The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-07-22
KILLED BY
HOBOES
| MILW AUKEE BRAKEMAN STAB
BED TO DEATH AT ARI0N, Ia.
Two Negroes are Supposed Perpetrators
Of Crimes. Sheritf's Posse Captures
One and is After the Other.
.ial to the Daily Nonpareil.

AKRON, Ia, July ~ II eu EOWell,
q brakeman on the Milwaukee railroad,
was assaulted here at o'clock this
morning by two negro hoboes and re-
ceived such injuries that he died on
the train between here and Charter
Oak.
The negroes were attempting to steal
ride when P well discovered them
and ordered the m from the train. One
OF them became saucy and in tie alter
cation that folio we'd Powell Was stabbed
between the short ribs. The negroes
at once disappeared in the darkness
and Powell was taken onto the train
and it proceeded on its way 10 Charter
Oak Before reaching there he died
and his remains were given into the
charge of local undertaken
In running from the train the two
negroes met another hobo white man
by the name of F. II. Pfeitfer. They
told him they had been in Il quarrel
with "brakey" and hoped they had
killed him. Pfeitfer is held 1T Charter
| Oak as a witness.
The two negroes are known TO have
taken their supper at restaurant here
last night After the trouble with the
brakeman they walked to. Dow City, a
small town southeast of here. and took
breakfast. There they learaed that
- g.
separated, one going east and the other
west from the town about II o'clock
this morning.
| At noon Sheriff Powell and a posse Of
men arrived at Dow City and started
in search of the men Part of the men
went east and the other part went west.
The party under Sheriff Bell went east
and at o'clock this evening captured
one OF the men in the high weeds on
the banks of the Boyer river. about two
miles southeast of here. He was at
once taken to the county jail al Deni-
son for fear of violence. The party
which went west has not been heard
from at late hour tonight, but the
men are instructed to stay ia the hunt
till they return with their man dead or
alive,
! Fred Powell, the dead mar, made his
home in Sioux City, as his runs over
the road made that point convenient
for him. He was a single man and his
parents live at Sanborn. La.
County Coroner DR.. w B. Evans O
Arion went to Charter Oak this after
noon to hold an inquest, but adjourned
the hearing till 8 O'Clock tomorrow
morning in order to get witnesses.
TAKEN FROM THE SIOUX CITY JOURNAL
w. H. E. Pfeffer, OF Pipestone
Mimi, carpenter, who was at thu
Arion depot. talked with the shor
negro Immediately after the stabbins
had taken place. The two negroes hat
2 walked back to the station st Ariol
after the train had gone on, and tn
short negro said he had just mad a tigh
with a brakeman. He said the brake
man put his foot upon his hand as b
was attempting to climb up the ladde
of the car. The negro added some
thing about sticking the brakema
with knife.
: AS soon as daylight came posse
started out to hunt the negroes. She
Soll 90 /,
one posse and the constable OF Ario
, headed another Late IN the afternoo
4 the tall negro was captured by Sheri
II Bells posse north Of Arion and take
II to Denison. He said the short negl
II did the cutting and that he was M
N mixed up in the fight.
HI POLICE GATHER IN THE TBAMPS.
n The Sioux City police were noti6e
II of the murder at 3;45 o'clock in til
II morning and squad Of police was
~ the Milwaukee yards to meet the ira.
ii which arrived shortly after 8 ucloc
II Five tramps we're found on the trai
n One of these was a tall negroand it w
ii thought for time that he was tt
n murderer. Considerable ezcitme
~ prevailed among the trainmen in IL
1. yards, and for time Chief of Poll
III Davenport was concerned after II
y safety of his prisoner. The negro ga
III the name of William MacLane ]
ii said his hcme was in Shreveport, [
" His innocence was established as so
$500 as Mr. Piet1er, who had talked wi
an the two negroes at Arion, arrived
Sioux City. MacLane had seen t
other negroes, however, and he "
held The other tramps on the tra
were James Ransom, of Detroit; w
liam Baurer and John Newcom,
of New York city, and 10
4 Mack, OF Springfield. III. All h
seen the pair of negroes, and tb
: were held for possible witnesses.
During the day the police gather
4 in over fifty tramps, but all except t
foregoing were released.
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