Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-15
ROSHET CATER SHOT WHILE HE
SLEEPS At GREEN MOUNTAIN
THURSDAY NIGHT.
MEHMET BRAEN, A TURK,
IS HELD FOR MURDER
Before His Death Gator Accuses 6raen
Of Shooting Him-Braen Disappears
and Is Arrested at Rsinheck by s. e.
Hoffer, Freight Conductor, Few
Hours Later.


car in the Chicago Great Western
right Of way, near the Green Noun
tain sta ton Thursday night, Roshet
Cater, aged 80, Turkish railway la
borer. was murdered by being shot.
Mehmet Braen, a Turkish laborer of
the same gang, was arrested on d
north bound Chicago Great Western
train near Reinbeck about midnight,
and is being held for the murder Be
fore Cater died, an hour later, he said
Braen had shot him.
Braen disappeared Immediately after
the shooting, and while Sheriff Edgar,
Desk Sergeant Maurice Cummings the
Turkish laborers of the camp and
Green Mountain people were searching
for Braen, he caught the freight that
was pulling thru town.
Result Of Old Feud.
The murder was the climax Of a
trouble the two Turks had had in Chi
cago five or six weeks ago. Members
of the gang of laborerS knew that an
old feud between Cater and Braen was
brewing, and as soon as the shooting
occurred the excited foreigners seemed
to know whom to suspect. Braen, No.
I OF the gang, was missing, and the
wounded man was accusing him Of
being his assailant.
Empties Revolver Into Sleeper.
Because of the heat Of the bunk car
Cater choose to sleep in the open. close
to the car that was standing near the
station building. It is presumed that,
as hes lept Braen crept upon him,
and emptied a 3S-calfber revolver in
the direction Of the sleeping man.
Three Of the five bullets struck Cater
and the other two inflicted shallow
flesh wounds. One penetrated the right
shoulder, inflicting a flesh wound. A
second bullet enter the breast an inch
and a quarter above the left nipple,
and the third buried itself in the abb
DOMAIN. Either the breast or abdomen
wound would probably have been fatal.
A wound. probably caused by bullet
that grazed the skin. was found on the
left leg. A similar wound was inflicted
on the right fore arm. Cater was
conscious long enough to tell Ken
mel Essa, the Interpreter Of the gang.
the name of the man alleged to have
committed the crime.
Turks. who ran back and forth about
the station screaming and shouting,
and creating a tremendous Juror. s
The wound man was carried to the
bunk car, and DIR. J. F. Strain was
! called. He did what he could for the
dying man.
Officers Chase Train.
Sheriff Edgar and Sergeant Cum
| mings reached Green Mountain a
little after 10 o'clock. Members Of the
laboring gang told them Braen had
| been seen running up the railroad
track and that he disappeared in a
corn field along the right way.
While Sheriff Edgar was getting in
communication with Gladbrook, Rein
| beck and other nearby towns, a freight
train pulled in from the south.
AS it passed slowly thru the town
! the Turks set up a loud shouting, indi-
eating that they had seen Braen. After
asking the telegraph operator al Green
Mountain to have the freight stopped
at Gladbrook the officers gave chase in
an automobile.
They searched the train at Glad
brook, but did not find Braen.
Conductor Arrests Turk.
It is now supposed that Braen was
on the train, but when it stopped al
| Gladbrook he got off, and when i,
pulled out of the town he got on again
The trainmen were asked to watch fol-
| him.
When the freight stopped in the
yards at Reinbeck, S. E. Hoffer, OF
Des Moines, searched the train again
He found Braen hiding in car. placed
him under arrest, and later turned hin
over to the marshal at Reinbeck. Ol
Braen was found can empty revolver
that loked as tho it had been fired yer!
recently, and a quantity Of cartridges
iBraen is said to have told the marsha
he was from Green Mountain.
Bring Prisoner to City.
Sheriff Edgar was notified Of thu
arrest shortly after daylight. He ant
Deputy Sheriff Goodale left for Rein
beck in an automobile at 9 o'clock t.
get Braen.
Caters body was brought to thi!
city and taken to the Simpkins & Este
parlors, there it will be held until afte
the inquest, which is to be held there b.
Coroner Boucher at II o'clock Saturda.
morning.
Nothing Is known Of Caters famil.
or relatives Braen is % years old.
VALUABLE WATCH STOLEN.