Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-28
THINK THEY HIVE 0.[N
Des Moines Detectives Believe They
Have Trace Of Murderers of
Mabel schofeld.
Now Thought She Was Killed in
City and Then Taken to the
River.
Three More Arrests Made In Con-
nection With the Recent Mitch
ellville Riot.

Des Moines, Oct. 2s.-The two men
who placed the body of Mabel Scho-
field in the river just below the bath
house at daylight Sunday morning
| took the dead body there in buggy.
AT o'clock, on their way up West Sec
ond street, they stopped at Ridge street
| and had an alteration as to whether
| the right road led north or east. Their
alteration attracted the attention of
Mrs. r. N. Dean, who stood in the door
of her home, two rods from where the
buggy stood, and listened. The body
of the dead girl was supported between
the two men in the buggy. The largest
man had his arm about it, but it had
slipped partially down from the seat;
the head was thrown back, and Mrs.
Dean concluded the girl was sick or
had tainted. After their alteration
labout the proper direction to go the
men drove north. Monday evening
when her husband returned from his
work Mrs. Dean told him about the cir
cumstances and said the girl in the
buggy was either sick or fainting
Last evening reporter went with
DIR. NJ. w. Clarity to the home of Mrs
Dean. DIR. Clarity has insisted for three
days that he saw Mabel Schofield Sat
urday evening, between and o'clock
at the corner of Fourth and Locust
streets, talking with two men. One of
them was short-Dr. Clarity describes
! him as not over 5 feet 8 inches tall. The
other was tall; both were young and
smooth shaven. Mrs Dean, after lis
tening to this description, said it tailed
/ with her observation of the two men in
the buggy at O'Clock Sunday morning
But this is not all. Mrs. j. N.
4 Thomas, at whose house Mabel lived
yesterday gave reporter a group pic
ture of the high school graduating class
of Mabel Schofield There We're six
4 young ladies in the group. Mrs. Dean
4 took the picture and held it under a
Hight and said:
/ II only saw the girl in the dim light.
partly from the moon and partly OF
early morning. l cannot be certain, but
4 L should say this is the girl who was in
4 the buggy between the two men And
A with this she placed her finger on the
picture of Mabel Schofeld
4 Mrs. Dean, asked about the buggy in
which the three persons sat, said it
either had no top, or if it had one the
top was down. The horse was not
white; further than that she could not
say. The party finally drove on north.
!, Mrs. Dean, when asked whether the
buggy had rubber or metallic tires
said she believed from the noise ii mad.
lin passing over the crossngs-the
street there is not paved-that it was
rubber tired
Yesterday afternoon an investigation
was made of the route by which such
a buggy could have reached the river
. after going north from Mrs. Deans
home. In an unfrequented place on the
river bank, away from the roads, and
where there We're no other evidences
of travel, the tracks of a rubber tired
, buggy We're still to be seen. These
were at such point that, had the
girls body there been taken from tbs
buggy and dragged to the river, il
would have been dragged or carried
through a thick growth of burrs and
nettles, such as We're found on the girls
$ clothing.
Il At 10 O'Clock last evening Mrs. Dear
t entered a carriage with two reporters
$ and was driven TO the once OF coroner
3 Ankeny on Grand Avenue. Coronel
t Ankeny was absent, but the office was
: not locked. Mrs. Dean walked inside
E The hat which was on Mabel Schoheld's
, head when her body wa. round hung or
/ the wall above the coroner's desk. /
was taken down and handed to Mrs
Dean. 1t was a light felt military hat
With broad brim and high crown: thu
crown was crushed in by the band
bullying out again above the band. 1
e is one of the type of coal scuttle" hat
c so much affected in the last few month
a by young women.
8 Mrs. Dean took the hat in her hand
: turned 1T over, shaped the broad brin
r in different ways. studying the variou
!. shapes thus produced, and then said:
r yes, it was a hat of that style ant
s pattern, am sure. 1 can't say that /
L was this hat, of course, but l know /
was one like this. As I saw it on tn,
girls head it was tipped or pushed bacl
little on her head; her head was ais
thrown back; the front of the brim wa
n