Long Terms In Jail For Men Who Tarred Teacher
Lincoln Center Kansas Nov 24 three confessed tar party members E G Clark J Fitzwater and John Scranton were sentenced to a year in jail each by Judge Grover None showed emotion and all pleaded guilty November 16 they were told ample time to arrange affairs before jail Milliken argued the sentence excessive and police court will likely extend parole. Clark presides over a Shady Ber milling company Fitzwater is a miller Scranton works for Everett Clark The jury later sought more testimony about A N Simms regarding an alledged attempt to attend the tar party.
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Lincoln Center
Kas
Tar
E. G. Clark
J. Fitzwater
John Scranton
Grover
Milliken
Clark
Scranton
Fitzwater
A. N. Simms
Tarring
Murdered wife buried grave discovery and arrest
A missing woman is found dead in a grape arbor grave two months after her disappearance. The husband Walker confesses to the murder, detailing the crime and leading police to the body near Lindenwood. He is arrested after weeks of surveillance and a formal confession.
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Walker
Kesler
Lindenwood
Noti
Wife Slayer Walker Confesses To Murder Of Katie Walker
William T. Walker, a Fort Wayne lineman, confessed to killing his wife Katie Walker on September 23, describing a quarrel with two men on Columbia street, a hatchet attack at their Spring street home, and a plan to bury her in the yard. Police recovered parts of the body from a wooded site after tracking clothing linked to the missing woman, leading to his arrest and eventual confession.
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Walker
Roy Thompson
Gang of Home Telephone and Telegraph Company
Tie
Thompson
Columbia City
William Pappert
Columbia Street
Tfe
Harry Uilveman
Stephen A. Callahan
Buuck
Buster
The
Sentinel
William T. Walker
Katie Walker
Pennsylvania Depot
Wes
Franklin Avenue
Spring Street
Woman dies after saying she swallowed muriatic acid
Mrs. Charlotte Cope, 48, wife of Daniel Cope, died at 7 10 Friday morning after telling her husband she had taken muriatic acid. No burns were seen, a post mortem was planned, and coroner Kesler weighed whether it was suicide or accident. She left a wealth, two sisters, a brother, and a husband.
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Charlotte Cope
Daniel Cope
Washington Boulevard West
Cope
Mr. Cope
Frank J. Gruber
Fort Wayne
J. I. Fenner
Garrett van Sweringen
W. W. Barnett
Pair of Young Adults Named in Casual Listing
A brief public notice lists individuals including Joseph Gumbeski 26 laborer and Mariana Misicholski 23, along with Harry Schmidt 23 stenographer and Inez E Bohling 24, in a fragmented form from a local notice segment.
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Joseph Gumbeski
Mariana Misicholski
Harry &. Schmidt
Inez E. Bohling
Former teacher Nellie Perkins tours mission drive
Miss Nellie Perkins, former Springfield and Cedar Creek teacher now in church missionary work, travels from Oklahoma to New Mexico and Arizona. On vacation near Maysville, she lectures to raise 500 dollars for a Wagon Mound NM mission building. She helped start a Sunday school there and speaks next Sunday at Black Creek U B church.
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Nellie Perkins
Springfield
Cedar Creek
Oklahoma
Kansas
New Mexico
Arizona
Maysville
Wagon Mound
N. M
Miss Perkins
Home Mission Board
United Brethren Church
Black Creek
ZIEGLER ESCAPES FROM PRISON
Jeffersonville Indiana November 24 Ben Ziegler and Chester Brown escaped from the reformatory last night and have not been captured. Ziegler would have been paroled within two days. Both were trusties. Ziegler came from Fort Wayne on September 9 1909 to serve two to fourteen years for entering a house to commit a felony. He was arrested August 31 1908 by Detective Charles Lenz for robbing farm houses while owners were at church. He was first charged with burglary. He was a stranger in the city and gave his residence as Missoula Montana.
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Flay
Walker
Fin
Jeffersonville
Tned
Ben Ziegler
Chester Brown
Ziegler
Fort Wayne
Charles Lenz
Missoula
Mont
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Simms
Ber
Hungry Hill
Arlington Heights
William Walker
Home Telephone and Telegraph Company
Kate Sowers
Abraham Sowers
Hayden Street
Charles ¢Hosford
Charles Hosford
Cincinnati
Nick Keffer
Peter Certin
New Haven
Darice Hall
van Wert
Indiana
Dave Sowers
Pontiac
Hanna Streets
Bert Heller
Blanch Stoner
Lima. O
Charles Douglass
Ashtabula
Ohio
Cyrus Marks
Poinsette's
Hundred Acres
William F. Pappert
Abbott
Marks
Pappert
Albert E. Thomas
Walker Home
Walker’s Garden
Southwest
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