Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-28


Sis also positive Gray Id stte man.
Polly Kendall, Octavia streeter and
Fay Hazen, three girls who are ems
sployed at the candy factory. but who
had gone, after their days work, toll
view the operations of the canning esq
Establishment, saw Williams running,
saw the big man in the lead of the four
after him, and saw the fatal shot fired
after Williams had fallen. They were
taken to the jail to inspect Gray and
are quite certain, but not absolutely
positive that he is the one. In their
opinion the three men with Gray were
trying to prevent him from shooting
the colored man.
Another OF the suspects under arrest
has been positively identified by Mr..
Glen and by the Buhrer and Khile girls
as one who was sitting on the beer key
when the trouble commenced. He is a
typical hobo, not very Intelligent, is not
as vicious appearing as Gray, and at
1.-The time was consid erably under the in
tiuence of liquor. This fellow
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff McFar-
land, Clyde Morse and Coroner Lierle
in the southwestern part of town and
while attempting to board a Great
Western freight He resisted arrest but
was overpowered.
THE TWO GIRLS STORY.
From the story told by the Buhrer
| and khile girls and Miss Streeter 1t is
lscertain that Williams misunderstood
| the situation and that misunderstood
4 ing cost him his life. Misses Buhrer and
Khile says that two colored girls who
are larger than they and who are ems
4 ployed at the cannery had been abus-
| ing them, and that one, after they left
| the factory, slapped Rosa Buhrer in the
| face. For this act the tramps, includ-
Ling Gray, interfered in behalf OF the
1 white girls, and before Williams and
Glen arrived the colored girls had dis
appeared from the scene. The interfer-
ence of the tramps in the smaller girls
4 behalf is the only eXtenuating clrcum-
| stance on their part in the whole af
/ fair. Williams, however. from his dy-
ling statement made to several, includ-s
ling Miss Streeter. was under the im-
Epression that the tramps had insulted
4 the white girls. Miss Streeter says
4 when Williams went past her on his
/ way to the cannery Office he exclaimed:
4 They have done it! They have done
Hit" adding that they had insulted the
\ White girls and that he resented it,
/ Whether they did SO or not the girls do
not say, but owing to their youth they.
smayr not have understood the proposals
i of the tramps.
John Raber was also brought up to
Identify Gray, but he was not able to.
gay positively that he was the man a
/ third one of the prisoners, whose name
4 has not been learned he was able to
identify as one of the crowd. This man
admits the fact that he was among the
4 beer drinking party, and is Inclined TO
4 tell the wholly story. He says five of
4 the men started to Tama on freight
train, and word from that place says
4 that number of suspects We're taken
from train by the officers there and
are being held. Sheriff Shoemaker went
4 to Tama at noon to secure the men and
\ return them to the city ltslooks now as
5lif the whole facts will be known and
ijust punishment meted out to the one
guilty of the foul crime. 1t is time an
4 example was being made of this class
LOT toughs. who are too read y to murder
without provocation.
Forty of the colored men Of the city
Il organized and assisted in the search
a during the night.
j THE MURDERED NAN.
Joseph Williams. the murdered man,
had been q resident of Marshalitown
4 for ten years. He was 40 years of age
and leaves a Wife and six children
three sons and three daughters All OF
1.-THE children are a + home excepting the
Ieldest daughter. Mrs. George Dixon,
4 lwho lives in Rockford. Ill. The modest
4llittle home on ketehum strs was a
4 pretty sad place when visited by a