Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — PIERCED BY BULLETS. [ARTICLE]

PIERCED BY BULLETS.

Mr. and Mrs. Cearob, an Agf/d Couple, Living Near JaneavilJe, Wis., Shot to Death. The Murderer, an Alleged Farm-lnind, Then Robs the House aud Disappears. [Janesville (Wis.) special.] Another terrible crime has been added to the criminal record of Rook County, the brutality of which is scarcely equaled in the history of bloody deeds, This city was thrown into a terrible state of excitement this morning over a horrible murder which has just come to light. Mr. Hieiry Search and his aged wife resided two and one-half miles southwest of the city on a farm. Mr. .Search wns 70 years old and his wife about 65. They lived alone, nnd had in their employ a boy about 10 years old. Saturday night the boy, who resides in this city, went home for lh? first time since he has been working for Search. This morning he went to work as usual, and on going out to the barn he found Ihe body of Mr. Search lying under one of the cows, as if he had been in the act of milking when he fell. The boy thought he had fallen in a fit, as he was subject to such spells. He immediately ran to the house, some forty rods distant, to inform the old lady. He called, but. received no reply. He opened the stairway door and called, but received no answer. He then looked in the dining-room, and saw her dead body lying on the floor. , He i formed one of the neighbors, and Dr. Henry Palmer and Marshal Hogan were soon at the scene of the tragedy. On examination of the body of Mr. Search it was found that he had been shot in the back of the neck. A 32-caliber ball was found at the base of the brain. Mrs. Search was evidently shot with the same revolver, the ball entering just under the right eye and passing through the head. Roth shots must have produced almost instant death. Mr. Search was quite well-to-do, and it was generally known that he kept his money in the house. The object of the murderer Was evidently money. The bureau drawers were ransacked and money taken, but how much cannot be determined. Tpey failed to find $475 in gold. Suspicion rests upon a farm-hand named Edward W. Moore, who has been employed by fanners in the same neighborhood, and who suddenly disappeared, going to Chicago. Moore was paid off Friday. He bought a revolver two weeks ago of the same-size ball as those used in the murder.