Show jSUflUAYlnUKflinCK NOVEMBER 10 1929 THE OGDEN STAHDAT?t T' fi s 'll' the And Strangi Details of thel Secret Lif “ ' " ' "i ! h F Red Rex Frolkeu Which Led ' End Everything V- - k 5r' a 1 1 ZZr -'- '7f 'V- - r-i-- T O- - 7j ! Jl ’ r i " i s r-- ' The Mysterious Photography Bullet-Pierce- d Torn fend JN'esr Found Trampled the Ufeles Body of the Rev' Rex Frolkey f T -- J there had something te do" with it i On the afternoon of September 80 they were admirroadster parked near ing the town bank They no--' ticed the Identification card -listed the name of Rex Frol c key - A moment later they saw a tall masked man dasn bank nd fpetd away JmI car Several momenta later they learned that the cashier of the bank and a customer had been locked In the vault robber after he had obtained $700 j t ‘ 'hetlznn spread rapidly and Reuben and to sonthiswaitingSiepertas patiently for? kina of clinching just evidence sprang Into action TJie3r rtfirfcd la pursuit of the car The two cars raced forty miles’ But Frolkey i The managed to escape Siepertas hurried to the home of Mrs Frolkey in Le Mars A little f later Frolkey drove up and entered! the home Chief lof Police Frank1 Smith joined the" Siepertas and the trio called Frolkey from the home and questioned him Be was' calm at the" suggestion that he was a bank robber ive lived here twenty years ami will be here for twenty years he said' “If there is any- -' 7Y Before Shooting lliime Bullet into the “Myfljtcrj I Held In II ui - HE astonishing Jory of a strange Br JekylI-M- r ecclesiastical Hyde career waslbrc ught to light recently when the RdV Hex Frolkey a respected evangelift minister I of Le Mars la shot himjelf death in pulse came addenkuJddaf when heT realised that! his double life as a minister on Sundays and a bank bandit and gambler on we ik days bad ' b 1 been discovered While a posse of police officials and enraged citizens closed In on him the Rev Mrl with a lliblkto one hand and hfrolkey revolver infthe other— both fyrobols rof his dual Uf js— fyed a bullet into his brain Then it was the citilens of Le’Mars learned to their amazemert details of the secret dual personality of a man of supposed exemplary character Throughout his lift the R key remained unblemisJieThy the whisper of scandal ButUftey his death camea ieries of reports many of them verified! which involved him with bank robberies! gambling and promiscuous 1 association with women Among a select few of be citizens of Lo Mars there had been certain suspicions concerning th evangelist1 minister Andj their suspicions were verified oh the night of September 80 when he was Identified as the bandi : who held up and robbed the Sioux Center State Bank j When he found b mself trapped after a long chast by a did posse the' Rev Mr a curious thing whichFrolkty may have duet as £ the £rovided some behind his life He whipped out a revolver and fired a shot ICplerced a photo graph he held In hl4 hand It was the picture of a woman! The startled possa rushed minister He hastily prayers from his Bible fired another shot pierced his brain As his pursuers surround J: lifeless body thej about the mlnlste three strangely tnc ous objects that such an Important part In his life— the Bible the revolver and the mutilated photograph It was the picture that created a' mystery Where did- It I come from? Who was Its original? What madness 'was behind the minister’s gesture in firing a bullet Into it? All these were questions that died unanswered with the sufcide of the Rev Mr But It was reFrolkey called (later by some? of the minister’s acquaintances few ' weeks before that his death he had expressed his intense disappointment and anger with women in general That was at a time when he knew things were closing iq on him when some The Cer of his associates were be Beside ginning to suspect And as the Rev Mr Frolkey saw the public finger of scorn minting his way and the arm pi the law Inexorably I 1 - ‘ “Even while he has--' lily read aloud prayers from his Bible the minister on his knees fired- bullet into his brain just as the posse was surrounding him sr The Rev Rea Frolkey Ordained Evangelical Minister of Le Mart Iowa Who Turned Bandi and Then Killed Himself When He Wee Found Out -- his wife that he needed the separate apartment for ‘‘business" reasons She ?®lle7£d tM®’ She gave him money to the place! t But soon there seeped totoLe Mars reports concerning extravagant par tyJFrolkey in his Sioux apartment Other reports were thatCity he gambled heavily! Which accoi pocketbook however claimed! that he ws others have rece 4WW vuucr ufees: “1 W ail these Mumblings disconcerted ft9 RmV- - Mr- - nrolkey h did notj dm- SLY j perat ?ar and angers u ?ou the women of bis love career Thi early life of the Reif Mr Frol-kecontradicts the asser tion that 'environment hak a major effect upon a persbn’s Iif and iUCutl £rolky was born iri'Eddyvllle 45 years ago lie there until early manhood Therejlived it was he marr ed and became the father of two oft-repat-ed 'sons 4 j first wife diec Leaving his boys with his parents le went to :: HlSdieJ-foTthrmi"- t°tdo® J? rf e P’''!”