Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-10-21
Charles Marzyek, Exon
Wet, Accused Of Crime in
Kansas; Had Also Been in
Colorado Springs.
EVIDENCE is FOUND
CONNECTING CRIMES
Outside Dawson Home in
Monmouth Gas Pipe is
Found Bearing Name Of
Colorado Springs.

Ellsworth, Kas., Oct 49, Near
Geneseo, Kas., sheriff's posse is be.
lieved today to be close on the trail
of Charles Marzyek, sought in connec'
ton with the five Snowman murders,
A deputy sheriff sent to Geneseo by
Sheriff Rufus Bradshaw reported to-
day that man answering the descrip,
ton of Marzyek had been seen there
a few hours previously.
Sheriff Bradshaw and a deputy i'm.
mediately raced to Geneseo in an
automobile. The prosecutors office
here awaits report from the posse
and is prepared to send additional as
sistance to the officers in case they.
need It.
The suspect seen at Geneseo is said
by Prosecutor Samuel Bartlett to be
the same man who stopped at the
Baker hotel here and left some bloody
clothes on the night of the murder.
Officers from Ellsworth found that the
mai walked from here to Kanapolis
and then rode passenger train TO
Geneseo. He was then traced to a
rooming house in Geneseo.
New evidence today revealed for the
first time appears to link the Mon
mouth and Colorado Springs slaugh.
tiers with the Snowman tragedy. "A
day or two ago, just outside the house
in which the Dawson family was
killed in Monmouth was found a piece
of gas pipe bearing the inscription,
"Colo-Spr's, Sept 4, 1911." The Colo
RADIO Springs murders were commit
ted after this date. The lead pipe was
short, about such a weapon as thug
would carry in his pocket.
coroner's Verdict is Given.
Snowman, his wife and children
Snowman, his wife and three children
were slain with an ak in the, hands of
persons who afterwards registered at
the Baker hotel in this city and during
the night fed, leaving behind bundle
of clothing included a bloody shirt.
This was the finding of the coro-
ner's jury, announced today in the
case of the murders of the five mem
bers of the Snowman family discov-
cred last Monday.
The search for the ex-convict,
Charles Marzyek, whose description
is said to fit that of man who left
the bloody shirt in the hotel, contin-
ued today The handwriting of John
Smith, Junction City" placed on the
hotel register, is said to BE- identical
with that in letters rec<ived from
Chas. Marzeyk. The terror among the
Slav families who were 81 Any way
associated with Marzyek's raHtence to
prison for wheat stealing. had not
subsidized early today, although posses
searched the country for five miles.
in every direction from this city.
Was at Scene of Other Crimes. !.
That Marzyek, who is sought by the
county authorities in connection with
the murders of the five members of the
William Snowman family here on
Sunday night, had been in Colorado
Springs, where the six members of the
Wayne and Burnham families were
slain, and was acquainted in Mon
mouth, ILL.,, where three persons were
murdered recently, was the startling
statement made to the authorities by
Mrs. Minnie Vopat, Marcyek's d.
-yorced wife. All these fourteen VIC
Tins were killed with an AK.
Sam Snowman "a brother of VIM
Snowman, head of the murdered fam
ily has started at the head of a posse
On a search of the country. Marzyek
is Neas%Sed to be hidden in the neigh