Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-26 | Page 7 | Farm Murders Still Mystery

STILLMYSTERY Slayer of Eight Persons in North Dakota Family Not Identified TURTLE LAKE, N. D.. April 26. McLean county officials who are investigating in-vestigating tho murer of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wolf, their flvo children and a choro boy, on the Wolf farm near here, said today that they atlll were without tangible clues either as to tho identity of tho murdoror, or motives that prompted the crime discovered Saturday aftornoon. Soven of the eight persons slain hor Saturday were shot and tho eighth was struck a fatal blow on tho sido of tho head with a hatchet, it was docidod at tho coroner's inquest tonight. Jacob Wolf, on whoso farm tho tragedy occurrod, his wife and four daughters were victims of shotgun shot-gun wounds. Martha Wolf three years old, had been struck on tho head with a hatchet. Jake Hofcr, hirod boy, also was shot to death. Some of tho victims vic-tims also had been struck with tho hatchet. Powder marks and burns indicated most of tho shots had been fired at close range.