Roy Adams Established an Alibi and Officers Say They are Against a Stone Wall, so Far as Evidence is Concerned.

The murderer of Rollin Hudson and his wife, Anna, in Paola, on the night of June 5^th, has not been captured. Not an arrest has been made and F. Marion Chandler, sheriff of Miami county, says there is not a single, tenable clew which might lead to the apprehension of the fiend. There have been no new developments to the double murder mystery since last week.

Roy "Hookey" Adams, an alleged affinity of the murdered woman, was believed to have been connected with the crime, but it seems that he established an alibi. J. L. Ghent the Kansas City detective, who as assisting the local authorities on the case, made a trip to Adams’s home in Akron, Ohio, one day last week. He learned that Adams had applied for work in a rubber plant, at Canton, Ohio, the night the crime was committed. The detective is no longer working on the case, Sheriff Chandler says, being satisfied that the "axe-man," who has slain whole families in different parts of the country the past year, is guilty of the Hudson murders.

A telegram from Hudson, Wyoming, last Monday, stated that a man giving his name as Roy "Hookey" Adams, arrived in Hudson June 2^nd and left on the east bound train on the morning of the 4^th. He had mining tools with him the telegram said. The local officers say this is not the Roy Adams, who knew the Hudsons.

The threatening letter of the affinity found on the stairway leading to Justice Hanna’s office, where it was placed by some unknown person, has been returned to Sheriff Chandler, but its contents will not be given to the public.

Last Wednesday afternoon, John Dageforde, of East Valley township, was in Paola and remarked in this office that he was positive that he saw Mrs. Hudson on the morning of Decoration Day, standing on the Hanna bridge on and one-half miles southeast of Paola. With her was a strange man about 6 feet tall. "They were quarrelling and seemed greatly excited about something," said Mr. Dageforde. "After I passed them, I turned around and saw the man shake his fist in the woman’s face. I didn’t think much about the occurrence until I saw Mrs. Hudson’s picture in your paper last week. I am positive the woman on the bridge was Mrs. Hudson." Mr. Dageforde says the strange man was dressed in overalls, turned up at the bottom. He would recognize the man, he says, if he again saw him. Herman Wendte, of East Valley, also saw the couple on the bridge quarrelling and is sure the woman was Mrs. Hudson.


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Misty's Reading, Paola KS

Joyce's Reading, Paola KS

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Murderer Came In The Night  (Western Spirit, June 14, 1912)

Found The Affinity Letter?  (Western Spirit, June 14, 1912)  

Fiendish Double Murder  (Miami Republican, June 14, 1912) 

No Clew To Hudson Murder  (Western Spirit, June 21, 1912)