Both candidates seem to were made by her on Sunday weakening effect of his malady daughter with going to then notified.
think that traveling westward and Monday following…. until five weeks ago ... when he Ludington and breaking up a “The woman is not believed
will bring them nearer to Wash- “That he and his brothers was forced to take to his bed. home there. She also said her to be seriously wounded.”

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