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WHOLESALE SLAYER OF THREE FAMILIES UNCAUGHT. Thought to be in Hiding Near Ells worth, Kans. He Eludes Posses Which Are Scouring Country For Him—Former Wife in Deadly Fear of Vengeance Promised Years Ago, ® OSI and Mrs. HC. Warneana a ® their child and Mrs. A Burnham @ and her two children were Murdered ¢ switch imax at their homes in Cole stufo springs, Colo. Sunday, Sept ay. The families were Slain while asleep. Both families were poor and neither lose was robbed. William Dawson, his wife and daughter, were brutally murdered In ¢ their homes at Monmouth, OL, Sune ¢ Bday, Oct. 1, Dawson was sexton ¢ of a Monmouth Church and the tragedy was discovered when mem ¢ bers of the church went to repri a rim and him for failure to prepare the building for services. The heads of the victims were crushed with an. Dax or gas pipe. The house was not robbed. + AWilliam Showman, his wife and three children Were found murdered + y in their hiame at Blisworth Kan. » Oct 16. As In the first crime, the Weapon wand was an ax and they Bowers murdered as they lay in bed. @ ® Their faces were fearfully battered @ » beyond recognition and thetrakilis @ 5 cared th. Pie load of aaby was severed. The house was not robbed. @ POORS ELLSWORTH, Kan., Oct. é—Charles Marguel, wanted In connection with the murder of the Showman family and who is believed by the authorities to have committed the wholesale slaughter ,of tive otlles families, is still at Jatec. Mar urek is believed to be stiln Idding, in this vicinity, although all efforts of the authorities to find him have been fri tees. One family is waiting every Nour Ui fearful suspense fund mental agony , lest the bruta Chacles Marsreke oy ver sual wreat h Vengeance sworn upon them five years ago. ‘The family that trembles for fear of being the next “marked card In the list of wholesale slaghters is that of James Vopat. Married Marayek's Former White, Vopat was chiefly responsible for Mar zyek being sent to prison five years ago for forgery, and later married Ue pri aner's former Wife. Marzyek swore a terrible vengeance on his family at the time andM nothing can convince Mrs. Vopat that her former husband is new in hid ing near their home. Armed posses of farmers are scouring the country in search of Marzyele, who it is believed will be talen only after a desperate striggle for fear that a lynch ing” Will occur Should he be captured by the countrymen. That the Showman family was slain With an ax in the hands of the person Whe afterwards registered at the Baler Motel in this city, and in the night fed, leaving behind a bloodstained shirt, wis thy finding of the coroner's fre. ‘The handwriting of “Joln Smilin, Junction City,” written on the lgrel register, is declired to be identical with that’ In letters Heceived from Staravele anpert_ Melo, Ton Smitherson’ FP akan JR. Trun.. was at fist believed to be Lie slayer of (heg Showman) family. Harry Baker, thei clerk ,who rented a room to the mysterious John smith, ‘failed to identify Smitherson as Smith, KMiUidiaon was il, due, he said, to a prolonged period of heavy drinking dur ing which he happened to wanderute Gilsworth had got himself twelved in the milder case and he was willing to remain it ja!) until he is better able to travel. Inasmuch as no evidence Against him was found, he was released after a Week's detention.
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Chicago Saturday Blade
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sat, Oct 28, 1911
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