Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-22
FAMILY OF FOUR MURDERED
0ds Hubbel, Wife and Two Children
of Barnard, Mo-, Killed.
BODIES FOUND IN BURNING HOUSE
Attempt to Hide Crime by setting
Fire to Residence--EH-COnvi is
Held on Suspicion, ms Feeling
Runs High AEninst Him,

MARYVILLE, Mo. Nov 21.-Oda Hub
bell. a farmer near Barnard, Mo, and his
wife and two chiluren were shot and killed
at their home last night by an unknown
person who set fire to their house 10 con-
ceRl the crime.
Hubbell and his wife was each 90 years
Of age and the children killed were Josie,
a girl and welton. q boy. aged and T.
respectively. This constituted the entire
family.
Early last nightlneighbors heard shots at
the Hubbell home. but no one made an
effort to investigate the cause. At midnight
it as discoveries that the Hubbell house
was burning. hd all the people in the
neishe aphogd % assist in extin-,
guishing the flan6as When this was ae-
complished the sscharred remains Of the two
children wers found in bed in their room,
where It was evident they had been killed
while sleeping. Hubbell's body was found
lying on the floor of another room and his
wife's body in her bed where she probably
had been shot without warming
It is believed that Hubbell had a struggle
with the murderer A pool OF blood out
side the house indicated that he had been
shot there and his body dragged inside
sitter he was killed.
One Suspect Arrested.
There is no clue to the identity Of the
murderer, although one neighbor recalled
having heard Hubbell say that a gambler
from whom he had won money had threat
ened him.
Hezekiah Rosco Of Barnard was placed
under arrest today in connection with
the crime The evidence against Rosco
Is purely circumstantial 1t is asserted
money from him in a card game.
The bodies of the victims were burned
so badly that very little evidence can be
secured from them 1t is plain that they
were shot, but it is impossible to deter
mine the caliber of the revolver used by
the murderer.
Officers of the county are making a dill
gent search for the murderer but they are
as yet completely baffled, having prac-
tically no evidence upon which to base a
clue.
Although Rosco was brought to the jail
here the officers said this afternoon that
he probably would be taken elsewhere, as
the people OF the county are so thoroughly
aroused over the murder that they do not
deem It safe 10 have the prisoners where
abouts known until the excitement has died
down
The murderer had poured great quantities
OF coal oil over the bodies Of his victims and
when neighbors arrived they found the
bodies burning more fieTcely than any Of
the materials In the house.
ROsOO an Ex-COnviet.
ST. JOSEPH. Nov A-Ezra Roscoe, in jail
at Maryville, suspected Of the Hubben fam
fly murder, Is about 80 years old and was
sent TO the penitentiary fourteen years ago
for numbering farmers wife near Arcoe,
after attempting to assault her. He served
ten years. He refuses to make a statement
Young Rosco went to the home OF the
Baumleys. who lived near his fathers
farm, while the womAns husband was alb
sent
After making insulting proposals he wa
ordered out Of the house. He went int
the yard and hurled a stone through Z
window, striking Mrs. Baumley. who wa
carrying her yeaT-old baby, in the face
She ran upstairs and barFicaded the doc
with q stove Rosco followed and bat
tered in the door. Then he picked up tn
hearth Of the stove and crushed tn
woman's skull. When her husband re
, turned. several hours later, he found he
J dead. but the baby was uninjured.
The murder was committed early IN tn
afternoon and suspicion pointed so strong
TO RoscO that he was arrested at his hom
/ before night For safekeeping he wa
) brought to the 81. Joseph jail.
The youth was tried at Maryville an
was convicted OF murder In the second de
) gree and sentenced for ten years II
learned the shoemaker's trade in priso
! and has worked In St, Joseph and Kansa
, City factories since his release. He re
turned 10 ArkOe a year ago and has bee