Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1909 — MANIAC, WANTED FOR MURDER, SURROUNDED [ARTICLE]

MANIAC, WANTED FOR MURDER, SURROUNDED

Escapes From Asylum and Kills Sheriff With Shotgun Wooster, 0., Dec. 10.—Ore E. Boley, an escaped lunatic, who killed Sheriff Jacob Bell of Holmes county and who swears to kill Coroner R. C. Wise, Deputy Sheriff Theodore Bell, Marshal John Anderson and others, is being pursued by a posse. Boley was discharged several years ago from an asylum. Recently he brought to a widow three gallons of peanuts as a love token. He was ar rested and again committed to an asylum from which he escaped Sunday. He obtained a snotgun and shells from the home of Ray Lee in Big Prairie, terrorised a Lutheran revival meeting and then killed Sheriff Bell.