The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-11
Crime Puzzles Police of Iowa City-Murderer
 Used an AK
THE ASSASSIN HAD
 KEY TO THE HOUSE
Bedding Not Disarranged and No Signs of a Struggle-Crime Not Discovered Until Yesterday
 Morning

Villisea, Ia., June 10.-The murder Sun cay night of the entire family of Joseph Moore, and two girl guests, eight persons in all, is tonight baffling the authorities who have been unable to secure trace of the murderer, who killed every person in the house and escaped. It is ap- parent he had key to a door of the home. because all doors and all but two windows were found locked.
 A revised list of the victims follows:
 Joseph B. Moore, his wife, and their four children. Herman, aged Il; Kath- erine. aged g; Boyd aged !. and Paul, aged 6 years Lena sulings, aged 15; Ina Stillings aged g.
 The first intimation of the crime came when a clerk in the implement house of MT. Moore went to MT. Moore's home to find what delayed Moore in reaching his place of business today. Finding the house locked the window shades all down, and no one about. he notified the neigh hors, and with assistance forced an en- trace.
 The dead, with one exception, were found in their beds apparently sleeping, and until the wounds on their heads and the blood on the pillows were diseov- cred, the searchers could not believe any thing was wrong in the house. A bloody an, with hair and pieces of brain cling ing to it. obviously the implement used in, the wholesale murder, was later found in an upstairs room.
 Mir and Mrs. Moore were in one bed and in another were two of the boys. The sister occupied a third, and he youngest boy was alone in small bed. The bedding had nowhere been disar- ranged
 militia company is patrolling the sec- ton of the city near the Moore home un- til bloodhounds have been put upon the trail The bodies win not be removed urtil a eoroner's jury has examined them.
 News of the crime travelled fast, and hundreds of country people came to the village today.
 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 blinds. thing which the Moores never did, .he murderer hung dress skirts, which he se- cured from closet, over each of the doors leading to the outside, and also over un- protected windows.
 Bloodhounds arrived here tonight and soon found a scent which took them over circuitous route to the edge of the town and thence to the banks of the Nodaway river.
 Entering a deep woods near the river the hounds led their followers over sev- eral miles of rough timber land in the Nodaway bottoms.
 After an hour the hounds returaed to the river, where those following the dogs found fresh footprints in the saft muddy bank and leading to the river. The hounds were taken across the river but were unable to find any trace of the fug- tive on the other side. At midnight the posse returned to town and will resume the man-hunt in the morning
 The bodies of the eight murdered per- sens were viewed late tonight by a cor oner's jury and were removed to the city hall to be prepared for burial. A detail of militia guarded the Moore home and city hall all night.f