Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1905-10-08
TWO BROTHERS
FOUND MURDERED
THREE VICTIMS NOW nF THE
MIDDLET0WN CRIME
Bodies of Men Are Discovered Half a
Mile From Home of Girl Who
Was SIain-Mother Still
Unconscious
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
MIDDLETOWN, N. Y. Oct IA
triple murder was revealed here today
when the bodies Of Willis and Fred Oh
ney were found in the woods half
mile from their home at which last
night was found the murdered body of
Alice Ingerick. Both brothers had been
shot.
The crime is expected to number one
more victim, Mrs Georgia Ingerick,
mtoher of the girl Alice. The mother,
who was found unconscious in the barn
of the Olney brothers last night, had
not regained consciousness and was be-
lieved 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 and her daugh-
ter murdered and fresh wagon tracks
leading across field to woods near the
house were traced. Just beyond 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 underbrush 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
hicle that several persons yesterday
noticed in the vicinity of the Olney
farm. Two strangers were in this
wagon, which was seen going up the
old road about p. m, when 1t disap-
peared in the woods. AT II p. m. sew
eral hours after the time when the
murder was committed, the wagon was
seen on the same road going away
from the vicinity of the Olney farm
and toward the Shawanogunk noun
tains. 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 rifling of
the Olney brothers pockets was only a
ruse to mislead pursuers. AS yet, how>
ever, no plausible theory for the muir
der has been advanced.
Occupants of House
The four persons in the house about
dark yesterday, according to Lulu In
gerick who left the place shortly after
the tragedy, We're Willis Olney, 62I
years old; Fred Olney, SO years old;
Mrs. Ingerick, the housekeeper of the
two brothers, and her small daughter
Alice. Lulu, who is 10 years old, went
to Middletown, returning in time for
empty, the girl in fright summoned
neighbors, who searched the prem
ises Alice was found dead in the Gel
lar, her head beaten with an iron pipe.
Her mother was found in the barn, ap-
parently beaten by the same instIu-
ment which was picked up on the
kitchen floor by the searching party.
Willis Olney was a widower and
Fred was a bachelor.
I,,c oil O
from her husband, had been employed
as housekeeper at the Olney brothers
place only about a month Her huS-
band, Marvin IngericlS, lived at Wurtz-
boro. not far from Midtown. 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 rifling of their
pockets We're two silver watches. Con-
by the similarity of the position Of
the two brothers 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 We're under the
right arm in such a position that the
arm must have been raised high before
the shots We're fired Willis Olney
was shot through the right ear.
The condition OF Mrs. Ingerick re-
NAMED unchanged tonight. A close
watch is being kept on her in the hope
that she may recover consciousness
sufficiently to give some clue TO the
murderers. The physicians in attend
ance do not believe she can recover
District Attorney Sewer today offered
a reward of $500 for the apprehension
of the murderer or murderers and it is
probable that this amount will be in
creased to $500 by the supervisors of
Orange county.
A womans trouble begins when her
husband begins to tell his to sympa-
thetic woman.