Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-21

| Victims of jealous lover, mothei
is dead murdered in cold blood, {
young farmer lies in the Deaconess
hospital dangerously wounded witt
three bullet holes thru his body, and
young boy was beaten but not seriously
hurt. The three were the targets of q
revolving murder and attempted MUIR
| der committed at the home of Wendell
| P. Foote, half mile south of the viii
| lage of Dillon, about II o'clock Thurs
| day night
The murdered woman is Mrs. Ma
tilda c. Steward aged S. and blind
| The wounded man is Wendell P
Foote, aged 80.
The latter's nephew. Carl Foote. aged
T., living west of state Center. was
| beaten over the head with the revolver
The sheriff and police officers are
securing the country in search Of Rob
ert James Williams, aged IS, Mis-
sourian. against whom d charge OF
murder has been filed. Williams es-
| caped after the shooting and no clue a.
to his wherea bouts had been found UP
to noon a revolver, SS-caliber wea
! pom, Del1eEeQ 10 nave Deen tHe wed
pom used. was found.
Was Rejected Lover.
The object of Williams love and the
cause Of his jealousy, Miss Ruby stew
ard. aged %. housekeeper for Foote,
who is believed by the officers to have
| been also sought by Williams in the
murderous attack, escaped unhurt, be-
| cause her mother shielded her with her
own body, which the bullet, perhaps
| intended for the daughter, pierced. A
third member Of the household, E. E.
Foote, Of Tama, father of Wendell, also
escaped. +.
Mrs. Steward died from her wound
at about 3 o'clock this morning. She
was shot thru the chest, the ball pass
ing entirely thru the body. coming out
between the shoulders.
Foote Badly Wounded.
Foote was shot three times, thru the
left shoulder in the right side and
thru the neck. The latter wound is the
most serious, as the ball severed the
| traches The ball into the shoulder did
| not pass thru te shoulder and an x
ray photograph, which will be taken,
| will show where il is lodged. The wound
| in the side was slanting one, and ex-
ternal to the ribs. The ball passed
| upward and came out near the shout
| der.
DR.. z. NJ. Mills and Dr.. R. E. Key
ser, of this city, were called to care for
| the wounded man, and cached the
| Foote home within half an hour after
| the shooting. Foote'S wounds were
| dressed, and he was brought to the
| hospital. ri
DR.. Keyser said today that, altho
| dangerously wounded. he believed
| Foote would recove r in the event that
no infection sets up in the wounds. and
particularly the traches. Should in
lection result in the traches, DR.. Key
ser said that Foote will die.
Attacks in the Dark.
The attack was made in the dark
and the only warning was the first shot
that wounded Wendell Foote. He was
shot as he lay on the floor in the sit
ing room of the house. BY his side was
! his nephew, Carl Foote. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry E. Foote, four miles west
of State Center.
The first shot awakened Ruby Stew
ard and her mother. who were sleep
ing together in the second room north
of the parlor A second shot followed
| the first quickly, again wounding Wen
dell. Alarmed by the shots Mrs. Stew
ard and her daughter got up, the latter
| quickly Ruby ran thru the adjoining
room to the doorway into the sitting
room.
Going back quickly to her room for a
light she secured an electric flash lamp
to return with it. On the way to the
sitting room Mrs. Steward showed her
daughter behind her and entered the
sitting room doorway in advance. Her
| daughter flashed the light into the
room and the beam fell on the muir
derer, whom Miss Steward declared she
| recognized as Williams. He fired again
point blank. The bullet struck Mrs.
Steward. and she staggered, with her
daughters help, back to the bed.
Wounded Man Fights.
Altho already wounded twice. Foote
staggered to his feet to give battle.
Selling a chair he hurled it across the
room at the dim figure. The hurtling
missile missed its mark and crashed
over an unlighted lamp. The wounded
mother and terror stricken daughter in
the bed room heard fourth shot, and
Foote fell to the floor.
In the brief space of time between
the first two shots and the appearance
of mother and daughter in the doorway
the murderer leaped upon Carl Foote
and beat him over the head with the
revolver. Three times he struck him,
once over the left ear, and again far
Their back on the left side and on the
back Of the head. The wounds are
only bad bruises, including minor
scalp wound.
Leaving the house by the way he
came, thru the kitchen and unlocked
kitchen door, Williams hastened away.
Carl Foote saw the figure of the man
run thru the door yard and into the
road, where he turned north toward
Dillon. ~.
Girl Disnisses Williams.
4 jealousy that grew out of rage at
| being dismissed and at having his en-
easement broken. famed to fury per-
haps by knowledge or suspicion that
Ruby and Wendell Foote were in love
and were planning to be married, is
! the motive that is drawn from the girl