Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-13
Devil Made Him SIay
His Wife and Children

49, 1872
Saturday night, after announcing
that the family would visit Sunday
Hoskins' father, Wallace Hoskins
president Of the MEANWHILE bank.
I'VE were all seated at the break,
fast table Sunday morning" the
little girl told Sheriff Simpson
First papa mentioned we should
hurry and get ready to go to grand.
pas house. Neither objected. She
said she had decided that she would
not go. Then papa gotlawful mad
He began to scold and mamma goi
up from the table and went out on
the back porch, Then Gladys and
Roy began to fuss, too. They talked
back to papa. Papa scoIded. He
talked so loud and mean I thought
mamma, who had started to neigh
bors, would hear him and come
back. / was afraid. l got up and
was going to run. / fell down and
papa stepped over me and opened
the back door. He did not 60 out,
but picked up something just OUT
side. He walked across the floor
with an az handle in his hand.
Something struck me on the head
and / don't remember any more" .
Irene ran to a neighbours house
about Is yards distant and told that
her father was killing everybody in
the house. When neighbors arrived
on the scene Hoskins was standing
short distance from the back
porch, on which was lying the pros
trate and bleeding form of the mans
wife. Her head literally had Been
crushed to pulp. In the combina-
ton kitchen and dining room lay the
two children. their heads also
crushed like egg shells.
Hoskins must have rained blows
against the heads of the children af-
ter life was extinct. Mrs. Hoskins'
face and head were mangled and
crushed until they looked like they
had been mashed under tons Of
weight. The room in which the
children were murdered was total
wreck. The chairs and table were
splintered. Even the pictures on
the wall had been torn froms their
places. smashed and scattered over
the floor. A stream of blood was
running out of the kitchen door,
with that of the woman,
flowing down a half dozen steps
and trickiing along the ground a
distace of rs feet
Admits the Crime.
"Yes. I did it," Hoskins sdefiantly
hurled at his questioners. 81 have
been having trouble with that wo-
man and her children for a long
time. | could not stand it any
onger. The final chapter OF the
whole business will be written when
have done the same thing to my
;elf"
Hoskins started to enter the
house saying he would get his razor
IND end Il al. Efforts to stop him
we're of no avail, and when Sheriff
Simpson called at the house a short
while afterwards the man was seat
ID in a chair in the room where the
lead bodies of the boy and girl lay
on the floor. The blood
vas gushing from a wound which
lie had inflicted in his neck from
ar to ear, and from his wrists. The
azor lay at his feet. The man was
.imost unconscious from the loss
# blood. A physician from Pres
.ott was. called. He caught the |
evered arteries and saved him from
bleeding to death.
Weak From Loss of Blood.
Hoskins was unable to make
statement until today. He was so
weak, however, he was not forced |
. talk. Sheriff Simpson declared |
lie would question him more closely |
is soon as his condition would per-
nit il.
1t is said by residents of Adams
md Montgomery counties that there
IRE scores Of persons living here
Who have not retired at nights since
he brains of eight sleeping persons
IL Villisca were beaten out with an
x. without some kind of a weapon
lose by. This is known to have
'een a peaceful neighborhood and
ntiiely void of crime, until the
iillisca ak murders Struck terror
nto the entire community, and there
re a great number of persons who