Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-11
Charles Young, Recently
Convicted Of Robbery Ar
rested AS Vag and Allen
Is Held By Sheriff Knox.
IDENTIFIED AS
THE THIRD PARTY
Allen Points Out Young In
Police Court, Who Later
Tells Coroner He Was
With Party.

Upon the statement of John Allen,
who was arrested yesterday in con-
rection with the murder OF Thomas
McGrah last Tuesday night that third
party was with him and McGrah the
fateful night when he last saw Nc
Crab, Charles Young under sentence
of five years for robbery was arrested
last night. This morning he was iden-
titled by Allen in police court and was
later taken to the coroner's inquest
over the remains of McGrah in the
Sullivan mOrgue.
Other evidence that has been ac-
cumulated by the sheriff and local
police department against Young since
the finding of McGrah's mutilated body
in the race Monday afternoon led to
bis arrest. Sheriff Knox asked the
police department to keep a lookout
for Young with the result that Night
Captain Matt Mier arrested him about
10 o'clock last night far out on Rich
mond Ave-, in South Ottumwa. He was
placed in Jail over night and the
sheriff's office asked that he be vagged
until Allen could see him. This morn
ing in police court Allen was asked
by the sheriff to see If the man was
among the offenders who was with
him and McGrah Tuesday of last week.
Without hesitancy he pointed out
Charles Young and told Sheriff Knox
that Young was the man that had been
with him and McGrah. Another person
claims to have been introduced to
McGrah by Young in the Log Cabin
saloon the night the tragedy took
place.
McGrah Bought Drinks.
In his testimony before the coroner's
inquest this morning, Charles Young
stated in substance that he was in the
company of Allen and McGrah with
crowd of others in the Log Cabin sa-
loon on Monday or Tuesday afternoon
of last week and that McGrah had
bought him two drinks. He also said
that except for seeing McGrah later
in the afternoon, in the Beatty saloon
across the street from the Log Cabin,
he did not see him since, and was not
with McGrah that evening.
Charles Young was released on an
appeal bond but little over week ago,
having been convicted of robbery be-
before Judge Vermilion some two
weeks ago, when he was adjudged
guilty of robbing Walter McDaniels,
March 1S in the vicinity Of the old
ruffler works. He was given five
years term in Anamosa reformatory
and filed an appeal bond in the sum OF
$1,000 the day following to take the
case to the supreme court. He was
to have been taken to the reformatory
with Claude De Barr who drew ten
year sentence.
Coroner's Verdict.
Following is the verdict of the coro-
ner's Jury at the inquest held this
"We, the jury, find that Thomas Nc
Crab came to his death on the night
Of May 1, 1911, and that his death was
the result of foul play and was directly
due to wounds inflicted upon his face
and throat by knife or by drowning.
Or both being factors in his death, and
that the wounds were inflicted by a
party or parties unknown to this jury.
"W. e. Jones.
u. C. Poulton.
&C. K. Foote.''
Knox Takes Allen.
Sheriff w. e. Knox accompanied by
John (Simmie) Allen, the last man
known to have been with Thomas Nc
Crab before the latter's mutilated re-
mains were taken from the race near
the union depot, came to Ottumwa yes
terday afternoon from Chillicothe
where Allen was arrested apparently
awaiting the coming Of the county Of
ficer who made the arrest in front OF
the Peterson store In Chillicothe about
2:30 o'clock.
II know l am in bad" were the
words of Allen to the officer as he was
being brought to Ottumwa. "But the
last I saw of Tommy was when both
Of us were in the water Tuesday night.
did not know what became of him
for we were both drunk and believe
we were kicked in"
When alighting from the train,
Sheriff Knox and the prisoner walked
over toward the race and the latter
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