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THE T.K/xidlcrMr S'imrs THURSDAY. JUKE 1872.TRAGIC DEATH.Major Taylor’s Son Found Dead.Tha Tragedy Shrouded is Painful Mysteiy.Verdict c.S the Coroner a Jury.We line wrc been railed upon to record a tragedy ui ire njelacwhoiy thin the one ia which Ernr-i Taylor lul hi* liie.Thi* tragic even: happened Ia4 Wednesday nigbl, tail no knowledge of the casualty wan received by the father and mother of the dead I. r until Thursday morning, when M*j Taylor, the father becoming alarmed at the •bought of hi* aon remaining out over night, went to the I*ulice Headquarter* and reported hi- fear*. Within ten minute- after this, before he l.ad time to reach fit* home, on Broadway, the report that hi* eon had let* found dead in a lot not more than one block from hi- own home, bowed him to the earth mJ no di-trewd hi* wife that her !e*pair«d of. The mournful in* Km *pread throughout the rity, travel, with lightning rapidity.Our reporter at onr« proceeded to the residence of Major Taylo*, went up alaira and aaw the body of Ernest Taylor lyiog upon the bed, with the mu-t killful surgeon* in the room. The face of the dead hoy wa» bite'. viil powder, and the appearance of the right ere indicated that a pistol ball bad |a*» .11 lit‘Agfa it and entered the brain.Tl.e body wa»diacotlt;rt*d by a bur. Letscen ■ and 8 o'clock Thurs lay m r. .Mg It was lying between the liouie on «l-ane -trcei, occupied by Mr-. Spring, and the let,, which run 'along the alley per- ,i. the neigh-borh-iod heard a ,.,-tol -hie V.Vdinwday Bight about'J «. tl . a li.n- before that hour, and t'ha-. Spring admit* (• having beer, -toe. l»v w hen a p. 4.4 wa* tired, and baring pi-ked up the putol herond Ibis nothing deinit* i* known, although the t.iro-BttV Jury retuied , ..-idiot lari evening thill Lart-lt;: Taylor. .. . bit death frtu.witli gnc ■ reason watelligenr* for ill netV Spring ..1- ol at.1 ptto] 11, the hand-*-1 Tbit lad i* lt;1But,. month- t h .- tm-n the . an-tant. ,iu-pani u .f 1- sin. • 1 .for. Pi* dear that both toy* '.ere o.ner* 01 pi-l .l-, ami .ere abundantly supplied with atouiuoilion. It i*al-deni that Kartn-l Tayhr and lt;ha*. Spricg wet.- together Wrdn.-.l,. evening, md no doob! eel-t tlul I 1111.-I •. 1 dentally iliot himself 01 ||,a l .a .'-pring I * serf* lent hot IPm. ’liie Spiin- fc.v, how-trap give* -ml. confuted, '.Iktory and l*wii.ledng arc-mut- lilM u too ran he placed up .u hi- -‘xtrmeiit-MCh. i xud r.k. «i*e a-,.,1 andibat they have no l.nowleJge of ine tragedy, rxcepl that lien i„ the public in liuding h* bjdr, and -»r ir that lt;imrlr- |r. their knowledge, wa. not -or. of the bouse that -vetting. ||e r.a* arrested, however, Thure-IV fjren.»«u and pltu-ed .1, the Mar-hal's tiOire. A thorough Starch wa . made ..n the premise- of the v;rir^ family lor pi*to! andbar wa* missed, but heard no pistol ehoC money, he returned to Leavenworth, where Mr. Flora *wcm arwl .xamined.-I wa* hi. wi£ had conUaued to rre.de, ■*lt;*»» , t, cd work 00 another railroad. Day beforepitting on my from |**rch and beard ihe re- j,c jeft bome for bu accustomedI tort of a pirtol beittw H and 'J o clock in avocation, and when be returned at nigbt be the treniog; I -uppoeed tbe ehot was fired , found bis bouse and bis little firl threedown in the alley; it area in a. direction of £■» ft. *tile «£«._ .... , , r- three dollar* in money were missing. lt;athe place where tbe body re found; Eruari, ^ ,Mrl)ed lba, tber had I opt herTaylor wis in my lot at 6 o'clock that even-• taken the train for Karen* City, whither be ing. plaving nth my boy*. 