The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-11
MURDERER
 KILLS EIGHT
ENTIRE IOWA FAMILY KILLED WHILE ASLEEP AND NO CLUE
 TO THE SLAYER.
MILITIA GUARDING TIE HOUSE
Crime Committed in Heart of Res- ldence District and Murderer
 Makes Good His Escape
 5loodhounds Will be Tried.

Villisca, Ia., June l0The murder Sunday night of the entire family of Joseph Moore and two girl guests. eight persons in all is tonight baf fling the authorities, who have been unable to secure 2 trace of the mur- derer, who killed every person in the house and escaped. 1t is apparent he had key to the door of the home. because all doors and all but two wia- dows were found locked,
 A revised list of the victims foi- low:
 Joseph B. Moore his wife and four children, Herman, aged 1T; Katherine, aged 9 Boyd. aged 2, and Paul aged 6, Lena Stillings, aged l5; Ina Stiii- ings aged 9.
 The first intmation Of the crime came when clerk in the implement house of MT Moore went to Mr. Moore's home to find what delayed Moore in reaching his place of busi- ness today. Finding the doors locked, the window shades all down. and no one about. he notified the neighbors. and with assistance forced an sn- trance
 The dead, with one exception, were found in their beds, apparently sleeping. and until the wounds on their heads and the blood on tho pillows were discovered, the seach CTS could not believe anything was wrong in the house
 A bloody axe with hair and pieces of brain clingng to it, obviously the implement used in the wholesale mur- der, was later found in ars upstairs room.
 Mr. and Mrs Moore were in one he'd, as were two of the boys. The sister occupied a third and the young The bedding had nowhere been dis arranged
 A militia company is patrollng the section of the city near the Moore home until the bloodhounds have been put on tn etrail
 The bodies will not be removed until coroner's jury has examined them.
 News of the crime travelled fast and hundreds of country people came to the village today and tonight
 The murderer apparently went about his work deliberately. Dust upon the sills of two windows left unlocked shows he did not enter or leave that way
 After pulling down all the shades, thing which the Moores never did, the murderer hung dress skirts, which he secured from a closet, over each IUf the doors leading to the outside and also over unprotected windows | Only one of the bodies showed indi cations of struggle One of the Still 1 ings girls lay with one arm thrown out as though she had awakened and | tried to ward off the murderer's blow. A small cut on her arm seems to confirm this impression. All the oth- CT bodies lay in natural positions of si;;,iikes. The bed eegeri. gs had not been disarranged. 1 A lighted kerosene lamp was found on the floor in the middle of the room occupied by MT and Mrs. Moore. | The only clues to the slayer so Tar discovered are the bloody finger prints in different parts of the house
 All are being carefully preserved and an expert has been summoned t'4 take impressions of them.
 All outside doors were locked and all windows fastened except two i'll the room occupied by the Stiliings girls.
 Inquiry has convinced the author ities that no other visitor was at the Moore home last night up to the time the family retired
 The house stands among num- Iber Of reidences but none of the neighbors heard an outcry last night