Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-07

Middletown, N Y, Oct TIA triple murder was revealed here to-day when the bodies of Willis and Fred Olney were found in the woods half a mile from their home at which last night was found the murdered body of Alice .Ingerick. Both brothers had been shot. Before night the crime is expected to number one more victim, Mrs Georgia Ingerick, mother of the girl Alice. The mother, who was found uncon- scious in the barn of the Olney broth CTS farm last night, has not regained consciousness and was said by phy- sicians to-day to be dying with three fractures in her skull.
 As soon as daylight permitted search was made for Fred and Willis Olney, who were missing from their home last night, when Mrs lngerick was found unconscious and her daughter murdered. Wagon tracks, leading across two fields near the house. were seen by the searchers. The tracks were fresh. Just beyond them in the woods were found the bodies of Fred and Willis. each lying in the same position on their backs with one arm across the breast. All the pockets in their clothing had been turned inside out. Marks in the un- derbrush showed that the bodies had been dragged from the wagon to the place where they were found.
 The police believe that the wagon. which evidently carried the murdered brothers to the woods. to be the same vehicle which several persons yester- day noticed in the vicinity of the Ol- 4 ney farm. Two strangers were in this wagon and about D. m. they drove into back woods road about half a mile away from the Olney farmhouse. At II o'clock at night, several hours after the time when 1t is believed that the murder was committed, this wagon was seen driving away from the vi- cinity of the Olney brothers farm. The wagon went toward the Shawang- unk mountains. The police have no record of the wagons course between 3 and II D. m.
 The fact that an attempt was made to kill every person who is known to have been in the 0lney house has caused the police to declare that the crime had other motives than robbery, and that the rifing of the Olney brothers pockets was only ruse to mislead pursuers.
 The four persons in the house about dark yesterday, according to Lulu In gerick, who left the places shortly before the murder. were Willis Ol- ney, 62 years old; Fred 0lney, 5S years old; Mrs Ingerick. the housea keeper of the two brothers; and her small daughter, Alice. Lulu, who is 13 pears old went to Middletown. re- turning in time for a late supper. Finding the house empty the girl summoned neighbors who searched the premises. Alice was found dead fin the cellar, her head beaten with an iron pipe. Her mother was found un- conscious in the barn apparently beat en by the same instrument which was picked up on the kitchen floor by the searching party.
 No plausible motive for the murder has yet been advanced by the police. Willis Olney was wid0wer, whose wife died last August, and Fred was a bachelor.
 Mrs Ingerick who had separated from her nuSDanu Hdu Deeh tlhplOsNu as a housekeeper at the Olney broth ers' place only about month. Her husband Martin Ingerick lived at Wurtsboro. town not for from Mid dletown.
 In the house no traces of robbery \ have yet been found. Considerable comment was excited here by the sim ilarity of position of the two bodies found in the woods as each had the right arm crossed over the breast in the same position. Fred Olney's body had two bullet wounds in the right side and they were said to be under the right arm in such a position that the arm must have been raised high before the shots were fired. Willis Olney was shot through the right ear.