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Show MI KDER WILL CUT. An Iowa Killing to he Cleared I'p Tod-. Eldora, la., April 28. Special. The old saying that murder will out." is likely to prove true in the case of tho killiug of Henry Johns, in this county, several years ago, which has so loug remained a mystery. For two years J. C. Burke', a detective, has been at work on the case, and it is said has secured a large mass of evidence evi-dence which will implicate in the clime a number of men who nre proniiuent in tho county, including bankers, real os-tato os-tato dealers and others. The true tacts will probably be brought out in the preliminary pre-liminary examination tomorrow of Marx and Uiee, who were arrested in California recently by Burke as the principals in the crime. On April 10, istc, Henry John, n wealthy farmer living one and a hall" miles west of Abbott, was shot from ambush. He had been at Kldora on business 'mid returned to Abbott by train, arriving there about 0 p.m. '1 he night was intensely dark. Johns was met at Abbott by his son and hired a man with a carriage. The three had proceeded but half a mile when they were tired upon, killing one horse and wounding Johns in the left arm ami tearing the clothing from his chest. He fell from the carriage and remained motionless, and heard several voices which, according to his ante-mortem statement, ho reeoguized. His ileal ll occurred in two lnonlhs from the effects of the injuries revolved. The grand jury investigated the case, but could not secure evidence to indict. Two weeks after the death of Johns, Mauc.li and Finn Hauisliarger were taken from the Eldorado jail by a mob numbering 200 men and killed." An attack at-tack hail been made upon two doctors in the Hainsbarger country about sundown sun-down on June 4, '18tC, and the evidence pointed so strongly to the Rainshargers that thev were arrested tho following day, and that night their csacs were taken before a higher judge. These events so intimidated the Kainsbarger-Johns Kainsbarger-Johns gang that thev made little or no effort to secure evidence against the murderers of Johns aud tho regulators for some time, For two years aud a half this county has enjoyed entire freedom from crime, and f ile' people had begun to congratulate congra-tulate themselves that all trouble was over. But now fresh interest has been added to the events of a few years ago by the arrest in California of Charles Marx and N. J. Kice, former residents of Abbott, on the charge of murdering Henry Johns. The preliminary ex animation tomorrow promises to implicate im-plicate a number of men who now stand high in the country, and make one of the greatest sensations of the day. Warrants have not yet been served", but will soon be, for the arrest of W'. P. Hiserodt of Robertson, A. A. Noyes. Amos Banningan and others at Steamboat Rock. Hiserod is the reputed re-puted leader of tho regulators, Noyes is an ex-banker at Steamboat Rock aud Bannigan is an ex-memberof the Rains burger gang, who left them to save himself and testified against them," The state will undertake to prove that Rice, Hiserodt and Bannigan Jid tho shooting, shoot-ing, while a dozen others were present as associates. Hardin county has been the theater of crime for over thirty years. What is known as the "big woods" north of Steamboat rock, has furnished excellent protection to criminals. The Hains-bargers, Hains-bargers, Johns, Coopers, Johnson (who was murdered bv the Rainshargers iu 1884 for furnishing evidence lo the federal fed-eral officers against the members of the trailer for counterfeiting, for whose imir- der Frank and Nate Rainsbarger are now serving life sentences) Ban-nigans, Ban-nigans, Graves, Jack Reid aud others, settled adjacent. For years they were unmolested, the people whom they had plundered nol daring to prose-cute prose-cute for fear of suffering iu life and property. Two or three times the federal officers got nfter member of the gang, and it is said secured a lot of cvih'iice which would have implicated, not only members of the gang in this and other counties, but also some members mem-bers of the vigilance committee. It has been suggested that part of Steamboat Rock and the. Rainsbarger neighborhood neighbor-hood lying to the north of it for live miles 'be fenced off with a stone wall and called the annex to the Iowa penitentiary. |