Show A lonal feb S amos J ane anilli onalee war found ill 8 heard a pistol shot coli ting from snells room but bald no attention to it until later hen lie it as found ill a but botholo in his left brea breatt tt andon tho back of its left car tito murderers lad effected an entrance by sailing ont 2 anci of a back door snell wal one of tile at real estate owners in am all lift bu was ol in the of ilia own house in safes the in regard to the murder Is that a carefully planned robbery had been arranged it was known that during tile of each month large sums of miney m iney the proceeds I 1 rom the re rits of snells honses were ke p t in the house and it is th t an entrance thio to this use and were at work at the safe when buell heard a bol also and debt down and surprised the thieves at their work ilia body w a a found in the hall just at the eitran ee to ills office the burglars who entered snells residence made a raid during the night on several houses in the i hool the trucks in the anaw scholl ing that they went front one backyard to another the occupants of snells mansion wt night were the owner ag ged 64 two servant als and two small children de tg tives tire at work on the case but m yot have dig cover edno clue asto the identity of the murderers 8 no 11 was one bof tile wealthiest and beat known eizens of the west side having been con necked bilth chiango history a great many years lie leaves a wife and two married daughters ills fortun 0 it tile time of bi 8 death it mounted to three billions wil lions to tight a young man who was card crying a was arrested on a downtown down town street by two detectives the fellow failed to account for him self satisfactorily and lie wis taken to the central ion auld the bundle I 1 feind to contain six dark ter tx augers one extension bit six slung shots six steel knuckles two ounces of dynamite two ounces of glant powder three dirk knives ties four bolsters foai 33 calibre colts revolvers four jim six fuse matches a lotof mail bouc h keys a large bunch of skeleton keys and several skeleton saws tile p r chief his n a mo was charles V W benedict Be that lie was 19 years old and his ho marshalltown Marshall town lo 10 wa lie d that frank mccord 18 years old george dung 17 ears thadaus 21 and hemsell him sell all of marshalltown Marshall town bad agreed to form a gang of burglars and he had been sent to this city to purchase tile necessary tools with which to begin work lie firkaly denied having anything to do with the snell murder and in aisted that big accomplices ere all in marshalltown Marshall town awaiting its return chief ebersold telegraphed tile chief of police at marshalltown Marshall town asking for the whereabouts of the men named and received an answer that the were they are all known to the chief of police in halftown halltown hall town but lie does not know their em tension bit found in is a one but bem ayi of recent use and it tallies in size with tile one used in boring holes in the bock door of enells residence one revolver benedict had on ills wa T not loaded but each abrl egon r had in it an empt y shell and the revolver showed of having recent been fired agns gns bullets in mr knells body were 38 calibre is the same size used in the empty revolver in Benedic ils pocket benedict Beh edict was formerly a postal clerk on the C B Q railroad the police refuse to say that they think he is the murderer |