Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-28
THE SHER|FF G[|SBLDK
After Working to the River In
Search Of Suspects Sheriff Nc
Pherson ReturAa
The Three Men Arrested at Keystone
TO Be Held Longer May Be
the Murderers.
G. 7. Barnes Valves Examination
and is Bound Over--Fails to
Secure Bonds.

Sherim Mcpherson and Detective I.
r. Cleary, the latter of the Chicago
Great Western, arrived in the city Sun
day morning, after having been contin-
uously on. the hunt for the murderers Of
Brakemen Wilson and Matthews since
last Tuesday morning.
The officers continued the search for
the three men seen In the vicinity of
Grinnell and Dixie and who were sup
posed to have escaped on a Rock Is
land train. Messrs. Mcpherson and
Cleary were not together on the trip,
but both worked through to Davenport
and met there. Having found no fur
Their trace of the men they were seek
ing, they concluded it was best to re-
turn to this city and await develop,
ments. The officers think 1t is possible
that the men they have been following
and with whom the posse had fight at
Grinnell were some of the escaped pris-
oners from the Polk county Jail. Five
prisoners escaped from the capital city
Jail on the night of the murder and
have not yet been captured.
The county officials are not yet con-
WINGED that the three suspects arrested
at Keystone the day following the muir
der are the men wanted. County At
torney Stone this morning concluded
to mold the men three days longer to
await developments. The men answer
the description in a general way of the
three men seen in this city prior to the
departure OF the train of the fated
brakemen. They gave their names as
NJ. Simpson, w. McCubbins and Marion
HARRISON. Simpson is the big man of
the trio .and his countenance stamps
him as hardened criminal. These men,
provided they are the murderers, would
have had just about time to reach Key
stone had they continued the journey
to Melbourne on the Great Western
train on which the murder was COM
mitted. They were put off a Milwaukee
train at Elberon, the first station west
of Keystone, and walked into the latter
town, where they We're arrested at 10:45
o'clock in the forenoon following the
murder. When they arrived a group
of men was discussing the murder, and
the keystone people say that Simpson,
the large man, started off across the
country alone. His companions disap-
peared and were later found in hiding
/ under an elevator. All We're arrested
and have since been In custody here.
| Simpson so far has refused to have
lanything to say concerning himself, ex-
| cept that he halls from Indiana. The
Iother two men have told conflicting
stories. and because of all the sus-
picious circumstances the MEN will be
| held awhile longer in the hope that
something definite can be learned con-
corning them. Soon after their arrest
lthey Informed the officers that they
should look for three men they saw
hiding under culvert near Keystone.
Sheriff Mcpherson asked the city mar
| shall at keystone to be on the lookout
for the three referred to by the tramps,
but the marshal later sent word that he
had secured the country for fifty miles
and had found no trace of the men
whatever. For this reason 1t is believed
| that the story of the prisoners about
| the three men they saw in hiding is a
fabrication concocted to mislead the
officers