The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-10-09
NO MOTIVE FOR
AN AWFUL CRIME
As Mysterious As the Identity
of Assassius
TRIO FOUND MURDERED
WOMAN, SOLE SURVIVOR UNABLE
TO THROW ANY LIGHT
UPON TERRIBLE
TRAGEDY.

Middletown. n. Y, Der. S.-With on
ly a slight clew to the nurdercss and
lacking anything more definite /. an
vague surmises as % motive, ts az
thorities are trying to solve tte .ayy
terry surrounding the murder last night
of ne-year-olj Alice Ingerick ami /
Willis and Fred Olney and the prob
able fatal assault ON Mrs. Ingerick, the |
girls mother Mrs lngerick. who was !
separated from her husband and who |
acted as housekeeper fer the Olneys |
vas beaten into unconsciousness by |
Ter assailants The physicians attend |
ng her believe she will die without |
)eing able TO tell the story of the kill |
ms of her daughter and her employers. |
rs soon as it was known that murder |
lad been committed search was be
gun for the olneys, who were miss
ing Today their bodies were found
n a woods near their home. each lying
n The same position on their backs,
with Que arm across the breast The
rockets IN their clothing had been
urned in. ide out
Wagon tracks near by indicated that
he men had been killed at some other
point and the bodies taken 70 the
wo- DIS.
| A clew to TIE murders was Sc
ured through Robert Wengatz, pro
lrietor of hotel at Howells, two
niles from where the crime was com
nitted. Wengatz says two strange
nen called at his place early today,
mt did not remain long. They drove
way att rapid rate One was lame.
IN efforts will be made 10 trace the
| strangers.
The fact that an attempt was made
10 Kill every person who was known
o have besn in the Olney house has
,aused the police and the entire neigh
iorhood to declare that there We're
lther motives than robbery for the
commission Of the crime and that
he rining of the Olney brothers peck
Ii wa@ only ruse to misleal pursn-
ars. All yet, however. no plausible the
Try for tRs murders has been adj
anced The four persons in the house
about dark yesterday, according 70
Lulu Ingerick. who left the place short.
before the tragedy. were Willis Of
icy. 62 years Fred Oiney, 81 years
I'D; Mrs. Ingerick the housekeepei
7 If the two brothers, and her small
laughter. Alice Lulu, who Is ~ years
Did. went to Middletown, returning II
ime for late supper. Finding tht
house empty the girl in fright sum
noned neighbors, who searched tht
Premises. Alice was found dead in the
cellar. her head beaten with an iron
aipe. Her mother was found in tn
larn, apparently beaten by the SANE
I, instrument, which was picked up o.
I The kitchen floor by the searching
party.
Willis Olney was widower an
Fred was a bachelor Mrs Ingerick
I who had separated from her husband
u lad been employed as nousekeeper a
Z the 94ney brothers place only abou
4 month. Her husband, Martin lng'
(" rick. lives at Wurtzboro, town nc
u far from Middletown
= In the house no traces of robber
i have yet been found The only a
IL ticles of value known to have bee
taken from the two brothers in III
i. sitting Of their pockets We're two 81
II yer watches Considerable CONNER
10 was excited here by the similarity
a,I position If the two bodies found in y
% woods, as each had the right ar
tic crossed over the breast in the san
"A position Fred Olney's body had ~
bullet wounds in the right side, al
IN odd thing about these wounds we
hat they were under the right arm,
=. such position that the arm mu
have been raised high before the sho
re were fired.
ch Willis Olney was shot through t
III right car