Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-13
SEVEN HELD FOR
DUNBAR MURDER
Andrew DuBurg, One Of Ac-
cused, Confesses Details of
Sunday Night Tragedy.
THREE REVOLVER SHOTS
Claimed That Two of Them Were
Fired by Frank Martens-Mem-
bers of Family Testify.

The seven boys implicated in the
death of Frank Dunbar were formally
charged with murder today by Coroner
]. F. Rose as result of the finding
of the jury which conducted the in
quest over the remains yesterday af-
ternoon at the police station in Mo
line. Warrants were sworn out and
the accused will be held to the grand
jury. The verdict of the coroner's
jury was as follows:
1--WE, the jury, sworn to inquire into
the death of Frank Dunbar find that
he came to his death as the result of
a bullet wound in the chest from a
32-calibre revolver. We, the jury, find
thae Andrew DuBurg, Frank Martens,
William Schafer, Jacob Schafer, Henry
Schafer, Prosper Deriks and John De-
Power were responsible, and we rec
ommend that they be held to the
grand jury
The jurors were Walter Griffin,
Frank Lundholm Gust Peterson, Oscar
Carlson, Charles w. Gleason and
Charlie u. Degen.
DuBurE COnfesses.
The principal evidence against the
seven young offenders was given by
Oscar Bisant, chief of police in Moline,
who stated that the DuBurg boy had
made a clean breast of the whole
trouble before himself, Coroner Rose
and States Attorney l. NJ. Magill. The
confession as told by the chief gave
the following facts: John DePover,
while walking through a pasture at
the Dunbar home. First street and
Nineteenth avenue, Moline. Saturday
night in the company of two girls, en-
tered into discussion of Frank Dunbar,
the dead boy, and the latter heard the
talk and accosted the party. They
had hot words and it ended up in the
Dunbar boy striking DePover and chas-
Ing him out of the pasture. The De-
Power boy swore vengeance and Sun
day afternoon he met at the Henry
Tanghe saloon on Forty-first street and
Fourteenth avenue in Rock Island with
the other boys who are now under ar
rest and secured their promise of as
sistance in getting Dunbar" After
they had imbibed quite freely to get
up their courage, they went to the Du-
Burg home and waited on the porch
until the latter ate his supper and
armed himself with a 32-calibre liver
Johnson.
Other Boys Armed.
The other boys. or at least a part of
them, were already armed and togeth |
er they started for the Dunbar home. |
Three of them, including DuBurg and |
Martens, went to the gate and called /
for Dutch to come out and rne others ,
of the party hid behind a hedge fence |
and laid in wait for the critical mo-
ment. When Frank came out of the
house and to the gate, they tried to
drag him through, but he broke away.
Some one in the party then yelled.
Shoot the ----." Martens
fired twice and someone also fired
once after which all the crowd took to
their heels down the road. When they
got together they all fired the remain
ing shots out~of their revolvers. Du-
Burg claims that he emptied his into
the ground.
Dunbar FamiIy's Story.
The members of the Dunbar family,
including Ruben Dunbar, Sr.. the faith
er, Ruben, Jr., a 21year-old son, Kitty
Dunbar. sister-in-law of the deceased,
and Harry Dunbar, a younger brother,