Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-30
BLOOD HOUNDS USED TO HUNT
MURDERER OF CHARLES
MuRRoW.
FOLLOW TRAIL TO SHACK
OF TWO BARLOW BROTHERS
Circumstances Seem to Strengthen
Suspicious Against Parties Under
Arrest-TeIl Conflicting Stories Re-
sardins Actions on Night Of Murder
Other Iowa News.

Des Moines. Sept. 3O.-After twenty
hours search for the 1nurderers of
Charles Murrow, Sheriff Ness and City
Detective Sims left off work at mid
night without adding to the list of sus-
poets, which now includes William and
Charles Barlow, the two men arrested
late yesterday. -
Bloodhounds belonging to City Mar
shall Devall of Atlantic, were used
thruout the afternoon in an effort to
secure trail of the murderers, but
much time was lost in following false
trails. Finally, late in the afternoon,
they took trail south from the Muir
row farm and brought up at the shanty
where the Barlows live. Again they
wore taken over the same path and a
second time they led the officers to the
Barlow home.
Suspicion turned on William and
Charles Barlow, two brothers who live
with their father in a shanty near
| HASTE, mile south of the Murrow
farm 1t was learned that Will Barlow
went to the Murrow farm on Tuesday
to collect so due his brother, for work
| performed last week. Ben Murrow met
him near the house and offered to pay
him, but he insisted upon seeing
CHARLES Murrow, saying he had bust
ness with him. He found the man
several hundred yards from the house
and they returned together. Murrow
went into the house and obtained the
money with which to pay Barlow and
the latter left Afterward, when Ben
Murrow asked his brother what Bar
lows business was he was told that
he preached no subject but the matter
of the 81 due the younger Barlow.
Barlow's Stories Conflict.
Tuesday evening the Barlows and
their father had trouble at their shack
The brothers were drinking according
to the story Of neighbors. After they
were arrested they told the officers
conflicting stories about their actions
on Tuesday night. Both say that they
spent the night at their home, and
their father corroborates this claim.
The three differ however, as to the
time the boys reached home and went
to bed in the evening. The theory that
Will Barlow had insisted upon seeing
Charles Murrow rather than accept the
money from Ben led the officers to be-
lieve that he took this plan to learn
where the money was kept in the Muir
row house.
The general reputation of the Barlow
brothers is said by the officers to be
bad and they were arrested in order
that an investigation may be made,
Later In the day, while the hounds
were following battling trails about the
countryside, the searchers came upon q
pair of tracks thru hog lot heading
south. in the direction that would be
taken in going from the Murrow home
to the Barlow shack. The dogs were
worked on the trail twice during the
evening and followed it to the Barlow
cabin. Detective Sims holds that these
tracks resemble those that would be
made by, the tennis shoes worn by the
Barlows when they were arrested. The
the prisoners, the few dim footprints
on the way from the Murrow farm tc
the Barlow shanty and the suspicious
of the officers because of the action o.
the Barlow brothers on Tuesday, are
given the searchers to aid them ir
their efforts
Talk of lynching was rife in the
neighborhood of the Murrow farm yes
terday. Men who gathered from the
surrounding farms stood in little
groups and discussed in hushed tones
the circumstances of the murder. Time
: and time again threats We're made tina
II the murderer is found he will bs
lynched. Charles Murrow was popular
among the neighboring farmers.