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‘‘Murder will Out.”By a chain of almost positive evidence one Clark Ivens, a young man about twenty-four years of age, whose parents reside at Montezuma, Pike County, is now in custody at out county jail, charged with the murder of Mr. John W. Halbert, which occurred on the nightof the 30th ult. Taking up this chain, link by link, the culprit was trace© to a pojnt two miles east of Manchester, where he was arrested, on Tuesday morning last, by Deputy Sheriff Jones. Since the arrest the accused, we learn, has substantially confessed that he was an accomplice in the deed, and it is believed he will yet give the wholet/uth. Ivens is somewhat known by different parties in this vicinity, and he is, though young in years,an old offender. He is supposed to be one of the party who killed I)r. Foley, of Montezuma, four years ago, about which time he disappeared from home and was not heard of until arrested at Carlinville for stealing the jewels of the Catholic Church there. For that he was sent to the State Prison two years. His brother, who also killed a man in Pike county, some years ago, is now serving a term of twenty years In the State’s Prison, He was examined before Justices Rainey and Cook on Wednesday, and remanded to jail for trial in the Circuit Court.—Carrollton (IU.] Gazette.
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Bloomington Daily Leader
Bloomington, Illinois, US
Wed, May 20, 1874
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