Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-06-18
WIFE OF MURDERED MAN TELLS
OF INTIMACY WITH
eoARoER.
koloA SOUGHT TO INDUCE
HER TO LEAVE ROE
Refusal Believed to Have Resulted in
Deliberate Murder Of Husband and
Attempted Suicide Of koida-Mur-
derer Bound Over to Grand jury
Without Bond.

Mason City, June lS.--Joseph Kolda,
charged with the murder of Roy Roe
on the night Of May 20. was bound
over 10 the district court 10 await the
action of the grand jury in Justice ID,
d. Fullers court at the court house
yesterday. Charges OF first degree
murder have been lodged against
Kolda and he has been remanded to
the county Jail without bail until the
September term OF the district court.
The hearing this morning was mere
ly preliminary but striking develop
ments showed up. The evidence of
Drs. Long and starr and Chief OF
Police Tom Locke was given first.
They told of being called to the scene
between and 10 o'clock. of finding
Roe dead with a bullet in his head
and chest, lying on the bed end kolda
lying on his back with a revolver
bullet in his head and the revolver
with four empty shells and one loaded
shell lying near his hand on the floor.
Received Presents
With the introduction OF Mrs. Roe
on the stand the case turned out to
be a reversal OF the Ibseu plot-the
eternal triangle. Mrs. Roe admitted
having received pair of silk hose
from Kolda as a Christmas present,
Of having given him a pair of cuff
links in return and that kolda was in,
fatuated with her. Kolda who worked
with Mrs. Roe in the meat cutting de-
partment at Deckers was persuaded
to room at the Roe home al 1928 North
Washington avenue by Mrs. Roe. Then
they commenced going to movies. TAX
ing walks and going TO union meetings
at the labor hall together Both Roe
and his eldest daughter had warned
her. Mrs. Roe said. not to go with
Kolda- But even after Kolda had been
driven out Of the house by Roe she
continued meeting him. Altho KoIda
had never asked her to procure a
divorce from her husband, ne had
asked her TO move away and had
offered her the money to 60 on. But
she stated that she said that she would
never leave her husband and her two
children. At one time he had loaned
her 312 to pay the coal bill. because
Roe who was working in the Quarries
at the Northwestern Portland Cement
plant and earning but little more than
did Mrs. Roe when she worked. was I'll
in bed and finances were low. She
paid this money back, she said.
On the day of the murder. Mrs. Roe
had taken a street car ride and a walk
with Kolda. Later he became -intoxi-
Gated, it is alleged and came TO the
Roe home after the husband and wife
had retired. Mrs. Roe awoke from a
doze and heard him try the door She
asked Who is It? What do you
WANT" She was answered by shot
that went wild and thru the window.
Then Kolda turned on the electric
light and she saw him.
Don't, please don't kill-us," she
shrieked.
I'll let you live" Kolda answered.
its him I want" Then he fired two
shots into the awakening man and
shot himself.
Mrs. Roe said the only trouble she
had ever had with her husband had
been because he wanted to take all the
available money and go up into Mime
sofa on farm. which had hitherto
proved disastrous. She said the reason
she went with Kolda against her hus-