The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-04-08
Find STICK THAT
IS SUPPOSED TO
HAVE DONE MURDER
Aberdeen Police Locate
Club Seen in Com
panion's S Hands.
NEW THEORY OUT
Papers on Parker's Body In
dictate He May Have Died
of Epilepsy.
NEW THEORY OUT

Aberdeen, S. D.-The stick which
Hurst saw one of the men with Ed
ward d. A. Parker, who was murder
ed here. carrying, was found this
morning in an alley, with blood
stains upon it.
Parkers mother. Mrs McGlynn,
residing at Fordham, New York
city, has wired regarding her son S
death
A bottle of medicine was found on
the dead mans person, and a docu-
ment indicating he had been dis
charged from a Minneapolis hospi-
tai leads the police to suspect that
he may have been an epileptic and
that he met his death on the railroad
track while suffereing from an epil-
etic attack. but the six men arrest
ed are still held and further clues
admitted being with Parker Monday
evening, has made no further state
ment.
Aberdeen, S. D.,-B. Condor, one of
a number OF men arrested yesterday
murder of Edward ID. A. Parker on
Monday night, late yesterday stated
that Parker was a newsboy of Min
neapolis, and that Condor and two
other men had been with Parker on
Monday evening, and the last he had
seen OF Parker was in a straw stack
west OF the city
b. Condor of Chinook, Mont, Ed
ward Ferguson of Lisbon. n D., John
Nezzi OF Minneapolis, Bob Simpson
of Oklahoma, M. ID. Stoddard OF Su-
perior, Wis, ard N. Dooley OF Chi
cago We're all picked up by the police
on suspicion of knowing something
about the murder of Parker, who
was found Tuesday morning lying
beside the Milwaukee railroad track
four miles from Aberdeen, murdered
Clyde Hurst son OF George w.
Hurst, superintendent of police,
walked for seven blocks on Monday
afternoon behind four men who are
Parker The Hurst boy was return
ing home from school. and he says
one Of the three men in the rear
carried stick about the size of a
broom handle and about four feet
long, and the others, after holding it
in their hands, said "it is heavy
enough" Parker he said, was walk
ing slightly ahead of the other three.
The lad identified the dead man as
the one who was walking ahead, and
identified Condor as one of the men
in the rear who tested the stick.
The body of a young man, lying
beside the railroad track about four
mile, west of Aberdeen, was discover
ed by passengers on a west bound
Milwaukee train. They notified the
conductor who wired the train dis
patcher's office here, and the coro-
ner and sheriff hurried to the scene,
where they found young man, APP
parently about 25 years of age, lying
dead beside the track. One arm had
been crushed by the train. A bruise
on the head indicated he had been
struck by some blunt instrument.
Tracks and disturbance of the ground
indicated he had been attacked on
the other side of the track from that
on which his body was lying, and
then dragged on the track. A train
had evidently thrown the body Oft
the rails. with the exception of the
crushed arm.
Letters found on the body indicat-
ed the dead mans name was Edward
d. A. Parker, and that his home was
in New York, though the last letter
written to him was addressed to Min
neapolis. Parker was fairly vel
dressed, smooth shaven and clean. He
was slender and rather tall. with
black hair that had recently beer
trimmed. His hands indicated thai
he had been working at manual labor
of some sort. Besides the letters
the only thing left in his clothes was
a prayer book, his pockets evidently
having been searched for any money
or valuables he may have carried