Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-07-01
MENTAL DEFECTIVE
SHOOTS Stranger
elAsk RALEIGH, OF GRiNNELL,
MILLS INDIANA MAN WITHOUT
PRovocATloN.
bHooTs HIM THRU HEART
WHILE SITTING IN DEPOT
Raleigh Queer Character Who Has
Been Subject to Crazy sPelIs-sup-
psssd to Have Imagined Stranger
VA. White siaver-vietin Of Wrath
Supposed to Be- William Rodgers.
Special to T.mes-Rspubican.


Grinnell, July 1-About ESQ yesser-
lay afternoon Frank Raleigh OF TINS
city. passed into the union station at
the south door, walked over 10 the
fer sitting there, now I've got YOU
and fred a revolver shot into the
strangers breast just above his heart.
The wounded man sprang UP and ran
ont of the south door of the station
and turned west but fell ON the Rock
Island paving just in front OF the BRICK
hotel and expired.
when he left the station Raleigh was
following him with pistol in hand
Several witnesses to the deed we're III
the station when the shot was fired
Joe Carter seized Raieigh as ne passea
out Of the door but when the revolver
was pressed against his stomach ne
loosened his hold and Raleigh escaped
and is reported TO nave 5oIv
along the line of the VI. & St L. road
The officers were notified and set out
in pursuit.
The stranger was taken into the Of
flee Of the brick hotel and Coroner
Buck was called. After an sXaInina-
ton he gave permission for the re-
moval of the body to the j. w Harp
ster Undertaking rooms. A coroner
Jury was impaneled last evening at the
superior court room. composed O
Judge ]. p Lyman. E. B. Brande. and
Iohn Manly. Jr. No new facts were
elected
Dead Man Stranger.
The dead man Is supposed TO be VIII
liam Rodgers. of Terre Haute. Ind, as
such a man has been here for two or
three days ostensibly looking for his
wife, who had strayed away while he.
as he told the story, was at work on g.
farm in Kansas. He said he left her
IN Keokuk but she had left there and
he had traced her to Grinnen but found
no trace Of her here. He was heavy
set man Of about IS or 80 years. five
feet. eight or nine inches. dark com
plexion, dark hair. soft hands tina
did not indicate acquaintance with
hard labor, and he was much better
dressed than the ordinary tramp His
hat had a Spencer Iowa, mark in It
Careful inquiry at the hotels and room
ing houses failed to fnd where he had
registered or taken bed.
Raleigh Mentally Defective.
frank Raleigh has been a resident Of
this city for several years. He was
taken in and cared for when he first
came here by Mrs. Cappron o, the
Hotel Monroe and has been employed
about the hotel most of the time he has
been here. He has attracted great
deal Of attention and caused eonsid-
cradle fear among the tinid thru his
unfortunate at1iction by what seemed
TO be . form Of ATS. When attacked
by one Of these ne would act like a
mad screaming. striking. biting
and working at whatever he might be
engaged in with denon-like energy.
But he has been perfectly harmless all
these years and the spell upon him was
always quickly broken when any one
spoke to him. Recently. it is told here.
he has seemed to be obsessed with the
idea that ne must help IN Kidding the
earth Of the white sIavers' and there
is reason to think that this tragedy is
the result of his belief that this stran-
ger was engaged in that business and
was about to take some one from here.
1t IL reported that he went to the Rock
island ticket agent. Dave Yates. some
time before he did the shooting and
asked him II this stranger had bought
ticket and whether he was a white
SLAYER" and also asked the ticket
agent TO cell Up the county attorney
Raleigh Captured
A. L. Beason. Grinner. Rural Route
No. /. was sitting very near the
stranger when the fatal shot was fred
and on seat at RICH angles TO the
parties. Mrs. Stoltenberg Of Station A
Marshailtown. was also very close tc
them.
Raleigh was arrested last evenina
near Newburg and brought TO this
city.