Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-25
PROBABLE THAT COMPANION or
DEAD MURDERER ALSO LOST
LIFE IN RIVER.
NO TRACE so FAR FOUND
OF SECOND BUTCHER SLAYER
Trail Followed by Bioodhounds indi.
eatss Thers May Have Been Three
Men Concerned in crims-Prebabiy
Will Never 30 Apprshend sd-othsr
News Of the STATE.

Missouri Valley, Aug. 25.-With the
Identification of the body found in the
Missouri river near Florence Sunday
by some boys as that Of one of the
murderers Of Night Marshal George
Butcher at Missouri Valley last We'd
| nesday afternoon. there has arisen the
question as to what has become of
the other man.
Two men, according to all accounts,
were concerned In the shooting of Mar
shall Butcher. and only one Of them has
been accounted for. Was the other also
drowned in the Missouri in his desper-
ate effort to escape the avenging mob
at Mondamin Friday night?
The two men who fought the off,
GERS and their posse, travelling general
ly by foot, fighting by day and stealth
lily creeping from point to point by
! night, with no food except what could
be gnawed from the cobs In the corn
field they passed thru. were in no con-
dition at the end of their three days
! fight to attempt the perilous attempt
to swim the Missouri river.
Even tho they were experienced IN
the water, they had exhausted them
selves fighting and walking. and it is
little wonder to those who followed
their flight that one Of them met retri-
button in the waters that swept but a
few miles from the scene Of their brutal
crime.
II the other man who was cornered
on the sandbar near Mondamin took to
the water. no trace has yet been found
Of him. either dead or alive. Two pair
Of shoes were found by the officers on
the sandbar, indicating that both men
took to the water at the same time.
Notwithstanding this seemingly con-
elusive evidence Of the manner Of their
escape, thorough search Of the entire
neighborhood was made by a crowd OF
several hundred men from Missouri
the slightest trace Of either man could
be found.
1t is believed by the men at Missouri
Valley. and elsewhere, who have fol-
lowed closely the events that crowded
so closely after one another In the muir
der Of Butcher. that the two men who
stood off the posse Of hundreds of men
in the vicinity Of Mondamin both met
the same fate.
Both Entered Watsr.
There seems little question but that
both men entered the water, from all
the circums stances, and so thoroughly
was interest in the case aroused on
both sides of the Missouri river, that
it would have been promptly reported
had any man with torn clothes and
with no shoes at all. evidently fresh
from a bath in the water, landed at any
point on either side between Mondan1in
and Council Bluffs. No such report has
been received from any point, however.
Meanwhile there is the further ques-
ton as to what became Of the man who
wkas trailed by bloodhounds Thursday
morning, Immediately following the
murder, from Missouri Valley to the
Omaha car line at Twenty-ninth street
and Avenue A. in Council Bluffs.
The trail that was followed by the
dogs was not that Of an ordinary Pc
destrian in a hurry to escape from the
scene of crime to a large city. Place
after place during the long trail, the
dogs diverged from the road into an
adjacent cornfield, where the fugitive
had apparently gone to avoid meeting
q team or an automobile.
The man was seen. too, in one Of
these divergences. AS he started to
cross the Illinois Central bridge in
Council Bluffs, he suddenly stopped at
a point where it was possible to see
two uniformed policemen at the fur
Their side of the bridge, and then dived
into the underbrush leading down the
river bank. This action was seen short
ly before o'clock the morning after
the crime by the bridgetender at the
Illinois Central bridge.
The dogs followed his trail to this
point and it seems only reasonable to
assume that they were following his
lodging, diverging trail all the way
from Missouri Valley.
Were Then Three Men?
This trail raises the question if there
cerned in the crime, instead of two,
and that one escaped in front OF the
dogs to Council Bluffs and Omaha.
while the other two men were driven
into the river at Mondamin.
The rumor was current at Missouri
Valley the night Of the commission Of
the crime that three men had been
concerned, but the hoboes who were
arrested witnesses asserted there
were but two. The officers in charge Of
the search said there were but two and
the search turnout was made on the
basis Of there being but two mon con-
cerned. In fact, not the slightest foun-
dalton could be found for the original
rumor Of three men and 1t was early
discarded as an unfounded and UNI
based canard.
II there was third concerned In
the murder, pal Of the two driven
into the river at Mondamin. who made
his escape ahead of the bloodhounds
into Council Bluffs and Omaha, there
seems little reason to expect that he
will ever be apprehended. There is no
direct clue whatever, and all the Of
hcers have to 60 on is the description
of the men.
The officers arc not sleeping on the
case, however. despite the general be-
lief that 1t is all ended. and every clue,
no matter how little promise 1t may
contain, is carefully followed up. The
matter OF the description of the men
as furnished by the hoboes. is being
used in the effort to secure some trace
Of the men who are wanted.
Bate Killed In Runaway.
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