The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-07
Three Killed and Another
Beaten Into Tnsensibility.
Bodies of Two Female Victims
Found in Their Home.
TWO BROTHERS SHOT.
Found in the Woods Half a Nile
From House.
Their Pockets Turned Inside
Out and Watches Gone.

MIddletown, y. Y, Oct. IA triple
murder was revealed here today 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 tie girl
Alice. The mother who was found
unconscious in the barn of the Olney
brothers last night had not regained
consciousness and was believed to be
dying.
AS soon as daylight permitted
search was made for Fred and
Willis Olney, who were missing from
their home last night, where Mrs.
Ingerick was found unconscious ana
her daughter murdered. Fresh wagon
tracks leading across a field to a woods
near the house were traced. Just be-
yond them in the woods were found
the bodies of Fred and Willis, lying on
their backs, each with one arm across
the breast. Their pockets 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 is the same We
noticed in the vicinity of the Olney
farm. Two strangers were in this
wagon, which was seen going up the
old road about 3 p m. when 1t disap-
peared in the woods. At IL O'Clock
at night, several hours after the time
when it is believed the murders were
committed, the wagon was seen on the
same road going away from the vicin-
ity of the Olney farm and toward the
ShaWanogunk mountains.
Motive Other Than Robbery.
THE fact that an attempt was made
to kill every person who was known
to have been in the Olney house has
caused the police to declare that there
were other motives than robbery for
the crime and that the riling Of the
Olney brothers pockets was only a
ruse to mislead pursuers. As yet,
/ however. no plausible theory for the
murders has been advanced.
The four persons in the house about
dark yesterday according to -Lulu
Ingerick, who left the place shortly
before the tragedy, were Willis Olney,
81 years, Fred Olney, So years old,
/ Mrs. Ingerick, the housekeeper of the
/ two brothers, and her small daughter
| Alice. Lulu, who is 81 years old, went
/ to AfiddIetOWn, returning in time for a
late supper. Finding the house empty
! the girl in fright summoned nelghDorS
who searched the premises. Alice was
found dead in the cellar, her head
! beaten with an iron pipe Her mother
/ was found IN the Ddfn apparently
| beaten by the same instrument which
was picked up on the kitchen floor by
the searching party.
willis OIney was a widower and
| Frank was a bachelor
Mrs. Ingerick, who had separated
from her husband, had been employed
as housekeeper at the Olney brothers
place only about month. Her hus-
band. Martin Ingerick, lived at Wurtz-
boro, not far from MiddletOWn.
In the house no traces of robbery
have vet been found. The only ar
ticles of value known to have been
taken from the two brothers in the
rifing of their pockets were two silver
watches. Considerable comment was
| excited here by the similarity of posi-
tion 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 an
odd circumstance about these wounds
was that they were 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.