People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — STARTLING REVELATION. [ARTICLE]

STARTLING REVELATION.

Forty Veterans Have Been Robbed and Murdered at Dayton, O. Dayton, 0., Oct. 10. —Police search for perpetrators of the two recent murders of veterans of the soldiers’ home on pension day develops a situation more horrible than the terrible Bender crimes in the west. Forty’ old soldiers have been robbed and murdered at the national military home here and only passing notice taken of the crimes. The grand army is taking hold of the matter and the feeling exists that the government should place detectives here to collect evidence against murderers who have grown rich by robbing the veterans. Local police authorities can go no further than to give pointers that will surely lead to the arrest and conviction of the guilty ones.