The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-22

result Of poker game Saturday night
in which Oda Hubbell won all the
money, Hubbell, his wife and two chill
dren, Jessie, aged 6, and Walton, aged
were murdered Sunday night at
their home. two and half miles east
Of Barnard, small town eighteen
miles southeast of Maryyille, and the
murderer attempted to conceal the
crime by setting fire to the house.
Hezekiah Rasco, arrested In connec-
tion with the crime, was taken secret
to the Buchanan county jail In S..
Joseph, to prevent mob violence,
which was threatened. Rasco when
arrested in corn field at his home
near Barnard, denied any knowledge
Of the tragedy. Robbery is supposed
to have been the motive
The first that was known of the
tragedy was when James Lett,
neighbor farmer. was returning home
from Barnard where he had been at
tending church, discovered the house
to be on fire.,
Farmer Discovers Tragedy.
He made an effort to discover II
the members of. the family were in
the house, but did not succeed in get
ting reply to his calling. Mr.. Lett
went around the house to try door.
and there he discovered great pool
Of blood on the ground. He called
help and with another man threw a
few bticketfuls of water into the house
and the smoke and flames lifting for
an instant. disclosed the body of Hub
bell lying near the kitchen door and
that of Mrs. Hubbell lying at the
other end of the room, neuf tele
phone. 1t was not until the searchers
had been able to brush away the
debris to some extent that it was
known positively that the two chill
dren had also been victims of the
tragedy.
The house was burned to the grount
and the bodies OF the two children
We're almost entirely consumed, there
remaining only enough of the forms
to tell that they had been victims Q
the same terrible fate, that had beel
the lot of the parents. The bodies o
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubbell were unrecoe
nizable masses, there remaining onl
the trunks and a part of the skulls u
tell the story.
The sheriff received word OF tn
tragedy during the night and wire
to the sheriff at Beatrice, Neb., I
come with his pair of trained blooe
hounds for the purpose of tracing tn
murderer. Deputies were sent to IN
scene and began an investigation 9
the surroundings and the circumstal
tial evidence that might lead to cle'
to the guilty person
Hubbell Won $500 at Poker.
The story of the Saturday nigf
poker game and its results had gon
abroad. Rasco played in the gam
and was heavy loser. Hubbell
known to have had over 5000 on a
person Sunday, which he had won
the game Saturday night.
Deputy Sheriff Evans went TO q
home OF Rasco's parents, north
Guilford. and inquired for the your
man. The father said his son ma
been absent the night before and th'
he had left the house shore TIN
before the arrival Of the deputy al
That he did not know what had D
come of him. Evans instituted
search and located Rasco in a cor
held Rasco did not offer any resis
ance to the arrest and stodtly dem'
any knowledge of the killing. He y"
brought to Maryville and placed
the county jail
The Nebraska sheriff arrived at BIZ
hard at noon with his bloodhoune
and, in company with Sheriff w.
Iilson and Deputies Charles Parcn
and Art Lee, went to the scene OF J,
murder.
Dogs Find Blood-stained Clothes.
The bloodhounds had little, diificul
IN picking up the scent and follow
to Rasco's home, distance
about FIVE miles from the Hubp
nome. The dogs rushed into '
house and UP the stairs to the roc