Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-07
FIND TRIPLE MURDER
Revelations in Deaths at Mid
dletown, N. 7.
TWO BROTHERS KILLED
DAUGHTER MURDERED, MOTHER
DYING WITH FRACTURED SKULL.
Believed to Have Been Other Motives
Than Robbery for Commission
of the Crime.

Without clue to the murderer of mur
derers, and lacking anything more definite
! than vague surmises as to motive, the au
| thorities at Middletown. N. Y, are trying
| today to solve the mystery surrounding
| the murder last night of nne-year-old Alice
| Ingerick and Willis and Fred Olney, and
| the probably fatal assault on Mrs Ingerick
| the girls mother.
Mrs. 1ngerick. who was separated from
| her husband and who acted as housekeep-
| er for the Olneys. was beaten into uncon-
sciousness by her assailants Up to II
O'Clock today she had not been revived and
the physicians attending her believe she
Will die without being able to tell the
story of the killing of her daughter and hel
employers. Mrs. Ingerick and her daugh-
ter were beaten with a blunt instrument,
presumably piece of iron pipe The child
was dead when found. The mothers skull
was fractured In three places and she an
parently was in dying condition
AS soon as 1t was known that murder
iau peen committed search was begun
Ior the Olneys. who were missing Today
their bodies were found in a woods near
their home. Wagon tracks nearby indica ted
that the men had been killed at some other
point and the bodies taken to the woods
me auehorlties are now endeayoring to
trace wagon seen in the vicinity of the
Oineys' house yesterday
MIDDLEToWN. N Y. October IA
the bodies of Willis and Fred Olney were
round In the woods half a mile from the
nome, In which last night was fo1nd the
murdered hr body of Alice Ingerick. Both
Drothers had been shot. Before night the
crime IS expected to number one more vic
lini' MRS. Georgia Ingerdck, mother of the
girl Alice. The mother, who was fo,ind
unconscious rs es IN the barn of the olney Broth
sclousness, and was said by physicians to-
her skull 60 al
AS soon as daylight permitted a search
10 De made for Fred and Willis Olney who
were missing from their home last night
When Mrs. 1ngerick was found unconscious
ana her daughter murdered, wagon tracks
.e .eaoang across two fields to woods near
tne mouse were seen by the searchers.
The tracks were fresh. Just beyond them
N the woods were found the bodies Of Fred
and Willis, each lying in the same position
On .neir packs with one arm across the
breast. All the pockets in their clothing
had been turned inside out. Marks on the
underbrush showed that the bodies had
peen dragged from the wagon to the place
where they were found.
Carried Bodies to Woods.
The police believe that the wagon, which
evidently carried the murdered brothers IN
the woods, Is the same vehicle which sew
eral persons yesterday noticed in the vi
cinity of the Olney farm. Two strangers
We're IN this wagon. and they drove into
an old back woods road about half a mile
away from the Olney home This same
wagon was seen going up the old road
about pm. when 1t disappeared in the
woods. AT II o'clock at night. several
hours after the time when 1t is believed
that the murder was committed, the wagon
was seen on the same road going aWay
from the vicinity Of the olney farm and
toward the Shawangunk mountains.
Ihe fact that an attempt was made to
XIII every person who Is known to have
been In the Olney house has caused the
police and the entire -neighborhood to de-
clare that there were other motives than
robbery for the commission of the crime.
and that the riiing of the Olney brothers.
pockets was only ruse to mislead pur-
suers. AS yet, however. no plausible theory
for the murders has been advanced
Four Persons in the Rouse.
The four persons In the house about dark
yesterday, according to Lulu Ingerick,- who
left the place shortly before the tragedy,
were Willis Olney. sixty-two years old;
Fred Olney, fifty-eight years old; Mrs. In
gerfck. the housekeeper of the two BROTH
ers. and her small daughter Alice. Lulu.
who is thirteen years old, went to Middle
town. returning in time for late supper,
Finding the house empty, the girl in fright
summoned neighbors. who searched the
premises. Alice was found dead in the
cellar. her head beaten with an iron pipe,
Her mother was found unconscious in the
barn, apparently beaten by the same in
strument, which was picked UP on the
kitchen floor by the searching party
Willis Olney was a widower and Fred
was bachelor.
Woman Had Left Her Husband.
Mrs. Ingerick, who had separated from
her husband. had been employed as house
keeper at the Olney brothers place only
about month. Her husband Martin In
gerick. lived at Wurtsboro, a town not far
from Middletown.
In the house no traces of robbery have
yet been found. The only articles of value
known to have been taken from the two
brothers in the rifiing of their pockets were
two silver watches. Considerable comment
was excited here by the similarity OF posi-
ton of the two bodies found In the woods,
as each had the right hand crossed over
the breasts in the same position.
Fred Olney's body had two bullet wounds
in the right side, and an odd circumstance
about these wounds was that they were
under the right arm in suoh q position that
the arm must have been raised high before
the shots were fired. Willis Olney was shot
through the right ear.
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