The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-12
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The funeral is to be held at 3
o'clock in a public park. 1t is ex-
pected the attendance will be from
5000 to 10000.
| Third print" Expert There.
A third finger print expert arrived
here today. 1t is said he will take i'm
pressions of the finger tips of the
dead, the suggestion having been
made that some of the prints found
in different parts of the house might
have been made by one of the VIC
Tins. In view of all the known cir
cumstances, this theory receives no
credence, but the authorities wish to
| be certain.
1t is said an apparently insane man
was arrested at Gravity, about Is
miles south of here, yesterday. Lit
\ tie Importance is attached to this,
however, as there was nothing ex-
| cept his mental condition to throw
suspicion on the man.
He Waded Creek Five Miles.
The man believed to have slain a
| family of six and two girl visitors
here Sunday night waded five miles
| in Nodaway creek to throw blood
hounds off the trail.
This was indicated when the blood
hounds followed the trail of the slay-
er from the victims home, twice, to
the east bank of Nodaway creek, at
a point nine miles southwest of here.
There footprints. and bloody hand
kerchief were found.
The sheriff and his posse of almost
500 deputies and citizens did not
give up the search, but taking the
dogs across the creek, proceeded five
miles up stream and there took up
the trail again.
from the bodies of the victims in the
fire department house Coroner Whit
more and his jury began the inquiry.
That the Moores and Stillinger girls
were the victims of the FAX man"
whose dastardly crimes have extend
ed into a dozen states, is the popular
verdict.
Feared Two More May Die.
Mrs. Joseph Stillinger, mother of
the murdered girls, in delicate health
when the crime was committed. is in
a critical condition, and it is feared
she may not recover. $685.
C. c. Moore, 83 years old, father of
the murdered man, also is in critical
condition.
LIE Roy Van Glider, sr, a relative
of the Moores, upon whom suspicion
has been thrown, is in Newmarket, |
Ia, the authorities here say, and his |
arrest probably will take place be- |
fore night. He was seen here Satur- |
day. The octuple murder occurred !
Sunday night in the Moore home. |
Claire Marsh is under arrest at Nod |
away He admits he was drinking |
with LIE Roy Glider, jr-, Saturday |
but denies he knows anything about |
the crime. |
Villisca, with a population of about |
5000, in a thickly inhabited country |
district, took on the appearance of |
gala day this morning. rather than |
that of mourning which usually fol- |
lows such a sinister crime. The streets |
are packed with automobiles, wagons |
and carriages of every description, |
and morbid spectators.
SIayer's Watch Chain Broken.
On an oil lamp chimney in the room /
which the Stillinger girls occupied,
was found the bloody imprint of a |
hand. And on a sideboard in another
room, the perfect prints of the slayer's
amined closely. as will the finger prints
on the axe with which the murderer
beat out the lives of his victims.
Alongside the bed in which the Still,
niger girls were sleeping was found |
part of a watch or key chain. The |
links al each end were pulled open and
the position in which the body of
Edith Stillinger was lying when found,
that she awakened before the
murderer struck her, and in attempt
ing to grapple with him. seized the
chain in her hand, pulling it apart. Her
hand was tightly clinched in death.
This apparently was the only resistance
the murderer met.
Drag River for Slayer.
The authorities began to drag the
Nodaway river near this place where
the bloodhounds three times yester-
day lost the trail they had followed
from the scene of the octuple- murder.
The theory is that the murderer may
have been drowned either by his own
intent after the commission of the
crime or by accident in attempting to
cover his trail by wading in the water.
There are many deep holes in the riv-
er near here where man unable to
inn icrE1f ell a