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Show "supposed to " I BE VENGEANCE EX-CONVICT IS THOUGHT TO BE THE MURDERER Kansas Authorities Searching for Charles Marfyek In Connection With Butchery of Showman FamilyFormer Fam-ilyFormer Wife In Danger. Kllsworth, Has., Oct. IS. Counts authorities today began a search foi Charles1 Marzyek, an ex-convlct, In connection with the murder here Sunday Sun-day of Wllilain Showman, .Mrs. Showman Show-man nnd their three chlldi en. Qoer-nr Qoer-nr Stuhhs has offered a $.'00 rownrd. for the slayer. Mar.ek wns released from the penitential y a year ago after af-ter serving a sentence for grand larceny lar-ceny for stealing wheat from a farmeJ bv whom he was employed. Marzyek's former wife, who obtained a divorce and re-maiTled following his sentence to the penitentiary, is n sister of Mrs Showman. She ls said to have mnde a stntement to the authorities today that testimony of Mr. nnd Mrs. Showman wns largely responsible for Mnrzyek's conviction nnd that before he went to prison ho had sworn en-gennco. en-gennco. It Is said Mnrjek has been seen about Kllswoith within u week. The finding last night of a bloodstained shirt and a pair of i-lson shoes In a local hotel room whose accupant has disappeared encouraged the authorities authorit-ies In their search for the ex-convlct. More Murderers Expected. Mrs. Minnie Vopat, former wife or Chnrles Murzzzjek, said today that Marzyek wns convicted of forgery In Colorado Sidings, where the six members mem-bers of the Wayne and Ilurnhnm families fam-ilies were murdered and that ho was acquitted In Monmouth, 111., where threo persons woro slain October 1. The weapon used In each Instance was an nxe. Marzjek Is still belleed to he In the neighborhood. He wns seen last night by three persons. Mnrzyek wns running run-ning through a whent field. This morning an nrmed posse led by Snm Showman, brother of the murdered mnn, left for the Vopnt farm and will search the country In eery direction If Mnrzyek Is found n fight Is expected. Sheriff Ilrad-shnw Ilrad-shnw has ordered that he be taken dead or alive. |