The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Ft. Wayne Sends Detective
to Link Kenosha and
Indiana Sayings.
MORON KILLER HUNTED
Close Similarity of Crimes Here
and in Other States Causes
Police o Investigate.

cago and Milwaukee and has drawn the
curious and the morbid in large num-
bers, but this phase of the case was
climaxed yesterday by the arrival
here of an air fivver taxi party ali
the way from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to
learn all about the Staying and if pos
sible get clue to its perpetrator.
The party consisted of Detective
Sergeant Walter Cavanaugh of the Fl
Wayne police department, Assistant
District Attorney Jackson and Clar-
ence Cornigh, aviator.
Aboard their plane they TAXED into
town yesterday afternoon, came ia
earth at the landing field on South
Rowland avenue, then visited police
headquarters in quest of information
Sgt. Cavanaugh explained to Chief
of Police Thad Logan that their inter
est in the Kenosha double tragedy
arose from the fact that Fort Wayne
in May last had double murder under
circumstances and perpetrated in q
manner almost identical with that OF
the Sears-Latimer killing just off the
Birch road Wednesday evening or in
the early hours Thursday morning.
Fort Wayne Had Auto Murder.
In the Fort Wayne case, a couple
automobi riding at night few miles
out of town, parked on o lonely road
and later their bodies were found, both
shot dead. Though the country has
been searched, Fort Wayne officers
have since been unable to solve the
mystery or apprehend the one or ones
who committed the crime.
When Sgt. Cavanaugh learned that
James Sears and Madeline LatimeI
were driving at night on lonely road
just off Birch road, were known to have
parked their car at the roadside, and
their bodies were early next morning
found in nearby ditch, both of them
dead from gunshot wounds in this
heads, he remarked that the case was
almost identical with the one in Fort
| Wayne.
Sears, ne was told by Chief Logan
was shot once through the jaw from
left to right, the bullet entering jus!
beneath the left ear, and one through
the mouth. Miss Latimer, he learned
was shot once through the middle fore
head and once in the top of the head
The Fort Wayne couple was shot in q
manner almost Identical. The man
was killed by bullet which entered
his head just below the left ear, and
the woman was shot high up in the
middle of the forehead.
Believes Two Crimes Linked.
These points of similarity of attack
and shooting led Sgt. Cavanaugh and
Atty. Jackson to believe that the dis
covery of the perpetrator Of one crime
will solve the mystery of the other and
that is what called them here.
81 would not be surprised" said Sgt.
Cavanaugh, "if you will find that your
people were the victims of maniac.
moron killer who seems to live to him
self and haunt the roadsides- and at
tack and kill people seemingly for the
thrill of killing"
He added that this theory had gain
ed credence after the Fort Wayne kill
ing by similar murders Under similar
circumstanc in Ohio, near Denver
Colorado, and later in Nebraska. The
man under suspicion in all of these
cases, said Sgt. Cavanaugh, is a man
going under the name of Martin Olson.
Dane, who lives a hermit life.
For some time previous to the Fort
Wayne killings, Olson had occupied a
shanty on the outskirts of town. He
disappeared on the morning Of the
discovery of the double killing and has
not been seen there since. For some
time previous to the murders many
nearby homes had been entered and
petty thievery committed. In one case
bicycle was stolen. The thievery
ceased Immediately with Olson's dis
appearance. On the evening of the
killing Olson was seen riding bicycle
out on the road toward the scene
where later the man and woman were
found shot to death.
Moron Woman Attacker.
In some of the murders later COM
mitted elsewhere under similar cir
cumstances and investigated by the FIT.
Wayne men in the hope of solving the
mystery at home, the slayer had at
tackled the woman.
Chief Logan assured Sgt. Cavanaugh
that the vicinity in which Sears and
Miss Latimer met their cruel fate was
one of the most peaceable and law
abiding in Kenosha county, that no pet
ty robbery had been reported from the
section and that so far as known no
moron providers had been seen in the
vicinity either before or after the
crime.
Pending the results of the analysis
of the blood brought to the Office OF
Chemist Henry Miller, the next move
was taken at, eleven o'clock this morn
ing when w. D. Sydney was called to
the Jail garage to photograph finger
prints found on the Stutz roadster in
which the two were found murdered
! Excellent specimens of finger prints
were found on the right rear cross bow
of the top of the roadster, others were
found on the right edge of the wind
shield, and the third set was found
on windshield wings which had been
removed from their brackets and placed
in the back of the car above the seats
Discredit Aged Mans Story.
A startling angle was brought into
the investigation of the murder in
Kenosha when reports were received
here from the chief Of police at Dixon,
H., which declared that they were
holding in the city jail in that town
Patrick O'Grady, who gave his age as
80 and who claims that he is an uncle
of a member of the Chicago detective
force. O'Grady was arrested late Fri
day while under the influence Of
Canned heat" He told the police at
Dixon that he was a witness to the
murder of Madeline Latimer and JIM
ME Sears early Thursday morning.
He was tramping on the highway and