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STORYOF MURDERConfession In a Cell Leads to Arrest.IS GIVEN AWAY BY A CONVICTWHunsicker Charged With lt;den County Double MurderFour Years Ago. fJefferson City, Mo., Nov. 15.— Sheriff I. H. Wilson, of Camden county, lodged Wi C. Hunsicker, of thatcounty, in jail here last night on a charge of a double murder committed in Camden county more than four y^ars ago.George H. Anderson and a ,woman named Wireback were the victims. Both lived on farms about two miles from the county seat, Linn Creek. ThecommittedaxThecouple were literally chopped to pieces. Tl is presumed that jealousy over the woman prompted the crime.Some time after the commission of the crime, Hunsicker was convicted of horse stealing and sentenced to the penitentiary fored that his cellmate in the peniten-, a convict named Young, learned from him that he had committedmurders and recently informed the officers.Meantime, Hunsicker had servedout his time and left this part of theState. He was located, however, through convict Young, so the officers claim, and was arrested yesterday morning at Atherton, Jackson county.Today Hunsicker will be taken to Linn Creek. He denies knowing anything whatever about the murder. The officers claim to have evidence that he was in Camden county at theHmo thA crime was committed.nticipate thatthe apprehen-n of Hunsickermanknown robbery was not the motive the crime. The officers suspect thatoever committed the double mur-* was hired to do so.The brutality of the murder excitedpeople of Camden county verymuch. Anderson was killed in a com , after dark, and the woman waskilled at the door of her home, onAnderson’s farm. Anderson’s headwas severad and the woman was horribly mutilated.
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Sedalia Evening Democrat
Sedalia, Missouri, US
Fri, Nov 16, 1906
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