Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1911 — Possible Clew to the Murderer Of Wayne Family in Colorado. [ARTICLE]

Possible Clew to the Murderer Of Wayne Family in Colorado.

Medaryville Advertiser. Several tragedies of identically the same nature and very much under the same circumstances have been reported since the Wayne-Burnham murder in Colorado Spring* to bring one to the belief that the same hand committed all of them. Sunday night, at Ellsworth, Kas., Wm. Showman, his wife and three small children were killed with an ax while they slept in their beds. Two weeks ago a similar murder was commtited at Monmouth, 111. This makes fourteen murders, all committed in the same manner. And now comes Mrs. Minnie Vopat, of Ellsworth, Kas., former wife of Cha*. Marzyek, an ex-convict and makes the startling statement to the Ellsworth authorities that Marzyek, who is sought in connection with the murder of the Showman family, has been in Colorado Springs recently, where the six members of the WayneBurnham families were killed, and also was acquainted in Monmouth, 111., where three persons were murdered with an ax recently. Marzyek is described as a very vindictive character and nothing short of murder will satisfy his hatred. . Samuel Showman, brother of the murdered man, is heading a posse In search of Marzyek, who la believed to be hidden in the neighborhood of Ellsworth. «