Iowa
Old Press
Iowa City Press Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa
December 2, 1921
Chas. O'Connor of South Dakota returned home Wednesday after a
short visit with relatives in Nolan Settlement.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Nov. 2003]
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Iowa City Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson co., Iowa
December 10, 1921
DEATH CALLS F.J. DONOHOE
Attorney Frank J. Donohoe, of Sioux City, formerly proprietor of
the Hunt hotel here, and late owner of Donohoe's New West hotel,
in Sioux City, died there, yesterday, aged 55, says a sad message
to Mr. Dennis Maher, his old friend. He was born in Holbrook,
Iowa, and passed his early life in Iowa and Johnson counties.
Surviving are his widow and one daughter, Marie, a Sister of
Charity, in a Chicago convent; and one sister and five brothers -
Nora Donohoe, Iowa City; Rev. Father Donohoe, Davenport; Dr. A.P.
Donohoe, Davenport; Patrick and Michael Donohoe, Holbrook; and
Joseph Donohoe, Iowa City. Mr. Donohoe was a man of many splendid
qualities of mind and heart, and was an able professional and
business man. He had an army of friends in and near Iowa City,
and all will join in voicing their great sorrow and deep sympathy
to his bereaved wife, daughter, and other mourning relatives.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Nov. 2004]
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Iowa City Press Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson co. Iowa
December 14, 1921
Killed Pretty Schoolma'am with a Club.
Waukon, Ia. Dec. 14 -- Earl Throst, 26, confessed early today
that he killed Miss Edna Magnuson, pretty country school teacher
at her lonely school house near Dorchester Monday afternoon.
Being jilted
by the twenty-two year old girl was given as the reason for the
assault by the murderer in his confession to Mrs. Ganda
Martindale, woman sheriff of Allamakee county. Throst was thaken
to the county jail early today because of fear of attempted
violence against him. A successful ruse by the "lady
sheriff" in smuggling the prisoner into the jail past a mob
of 500 last night was thought to have prevented mob violence. The
weapon used by the murderer was a stick of stove wood, Throst
said in his confession. Throst hid in the basement until all Miss
Magnuson's pupils had gone home and then attacked her. She
resisted and he hit her over the head with the club killing her
almost instantly. Throst was arrested as he was boarding a train
at Postville
following the quick work by bloodhounds that trailed the scent
from the schoolhouse to the station. "I had been going with
her for quite a while," Throst said, "and then Otto
Beler talked her out of it. Of course he made it as bad for me as
he could," he added. "If this thing had not happened we
were to have been married next Saturday, December 17." He
then cited recent instances wherein Miss Magnuson had intimated
her ardor for him had cooled. "I could not sleep Sunday
night and spent most of the night
walking around the vicinity of Dorchester," the prisioner
continued. "I went to the schoolhouse late Monday evening.
The children had all gone home and Inga was alone. We quarreled
in the school room. Then she went to the basement to fix the fire
for the night and I followed and we quarreled again. I picked up
a stick
and struck her over the head and she turned around again and I
hit her two or three times. then I left. She did not fight back.
Throst said he did not think Miss Magnuson was dead when he left
her. the lid of a washboiler was used in taking down the
confession, due to the absence of a table. throst placed it on
his knees to sign the statement on it. Throst and Miss Magnuson
attended the same school together as children. Later, Miss
Magnuson was given a certificate to teach school. Her school was
an isolated one and it was here that she was attacked and
murdered Monday. All northeast Iowa is aroused at the crime,
which followed within
twenty-four hours of the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Von
Brocklin of near Frankville. Elmer Brocklin, a brother of the
dead man, is being held as a suspect in the county jail at
Decorah.
[transcribed by S.F., Nov. 2003]
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Iowa City Press Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson co. Iowa
December 19, 1921
Throst Pleads Guilty.
Waukon, Dec. 19 -- Earl Throst, confessed slayer of Inga
Magnuson, 20 year old school teacher near Dorchester last Monday
pleaded guilty to a charge of first degree murder before Judge
Taylor in
district court here this morning. He will be sentenced the latter
part of the week.
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Iowa City Press Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson co. Iowa
December 2?, 1921
Throst Must Hang For Crime.
Waukon, Ia., Dec. 27 -- EArl Throst who was sentenced yesterday
to hang March 9, 1923 for the murder of Miss Inga Magnuson,
Allamakee school teacher will be taken to the penitentiary at Ft.
Madison
tomorrow. He will be executed there.
[transcribed by S.F., Nov. 2003]