Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-06
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In Wood, ! Farm Hand, Raylshss
His Employers Wife During
Husbands Abssnoa
Wood Arrested and Lodged IN Jail
Husband Wanted to Kill
Him,

have the appearance Of being true, Lee
Wood, man from the sunny south. Is
guilty OF a crime az foul az any that res
suit In lynching bee In his section Of
the country. Wood 10 charged with raw
fishing his employers wife after entering.
her room in the middle Of the night and
soaring her into submission at the point
Of shotgun. Wood appears not to have
been frightened by the recent conviction
|of q man for similar tho less daring;
crime. In the arrest OF Wood 1t devel-i
ops that the officers have an escaped
convict in their custody.
Wood has been employed, since July
last, by Mr.. f. o. Hinecker as farm
hand. Mr.. Hinecker resides on the
Scurr farm, two miles north Of Gilman.
Wood appeared to be good worker and
altho Mr.. Hinecker had been apprised OF
the fact that he was wanted In North
Carolina to complete a sentence for .
Icrime committed there he retained him.
Wood is a married man and Thursday
night was expecting his wife from the
south, He induced his employer to come
to this city and meet her. as Hinecker
was also expecting relative, and it was
arranged that MIR. Hinecker and the
guests would remain with friends near
this city during the night. II appears
now that Wood, in bringing about this
arrangement, was simply assisting in
the accomplishment of an evil design.
Friday evening Mr.. Hinecker was
again in the city, this time to secure a
Warrant for Woods arrest. He swore
out information in Justice Aliens court
charging his hired man Wild the crime
OF rape. According to the story told to
Hinecker by hiswife, Wood entered her
room at an early hour Friday morning
before she had arisen, with cooked
shotgun in his hands, and compelled the
woman. on threatsstfat he would MUIR
der her if she refused. to submit to his
ilustful desires II was some time after
Hinecker's return home and after the
arrival of Woods wife before the vic
itim mustered courage to tell the story
Ito her husband as she said Wood told
her he would kill her II she did co. Hin-
ecker declared at once his intention 10
secure HE gun and kill Wood, but was
prevented from doing so by his rela-
ltfves, and 50 came to this city to secure
4 the mans arrest. Before leaving his
I'honle he induced some of his neighbors
Ito remain at his house and proven,
4 Wood from leaving, as he is of the opin-
lion that It was his intention to do so
land he had been abusing his own wife
latter her arrival.
4 Deputies Hutson and MCFARLAND
4 drove to the Hinecker home Frida.
might, arrested Wood and lodged him ii
1.-The county Jail. When arrested he asked
the officers If his arrest was for tina
chain gang DEAL and when told that II
4 was, he told his wife they might as vel
say good-bye as she would never SET
dh!m again. Inquiry Of Mr.. Hinecker re.
iyealed to the Off Gers the fact that Woo
a was an escaped convict from NORTH
4 Carolina, where he broke a nesros head
4 and was sentenced for 80 doing. While
1 working on the chain gang he managed
to escape and came north.
Mrs. Wood did not seem to griev,
much because of her husbands arres
4 SO soon after her arrival here and, ap
APPARENTLY, was not at all surprised. Hin
ecker Is man about 35 years of ag,
q and hasso one child, which accompanied
!! its mother If the charges alleged b.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hinecker be true. he vii
undoubtedly go to the penitentiary 70
a longerterm than that e,nb bodied in thu
sentence Of Russie.
81 The prisoner was arraigned befor
Z Justice Allen at 2 clock this afternool
and pleaded not guilty. His hearin
was set for Wednesday morning at
& O'Clock