Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-26
NICK JAskovlcH ADMITS KILL
ING ALEXANDER KosLAskY
! At MASON CITY.
CRIME RESULT or
QUARREL OVER MONEY
siaysr Alleges koslasIsy His Rsfussd
b Return 500 Advanced 20 Pay Fine
Assessed For .1-tlsssins - Shoots
kesiasky ~ Ne Sleeps - Jaskovieh
First to Report Murder.

confession ma00 TO ponce dHu Sou"s'
officers at o'clock last night, NICK
Jaskovich was arrested for the murder
Of Alexander Koslasky which occurred
at s o'clock yesterday morning. Jasko-
vich slept the night before in the room
next to the murdered man and tho
first clue to the murder was obtained
when Mrs. Koslasky said he was the
only man up and dressed, In the house.
just after the murder.
With bullet hole In the left side OF
his forehead just below the hair, Alex
ander Koslasky. an employee at the
Minneapolis and St Louis roundhouse'
was found dead In his bed by officers
who went to Investigate the case just
before 6 o'clock Sunday morning. a
call came to the police about 5:2o
o'clock, saying man had been killed
; In the house at the corner OF Hender-
son and futile streets. The ponce
sheriff. county attorney and coroner,
went 1T once to the scene and MADE q
thorough Investigation.
Arrest Twenty Seven Suspects.
As result Of the investigation Of the
officers, all Of the men in the Koslasky
rooming house, and the house OF
Stephen Kelley, another Russian room
ing house next door. were taken to
the court house and held for investi-
cation. All day yesterday the police
and county officers worked In an effort
to get from some Of the twenty seven
men arrested clue as to the person
WHO committed the crime.
Mrs. Koslasky, who claims she was In
bed with the man at the time he was
killed, told conflicting stories. At first
she said she did not hear the shot fred,
then she admitted hearing a noise, ana
finally she said she heard the shot and
saw q tramp leaving the open window
near the head Of the bed where tho
man slept.
Shot at Close Range.
Coroner Long removed the body OF
the dead man to the McAuley morgue
where an autopsywas held at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning. This showed the
bullet had taken q backward and down.
ward course from where It entered the
head. Powder marks. plainly visible
on tho wound, showed the shot had
been fred at close range. Officers ex-
perimented with putting revolver
thru the window to SEQ whether man
could be shot in that manner. The
head of the bed was Just to the north
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impossible 10 have shot tho man ac-
curately from that angle OF to nave
a..sosn - eaoaA enough 70 the had to leave
powder marks. say the officers. Tho
bullet taken from the mans head was
. 80 caliber bullet.
Paid Fine For kosIasl<y.
Jaskovich paid fine Of 800 for
Koslasky on June s, 1914. Koslasky
was convicted Of bootlegging. Tho
murderer had received. he said. but 80
OF the 500. Saturday night he asked
Koslasky for the rest Of the money
and he was told he had no receipt and
could not collect the money in any
way "Your money is lost" Koslasky
Is alleged to have said Saturday night.
whereupon Jaskovich replied II his
money was lost Koslasky was lost.
After his arrest, Jaskovich showed
the officers where he had buried the
gun with which the man was shot in
q pile Of manure near little grocery
store about q block from the house.
Jaskovich was the first man to noti-
~ the police OF the shooting yester-
day morning. The man claims the
murder was committed about o'clock
Sunday morning and the officers con-
slider they have made record time on
: the case In finding the murderer and
having his confession within fourteen
hours after the crime was committed.