The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-08-02
REFORM SCHOOL
BOY IS MURDERER
/, Killed Teacher While Lat.
ter Was Asleep.
BOY A NATIVE OF FOROsv|lLE
DOnned Victims Clothes and
Fled After Murder But
Soon Captured.
MONTE GUESS Is IN TROUBLE

The Louisville Times of Thursday
says:
Monte Euess, II years old, in
mate of the Louisville Industrial
School of Reform, who late Wednes
day afternoon killed his instructor,
Robert Ormes, 26 years old, and es-
capped after removing the victim S
clothing and DOMINIC it himself, was
captured shortly after o'clock this
morning by Sergt. Rector Sanders at
Kosmosdale, eighteen miles from
Louisville on the Eighteenth-street
road.
That a bareheaded and barefoot
boy was seen walking out the Eigh-
teenth-street road last night in the
neighborhood of Valley Station was
the clew which the officer developed
and resulted in the youthful fugi-
tive's apprehension. Young Guess
was riding with the driver of de-
livery wagon of the Grocers' Baking
Company when the officer reashed
out from an automobile and took
hold of his arm, saying: Son,
want you"
well, you got me. But If | had
shoes you would not have got me.
Those rocks hurt my feet too bad. If
l had got to West Point they would
never have taken me alive. I got a
shotgun down there" Guess told
the officer.
The prisoner was driven back to
Orell, placed aboard an interurban
car and brought to the Jefferson
county jail. where a charge of MUIR
der was slated against him. The Of
ficer did not discuss the case with
Guess, and the first the boy knew
that his victim had succumbed to
the wounds he had inflicted was
when he talked to reporters. In the
Police Court this morning the case
was transferred to the Juvenile
Court for August 2.
At the Jail Guess told reporters
that he assaulted Ormes because the
instructor had cuffed and abused
him and on one occasion threatened
his life. He said that 1t was while
he was working on the reform school
farm the first time he was placed in
the institution that Ormes threaten
ed to kill him if he did not improve
his conduct. He said that since his
return to the reform school Ormes
has. slapped and cursed him a num-
Der of times.
Guess is II years old and was born
near Fordsville, Ky. His father,
Charles Guess, died a month ago. he
said. His mother, Mrs. George
Guess, lives at 1905 Grand avenue
and works at the tobacco factory at
Twenty-fourth and Main streets. He
has had but four years schooling in
his life and when he quit school was
in the Fourth grade.
The deed was committed with a
ten-pound balance ball, removed
from a toilet. Six other boys he
cowed into a corner of the room by
means of threats. where they watch
ed the crime, speechless and horrifi-
ed. After raining thirty or more
blows on tie inert victim, Guess
stripped him of his clothes and
donned them himself. He then fed
from the room to the first floor,
where he smashed a window with
his weapon and leaped out into the
open yard. Crossing the yard, he
scaled a ten-foot fence. His hand is
cut and Il is believed that the wound
was Inflicted by glass from the win
dow he shattered.
The assault was committed at
4:30 O'Clock In the afternoon. DR..
William A. jenkins, who was called
to attend Ormes, had him rushed to
the City Hospital. where his death
occurred at 7:15 o'clock. Acting
Coroner William 7. Kammerer found
that death resulted from a fracture
of the skull and other injuries.
Supt. William c. Brown was away
from the institution at the time of