Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-14
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Is NOW SOLVED
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! evidence that the assassin was 4
maniac or man with brain dis.
torted by drugs
| In each case the victims literally
were hacked to death with an AK OF
Ratchet. In each case the mirrors in
the death houses were covered by the
murderer before he began his work
| A burning lamp with the chimney
off was left at the foot of the bed. A
basin in which the murderer washed
after the crimes was found In the
kitchen, still bloody, in each instance.
"he murderer avoided leaving finger
prints by wearing gloves. This is re-
garded as evidence of the mans un-
canny astuteness for his finger prints
are on record at the federal military
prison at Leavenworth.
Sheriff Grin E. Jackson of Red Oak
is one of the men who in the face OF
seemingly unsummountable obstacles
has never abandoned hope that some
day he would be able to lay his hands
on the murderer of the Moore family.
He has worked with and aided the
Burns operatives all thru their hunt
for "Blackie"
term in office when I close a cell door
on Insane Rlackie," he said over the
phone this morning.
A chain Of circumstances stranger
than the weirdest invention Of the
master minds of fiction has led to the
solution of the most atrocious series
of murders in the history of the United
States-the murders of the dreaded
AMMAN.
If a barefoot girl had not stubbed
her toe into a thorn in a briar patch
on the outskirts of Villisca, Iowa. the
evidence upon which the arrest OF the
AMMAN has been ordered would never
have existed.
Insane Blackie," alias Bill" Mans
field, alias George Worley, alias JACK
Turnba ugh, deserter from the United
States army and cocaine iend, now
being hunted by police of many cities,
towns and hamlets as the ax-man,
planned his long series Of murders
with more cunning than can be at
.tributed to his drug stated mind.
And yet at every turn in his long
criminal trail some strangely malig-
nant power voided the result of his
cunning.
Real Detective Story.
When you have read this story of
the crimes for which "Blackie" is
wanted and how Il became possible 10
solve them you become convinced
anew that nothing is as certain as the
old truth. murder will out" no mat
ter what is done to hide it.
From the evening eight months be-
fore the crime when it was planned
in a dense clump of willows behind an
abandoned slaughter house on the
banks Of the Nodaway riveG-and
overheard-to the Sunday night when
the ak monster lay in hiding in the
closet Of the Moore homo IN Villisca
and chopped to bits the skulls OF Joe
Moore. his wife his four children and
two girl visitors the sinister influence
which had logged the steps OF the
man who Welded the az and the men
who paid liirrto do ii, never for a
moment.EeIaxed its vigilance.
AT every turn in the road this incar-
nation Of Retr!bution stood ready leaV-
ing behind the damning bits OF EVIL
dence that no human minc could sus-
pect nor foresee.
II was destined from the first that
the men that planned and paid for the
assassina ton of big. jovial, good =
hearted Joe Moore and his innocent
family were to ne dragged from the
fancied security they have enjoyed Tor
three long years. ...