Page 14 Citizen-Tribune, June 4.

2016

It was a murder both fiendish & foul!

BY PENNY LEUTHARD
STAFF WRITER

On the evening of May

14, 1893, 15-year-old Alice
Leonard left her home to go
after the cows. She never returned.
A murdered teen. A 123year-old mystery. Although it
reads like a movie script, the
case is an actual tragedy that
occurred in Lynden Township near Clearwater.
Although newspaper reports of the time show conflicting details, the facts tell
the essential story. At 5 p.m.
on Sunday, May 14, 1893,
Alice Leonard (more often
known as Alice Hayes) attended the flag raising at
Francis Mooney School. Afterwards she returned to the
old Hayes homestead where
she was living, approximately half a mile away.
Around 6 p.m. that
evening, Mike Larkin, a man
who was also living in the
home, sent her out after the
cows, which was her usual
chore. Around 8 p.m. the
same evening her body was
found in the road approximately three quarters of a
mile away by two men passing by. (Today the intersection of 155th St. and 3rd
Ave.) They notified Larkin,
who went and retrieved her
body. The next morning he
sent a telegram to St. Cloud
asking for the coroner to
come.
That evening Deputy
Coroner N. J. Pinault,
County Attorney J. D. Sullivan, Dr. H. A. Pinault and Dr.
I. L. Edmunds came to the
home to look into the matter.
A post mortem was held, and

ELAINE PAUMEN, Marlene Kalla, David Agnew,

Carol Freeman, Deacon Ron Freeman, Cindy Frankstupnik and Becky Frank honoring Alice Leonard on the anniversary of her murder. (Photos by Penny Leuthard)

after examining the body the

doctors determined it to be a
clear case of murder.
Leonard had received
four blows with a dull instrument, one on the back of her
right ear, one on the left side
of her head, one on the
frontal bone above her left
eye and one on her left shoulder. The doctors stated the
blow on the right side was
sufficient to cause death and
was the one she had died
from.
The following day, May
16, an inquest was held at the
Hayes home. The witnesses
testified to how they knew
Leonard, when they had last
seen her, how she had been
found and how she had
looked. All stated she had a
happy disposition and had no
enemies. No information was
discovered that could shed
any light on the murder.
The May 17, 1893 edition of the St. Cloud Daily
Times offered $25 to start a
reward for information lead-

ing to Leonards killer as authorities were at a standstill.

The article stated there were
circumstances surrounding
the case and many suspicious
incidents that needed to be
looked into further, and demanded something be done.
The county did eventually
offer a $500 reward for evidence leading to the arrest
and conviction of the guilty
party, which was never
claimed.
It was true there were
many questionable circumstances, and speculations
abounded.
Leonard was possibly an
illegitimate
child;
her
mother, Julia Hayes, may
have married a man named
Chauncey Leonard in St.
Paul, and after his death remarried a man named Woolrich in Duluth. She passed
away three months before her
daughter. Her grandmother,
Mrs. Ellen Hayes, was raising Leonard. Her aunt, Mrs.
Bridget Hayes Smith, and her

ELAINE PAUMAN at Alice Leonards gravesite on

the anniversary of her murder.

little girl Nellie, her cousin

Thomas Jordan, and Mike
Larkin also lived in the home
at the time.
Larkin first tried to insist
Leonard had weak blood vessels and must have had a
fainting spell, hitting her
head on a rock in the road
and leading to her death. According to newspaper reports, he summoned the
coroner to quiet neighborhood suspicions. This initi-

ated speculation that Larkin

may have been involved in
the murder.
Some witnesses stated
they saw no blood or marks
of violence when Leonard
was found, others stated they
did. Before Larkin sent the
telegram requesting a coroner he covered up all traces
of blood left behind on the
road. By moving the body he
also destroyed any evidence
the police could have learned

by its position in the road.

The two men living in
the home whom suspicion
had fallen on from the first,
Larkin and Thomas Jordan,
both had alibis. However, it
was rumored that after the
murder both Larkin and Bridget Smith were forced to
move out by Mrs. Mollie Jordan, who owned the home;
they later married. This
strengthened speculation that
one or both of them may
have been involved in the
murder.
The
post
mortem
showed Leonard had been violated before her death,
which supported speculation
that another woman may
have murdered her out of
jealousy.
The area in which she
was murdered was away
from traveled routes, and no
strangers or tramps had been
seen in the vicinity. This
backed speculation that she
had to have been murdered
by someone she knew.
A three-foot wooden
club was later found at the
crime scene that looked as if
it had been freshly pulled out
of the bark (which was also
found) and could have been
used as the weapon. It had a
drop of blood on the end of it
On May 14 of this year,
a group of citizens gathered
at Alice Leonards gravesite
in St. Lukes Cemetery in
Clearwater to remember and
honor her. Deacon Ron Freeman from St. Timothys in
Maple Lake blessed the site
and gave a prayer.
The murder of Alice
Hayes Leonard has never
been solved.

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