Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-12
ELUDES OFFICERS.
JohnMarx, ConnecticutFarmcr,
Still at Liberty.
Sheriff and Posse Making Search of
Surrounding Country.
Accused of Killing Joseph Powell, =
Farm Hand.

Colchester. Conn. April 11.-Joiln
Marx, the farmer FOR whom the local
and county authorities have been
searching since the body &: jos. PaVell
farm hand. was found on his premises
last Thursday. was still at large Mon
day morning. In spite of the fact that
an alarm had been sent through al
the towns in this section, including I'll Is
more iSolater districts, Marx has sue
ocedcd in eludinE his pursuers though
ne is still thought to be somewhere
ncreabouts
E1rly Monday Sheriff Geo. o. Jack
son and Il posse We're conducting their
search in the town of Salem, Just south
OF Colchester. 1t is now known that in
addition to clipping his flowing gray
beard close t. his face. Marx has made
q change Of clothing since he disappear
Cd. lie IS now supposed to be wearing
llGft brown hat and light overcc2t
which h" obtained ~ the home Of Il fell
low cOGntryman OH Saturday night. He
rad previously Worn q dark sweater
This Information was brought to sheriff
jackson by Il Salem resident who IS
said To have talked with Marx but as
the sheriff was not notified until about
ten hours later, the trail was not very
fresh when picked up. According 70 the
Salem man. Marx stated that he was in
hiding because he had had trouble with
his family. 1t deyeloned Monday that
rs q result of tho search for Marx he
had been confused by some persons
with another resident Of Colchester,
German, named John Marks The man
for whom search is Icing made il 4
Russian Jew. The other Colchester
man. named Marks. has children anu
other relatives i'll various parts o. the
country ana since the aanGtnCcmen
Of the murder he has been annoyed by
the receipt Of kilograms ana letters Of
inquiry about the matter. The riistnle
is sand to have arisen when the WIFI
mantle officers searched the house Of 4
daughter of Marks in that city ana
obtained from he" information about
her father and relatives, showing: that
he was related to the man wanted in
Colchester.
According to Mrs. Marx. who is under
surveillance at her home here. her hus-
band has had other wives but how maaY
&Hoc docs not know. She said She had
ht IN married to him about seven years
They have four children. the youngest of
whom is one year old. Mrs. MARX is
about - wears old. She told Coroner f.
II. Brown that she knew nothiE. abYul
the death of Pavoll ana supposed II" had
gone away to get employment elsewhere.
until she was told that his body had hrr.,
found in n bag III collar on the farm.
The theory on which the coroner is
working in his stiyation is that the
Farmland was killed while asleep with a
blow from an axe. lie is said to hay
slept usually on the noOr of the bodro0m
occupied by Marx. The floor was Gov
cred with z straw mating which is now
missing. 1t is supposed that the murderer
finding the body to heavy to carry from
tn" house cut it up as it lay on I'll" floor
"rd put the petit MS in a bag in the celia.
1t is believed the boad-scakcd MATTE:
WAS afterwards burned.
According to John Strange the farm
hand who found the body and who wa;
acquainted with the murdered man. Marx
agreed to pay Pavoii $50 for thrr" months
service when h. hired PavolI last fail.
Strange did not think Marx had paid Pa
Vo!l anything mp t. The time Of tn i"t-
tr:'s disappearance. Coroner EroNya is
under stood tn hold the theory that de-.
nand made upon Marx for the money
when PaVol desired = 20 away led to the
murder.