Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-13
1[[|S OF 1HE CRIME
Parties Implicated in the Case Of
Child Murder at Eagle Grove
Confess.
Daughter Tells How Her Husband
and Mother Killed Her Help.
less Babe.
How the Story Was Secured The
Iowa Campaign-Munic
League officers.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to TimeS-Republican.
Eagle Grove, Oct 13.-There have
been some sensational developments in
the Hubbard Wilcox child murder case
during the last thirty-six hours.
Mrs Job Wilcox gave signed state
ment to Marshal Bert Fisher Tuesday
stating that her daughter, Ida Hub
bard, had used drugs before the child
was born 10 cause its death Fisher
took the statement to Clarion and fold
| ing it so only the name, Mrs. Job
1 Wilcox could be read. asked Ida Hub
bard if she knew the writing. The girl
that her mother had tried to put the
crime on her. She told Fisher that she
was ready to tell all the truth. She was
taken before County Attorney Fening-
err. County Clerk Brass and Marshals
Fisher and Mulligan, of Eagle Grove
where she told the following. story:
when the child was born my hus-
band, Aaron Hubbard, and my mother,
Mrs. Job Wilcox, waited upon me and
We're the only ones in the room They
| spoke of putting 1T out of the way and
! when the little thing cried / begged
them to give me my child. My mother
told me to shut my mouth and pressed
me down in the bed. My husband then
seized the infant and threw it into a
large bucket standing by the bed The
child still cried only harder and l
screamed. My mother told me again to
ishut up or would raise the neighbors,
Ibut continued to scream as loud as /
could. My husband rushed into the
Kitchen and returned with a bucket of
water and poured it on to the still sob
bling babe, after which he stuffed in an
old blanket. when the cries ceased and /
became unconscious, did not know
/ the next day where they had buried it,
and only found out the day we left the
house. l was standing in the cellar way
handing up Jars when my mother said:
Ida, take a good look al that northwest
/ corner. for it is the grave of your baby.
i i hate to tell this about my mother. but
i I am convinced that these officers know
the whole truth
Such is Ida Hubbard's statement
sworn to and perhaps the same as given
j to the grand jury. The sheriff came tt
Eagle Grove yesterday and took Mrs
A Wilcox from her sick daughter, who is
. no better and may die any time, anC
now has her in the Clarion Jail to an
swer to the charge of murder alont
with her son-in-law, Aaron Hubbard /
seems that Hubbard was not arrested ;
moment too soon, for railroad checl
was found on his person and no doub
a ticket had been bought. Much credi
is due Marshals Burt Fisher and Pa
Mulligan for the prompt action taker
and the skill displayed in forcing a con
fession which Will no doubt save the
county much expense and greatly sim
plify matters when the case comes e
a trial.
An account of how the truth was run
down may be of interest here. Abou
ia month aga Burt Fisher was watching
the house of Ida Hubbard in order t,
obtain evidence to raid the place. /
j was night and he was standing inside
of barn in the alley when two mer
!, stopped a few feet away and one O
. them said: she don't want TO get fun
Inv with me, for j know where sh,
buried her baby Fisher never forgo
Those words. lie knew that the She
spoken of was Ida Hubbard. When tn
raid was made last Friday night ant
Ida Hubbard and Mrs. Lugar We're ar
rested, Harry Lugar, the latter's hus
band, came to Fisher for sympathy
Fisher talked awhile and finally said
''Lugar, you know something about Id
: Hubbard's baby" Lugar told him tina
: the child was buried in the northwes
: corner of the cellar of the old house
When the bones were dug up Lugar ad
mitted that his wife had heard the stor
. from Mrs. Wilcox. Fisher hurried t
Clarion and obtained from Mrs. Luga
: facts which brought about the arrest
of the two guilty parties and the con
i fession of Ida Hubbard.
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