? virtue £ eTh’i SXRft K5p&a !? bis son Anton knew Frolkey well “ Xh? cause s that coincided with interyabinterv-ElVvfSfn°f 5ank rolberi?s- Annr?H S0!' beries hacl b?fn Parted by a t theViSS cSed ffi V ktd0!?h lTheSSO&00fl0neXilkhfrtdene once they saw theevan- Jd the minister’s good reputation the fcelist preaching rigorously ’andTsln- on Sunday or ‘So things continued cely when he was leading mornings a Bible class to go sstisfaetprily for the Rey Mr t J However even more serf Frolkey His friends and acquaintances1 howous rumors came to the at tentlon of Reuben Siepertas ever began to distrust him as they tk president of the Commercial heard reports of his lavish parties Club of Sioux Center There lUlilUta U UU had been reports of f constant need for money mysterious bank rob r In order to entertain a woman friend beries in the vicinity itta m n M and efforts to track main down the bandit had tain The woman was not his wife failed Police officials But the unmasking of the Rev Mr Ut irtL°U Frolkey was brought about-a- t last The tba£part ? H curiosity ot C- a seed ore in f Sioux Center - and h?lVM°xUrSmsclvej I and Henry i)egroot village blacksmith i f ir “ TvM XVi'i 4 Suddenly Into a lane? leading to °wned by hie wife The Siepertas were going so fast and were so close to hiniJ i? ' that they could not turn They drove n' S‘ tl’i on slowed down turned around and ? the sqm taken In these several drove to the The 20 000 In Sther mibS nVd U0 thTp0!“e f ji ‘ all of them the! same' methods had them: V They were Just in time to liearthe Mrf SiepertaJ and - his son became thenlcture11 1m further lotertited when uspiclon he'd Jn h" Vt tT (hi directed fain toward the minister fol- - - mris tew' a T f i ing further I'll be right here’ The Chief of Police departed1 but the Siepertas drove away- - and then watched the Frolkey home In a few minutes the minister entered his car and dashed away again: Once more the Siepertas raced after Frolkey They were joined by others including the i police v 'The furious pursuit sometimes at seventy miles an hour led over rough country roads and soon the possa was Close on Frolkey’ car The elder Sie--1 t-m-M- -- - V en” more-Tentlem- ‘ U i 1 j I yr ! ’ 1 MffS' ? I Shei ’ hurried tSwardS rnfaisU shouting for him to drop the revolver ! they heard another shot The minister slumped to the ground ! ' One hand faintly clutched the revolver and the Bible was still gripped in the other hand Th'e photograph of the 1 1 5 v lt andutoS:Ttirdr I : - ?1 w that the case of Mr Frolkey should have opened two avenues of speculation One question In the minds of the people of the several small towns through which he moved was: “What ? did the mysterious photograph of the woman symbolize th the minister's life?” The other question a more academic one concerned itself with the'environment and the psychological fac ’ tors that contributed to his dual career So far 94 the photograph Is eon cerned its mystery probably will re--1 t main impenetrable The ' assumption that It was crushed pierced with a bul : let and trampled upon In a last out burst of angry emotion Is significant i It may have been that the picture ef I the woman was merely symbolic of the I " — the Rev - -- ’ Used by the Minister-Band- it In His Attempt Jo After a Bank Escape Robbing the Car ere Reuben Siepertas and His Son Anton Who Pursued Frolkey also starred as a tackle on the college When radio was In Its Infancy football team Frolkey became Interested in it With some of hi wife’s money he began to Uara experiment with broadcasting In a able fortune and daughter of a prom-dnesmall way The college where he was Le Mars family They were ? riudent at the time was persuaded married after a brief courtship She by him to erect a broadcasting station took care of his two children Frolkey became manager operator and Finally Frolkey was ordained a tnin-H- e announcer Later however the Radio began by assisting pastors Commission took the station’ license of churches in and about Le Mars The away- Just before the station ceased func J I minister-bandit’- other factors "LKs:fA“ ofbyrorajhl!poucdu1yM: arresting and causing the conviction a youth looted the to the regular Sunday church services The who station second Mrs Frolkey idolized her But even when be was so highly husband and helped him in his work If anyone In town had been asked" esteemed when he was preaching the to man ln- - thXghoSr IwT“thinE S5STlta j the Rev Frolkey would have been the first 5!! mentioned naent In 'slonx' CUyHVVxplalneTto li 1: u MlbUre 1 — hatred for and dis- appointment with all women The psychologists however looked' at the matter from a colder viewpoint The picture of course was but they reasoned there must important have been nt &TSS& s f Reulien S!epeRRS After t crianf M - Environment could "not have con’ tributed to the badness of the Rev Mr FrolkCy’s life It contributed perhaps to his goodness For as has been shown in this article he was bom and raised in a good family and when he "entered manhood was a model youth There was nothing abnormal about him Yet som where to his mature life' something clicked and his brain his spirit and his emotions so to speak diverted into two paths —the good and thd bad In the end they converged— n'Son Anton of1 Sioux Center Who Led the Fosse a Bible in one hand an a revolver to Robbed the Sioux City State Bank the other t i ‘ r |