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Colchester, Connecticut, April 10th, 1904.

Haggard from want of sleep, Sheriff George O. Jackson, and a posse of 15 or 20 deputies and citizens,

are scouring the southern part of town in the borders of East Hampton and Salem in their

hunt after John Marks, the Hebrew, who is believed to have butchered and cut up a farmhand,

a pole named Pavel. Somewhere in the territory

which the posse are beating is their quarry, Marks, more used than they to rough living and who is

making every effort to escape. Marks may have slept Saturday night, but there is no reason to think he did.

His pursuers did not slumber, nor will they tonight.

All day today they have been floundering through the mud of the back country roads,

tracking across the hills and plunging into the swamps in search of the man who they believe committed the murder.

Saturday night was marked by one of the hardest rainstorms of the spring,

but the pursuers kept on the trail, calling the dwellers and the farmhouses from their slumbers,

and in most cases giving them the first

news of the tragedy discovered at Colchester Friday afternoon. When day broke this morning,

other men joined the hunt, just as keen for a capture as were the men who had followed the trail

for two days. Young farmers who

heard of the murder took their teams and started out with a description of marks.

Deputies and constables were impressed into service and the hunt went on as the sun rose

with renewed vigor. The special objects of scrutiny on the part of the hunters are the few Jewish families who live in the southern part of Salem,

in the eastern part of East Haddam, and the northern part of Lyme, and the little settlement called Hamburg.

In some of these families, it is thought that the murderer has

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