Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-10-25
BURGLARS entered the house Of W. IT.

of the burglars and was fired at three
times. The police came and after a
hard chase both burglars were cap
tured, one being shot.
John A. Ayres, 16-year-old son of
Editor S. p. Ayres, of the Knoxville
Journal, left a note bidding his mother
loving goodbye and expressing a
| hope that he would meet her in a bet
| ter world, took his fathers revolver
and started for the pasture with the
cow. He did not return and search
was instituted. His dead body was
| found in a lonely spot in the pasture.
with bullet hole running from his
| right temple clear through his head.
| No cause is known for the act, as he
was healthy and apparently without
trouble of any kind
The Iowa State Dairy Association
will hold it's eighteenth annual con-
vention at the Agricultural college
November 14-16, 1894 The meetings
of this association have always reflect
ed the high character of the Iowa dairy.
interest and the coming meeting
promises to compare favorably with
any former one-which is SAYING a
good deal. The topics introduced are
always practical and discussed with
temperance and courtesy. The col
lege, experiment station and creamery
are objects of interest which those who
attend will have ample opportunity to
in FEhnca Nuh
pitably entertained at the college, and
reduced rates by rail have been grant
ed, on the basis of 100 present from
abroad. Address c. l.. Gabrilsen, sec
rotary, New Hampton, Iowa.
l 1t is said the United States revenue
officers in search for the assailants of
Deputy United States Marshal Wray
have discovered Il startling state of
things in Monroe and Wapello coun-
ties. For over year gang of boot
leggers have infested Monroe county
and when pursued would sink out of
sight, as though the earth had swal-
lowed them up. A number of counter
feiters have also been traced as far as
Ottumwa and thence escaped the most
diligent search of officials Late de-
velopments in the attack on Wray have
led the officers to believe that there is
an organized gang of moonshiners and
counterfeiters, who hide in the
abandoned mines in the wild regions
of Monroe and Wapello counties, and
that this accounts for the sudden dis.
nf
counterfeiters 1t is thought that Bill
Cramer, the noted dcsperado, who is
under Indictment for murder, is at the
head of the gang, and when the secret
service officers make their man hunt it
will disclose all kinds of Illicit stills
and counterfeiters' quarters.
James Dooley was hanged at the
Fort Madison pcnitentiary at 1915 on
the afternoon of the 10th. His nerve
did not forsake him and he walked to
the scaffold without assistance He
made short Speech saying the law
was defective, and he hoped those
present and the executioner would be
forgiven by God as he had been.
ecution. Sheriff Eldridge, of Adams
county, sprung the trap. The crime
for which Dooley paid the death
penalty was the murder of his aunt,
Mrs. w. II. Coons. and his cousin,
Nellie Coons, aged 10 years, on the
night of May IL, 1892, near Prescott,
Iowa. On that night the husband and
father of the murdered women left
home on a trip. Next day he found his
wife and daughter dead in one room.
The condition of his wife's clothing in
dicated an outrage had been attempted
prior to the murder. Dooley, who
lived with his uncle, was missing, but
on May 18th was captured near Viii
lisca. He was convicted and after
wards admitted mis- crime. He was 10
years of age and a victim of cigarettes
and yellow ba cl1ed literature.
A few days agoa lady about 20 years
of age arrived in Madrid from Boone.
She made no business known, neither
did she have any baggage. Her gen
eral appearance was not striking, eX-
cept that she had harelip. She ate
q hearty dinner at the Forest House,
after which she consulted Dr. Brown
for what she called heart disease. AS
the doctor was busy he told her to
leave her name, which she did, giving
it as Miss Mary Wilson of Cedar Rapids,
and agreed to call at 4 p. m. She then
went back to the Forest House, and
called for a spoon and glass of water.
This was about 3 o'clock in the after
doom. Between land Landlord Scott,
hearing cries of agony, Immediately
went to her room. Finding it locked,
he bursted the door open, where she
was found on the bed in dying con-
| dition. Drs. Sturgeon and Farr were
summoned and pronounced the case
hopeless, as they found that she had
taken arsenic in such quantity as to
eat out her vitals. A note was found
under her pillow, and read as follows:
my name is Mary Wilson, of Cedar
Rapids. l take this poison because of
cruel treatment, not from my parents
but from those outside, trying to get
me into an insane asylum. My parents
have been good"