Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-28
SHOT BY TRAMPs WITH WHOM HE INTERFERED.

t Large Family.
ter he reached the office. He was asked
there by Husking Boss Hays how the
trouble occurred and he answered SIM
ply that the tramps had insulted two
I little girls and that he had taken 1t up
for them physician was sent for ir1-
mediately after the shooting but did not
arrive until after the man death.
THE MURDERER
A plain view of the murderer was had
by probably a half dozen men employed
1 in and about the canning factory and
lIby several girls who witnessed the
shooting. Mr.. Raber, who went over
1.-THE ground with Mayor Frank G.
Pierce and a Times Republican repre-
sentative. and explained the situations
as they occurred, was without doubt as
near to him as any of the others. He
describes the man as being stockily
built, broad-shouldered and probably
five feet eight or nine inches tall He
was smooth shaver and Wore dark
suit OF clothes. dark shirt and black
slouch hat. He resembled in appear
ers, of which there are manysn the city.
with the murderer, in following Will
tams as the shooting was in progress,
Twas an old umbrella mender, who
.comes to the city every few months and
Invariably gets into trouble and is ar
trested, principally for drunkenness; a
[red-faced, ordirary-looking man of me-
ldium size, and another man, whom Mr.
4 Val n tLxx
1.-The ether three did any Of the shooting
After the shooting the murderer turned
land walked away without the least bit
iof concern. apparently, followed by his
Ithree companions. The6last seen of him
was when he stopped at the beer key.
drew another can Of the beverage and
walked around the stock yards fence
toward the west.
A POSSE ORGANIZED.
As soon as the shooting occurred
Sheriff Shoemaker was notified by tele-
Iphone by Manager y. I, Brchard, of
tine canning company. He hastily sum
simoned his deputies, C. S. Hutson and
NJ. $. Mcfarland and. accompanied by
4 Mr.. Will Shoemaker. who was made a
Especial deputy, left for the scene of the
murder. The members of the city pos
5Elice force were also there I'M few mo-
lments and a posse was soon organized
Land began IL search for the gang of
sIItramps As it was fast growing dark
y the officers We're handicapped, and this
Twas true also from the fact that no one
KNEW in just which direction the man
.lhad gone after he turned the stock
yards fence corner. Sheriff Shoemaker
Il offered q reward of $25 for the mans
5Icapture, and Mayor Pierce one Of 500.
q About dusk A. Barnes, of sol May
a street. accompanied by a friend, was
s'iretNrning from the Williams home and
twas crossing the Linn creek bridge Just
least OF the glucose works, when he was
q I, startled by man jumping from behind
la clump8of weeds and making toward a
'Idenses growth of weeds between the glu-
loose tracks and Arson street AS neitll-
Ter BARNES nor his companion was
EARNED they did not attempt to follow
s|him, but they Immediately informed
lSherin Shoemaker, of8the circumstance,
A Barnes describes the man identically
with the description of the murderer, as
Furnished By Mr.. Raber. The weed
8lpatch was surrounded by men, armed
5Iwith rifles, shotguns and revolvers
within few moments. and as soon as
Il deputies Mcfarland and Hutson could
Iarrtye careful search was made
4 Nothing was found of the culprit who
lever he might have been.
4 PROBABLE MURDERER CAP
TIrRED.
a Every tramp and suspicious stranger
j found within and without the city Was
d grounded up during the early part Of the
eEening, a total of tfirty-iiye arrests
a being made by the sheriff's officers, the
J police and constables and by citizens
a who had taken part in the search. S
4 fast as the arrests We're made the men
A Mere herded in the Third avenue STA
4 ltion and about midnight We're placed in
{, the county jail. Until this time no eff
i fort had been made to identify any of
i those arrested or to make a description
iof them. II developed that the right
II man was Without much doubt, among
n the bunch. and the credit for his cap
u ture is due to Will Shoemaker, the
Z young son of the sheriff,
n This man, who says his name is Gray,
! but furthermore Is as mum as an
was found about 3 O'Clock in the
A BARLEY saloon on South Third avenue
4 Young Shoemaker saw two strangers
4Ipoint the fellow out and his attention
4 was thus attracted to him. Gray was
5Ileaning against the wall back of the
4 crowd, trying 10 attract as little atten-
4 ton as possible. He is a man about
4 six feet in height and weighing about
200 pounds. while Willihas hard work to.
i keep his weight UP to l25, but he
nevertheless stepped up to Gray, whom
he recognized as a man released from
4 jail few days ago. and told him he
4 was under arrest and to walk along
i ahead of him to the police station. AZ
tier sizing young Shoemaker up and
evidently celebrating on the Wisest
course to pursue. Gray concluded to go.
/ to the lookup.
This morning Gray was identified
positively by five or six persons as the
/ man who did the shooting. and also by
1.-THE Buhrer and Khile girls as the one
who talked with them during the quar-
rel. Lewis Cleveland, an employe of
1.-The canning factory. who was a witness
to the shooting and was within fifteen
feet OF Williams when he fell, picked
| Gray from among the thtrty-f1ve sus-8
poets as the man who did the shooting.
1 He Is positive in his declaration. Frank