1 hid followed. Could the ofEcen areist himlive on tbe north aide of Onge, between and he would hare nothing further toSeventh and Broadway, opposite Spring's; do with her.aaw Ernret Tavlor Wednesday evening, Sergeant Fay man look a description of the .too.T.'do.ch. .h.Kand ret down on a keg; he met CW Spring Nraca ,nd k . lhor1 ume foundthere and went away with him when I rew it, owner 00 Walnut atreet, and pointed her them laat they were in the alleT near out to McKeace, who immediately walked upSpring’.; 1 didn't ree tlww. after dark; it: lie child.^ , . So, you ve come after me, have von?wa* dark when I «i« them, there wm» an- |||lind Ibv McKeeoe.otber boy along witb thrm, but 1 don’t know “ I'm afitrr ibia boy.” murned tbe «b« kt wms 1 raw Cba». Spring vlking , aenior male McNeece. “ I don’t vranl you, out with hi* mother hetwrer C and 7 o’clock; and wouldn't hava your . . , , _ .. . lk. ... From ttu* amiable beginning tbe nappythi* wa* before he went to the alley with ^pi, Uplt;pJ in(0 M pdreTJonvereatirii. Eme*t Tayluat I heard a report o' a piatol ^hich latwd until they reached lire S’. Xich-tha! rvening; I think abunt dark, a half | olaa. They retired to one of the room* hour or hour after I *aw Ernest Taylor; I *ke», there i* good reason to believe, after . , 1. a reason of mutual recriminstios, a compro-,a- at the store, a. tmg .re the porch; ^ hlchrf ad lbeU.e hot nounded in the alley j fcft for Leavenworth in the evening Kama* on the other aide of the -treet; I didn't see City BuHttin, May 30th-the iljsh; it sounded to me like it was at j . ~ .♦ _____the Sack end of Spring1* lot; I rew where the [ 11 l' ® RAILROAD,body lay; tbe shot wa* not where the body !was fouDd; there boyi were together fre-' Surrey of the new Lina from LawrBnce queatly and seemed friendly; 1 live about i to Lemveaworththirty yards from Spring'*.Fred. (*rarer (Worn and erammed: I knowEmeat Taylor, aaw him the day before the decoration near Tamer Hall, about six o’clock in the evening- no one was with him; be had some cartridges in bis pocket beWe are gla.1 l j j ubli-h the l*ct that the Leavenworth, Lawrence A Galveston liail-road Company i* taking *tepa to extend the roid from Lawrence to Ltavenwufth according to tbe term* of the charter. The negoti-■howed me hia piatol, said he gar. four dol-; Wtoos Le,wwc tbe L|L.4o, ini Kanaaa Ur. for it: U wa. a small pistol, turned to one ; Pjeific wUic!l Wl.re inJu,UUsj by Senator ride, bad a cartridge in it; the box was p«W j Caldwell have been abandoned, because tbe board, filled with cartridge*, oblong -haped ■ Kin-a- Pacific demanded more for the box 1 don t know t. ha*, spring. I branch than it would coat to huld a new read.Mr*. M. K. Haynes*woro and examined: Therefore the Ireivenwarth, Lawrence A 1 didn't xnow Ernret Tavlor. rew him once • ,jjTrton Company i. reeking an independ-or twice; 1 live in Arkansas, on the M. Fran- eRl p,„|e from Eiwrence to this rity. Day ci* river, at the Brown plantation: am here | fure Tra,orj,v Col. C. C. Smith, one of the visiting Mr*. Spring, who is my mother , engineer* of the road, examined a new route,-ntra-.irli-III*lie piatol* loiind, inn die piatol* li.i ! i. ■1 harle*.Later in the day minister of the M. I., ixmgngalion tl:-- pri ing it to he hi* dice i inasmuch a* lh *. 1-alied at the ho'l-e. i lory accoant .if the vf do inteilig. myrierr * lie thin Spring, received *Charles ail Ihe pistolundin.'idledPoliceII.-*.).- d•dire.I lhali.ii-1 I.. Kuler, .ulh, to whrw y belong*, feel-^a'e ilie affair, i in 'he family, r, I u iti«fac-• In ' o-reivedpenetrate the Ir»gii i vvnLh .V, t liarYlt; punier*, and.'•*- Iiv whene.1 lhal he w.-- . fired, nml *a»* I rnM was .-limbing tik- fen e, and when lie fired Ihe pistol he threw il bar!. Uiwarab him, and he look it and hid it up -Mir* under the - door, (opposing If ai Erne*' had tired hi* pistol in play and had -one home. He declared :o the mint*i.-r that he didti’i know I’rnest was dead uuiil niomin*. Ii uiu*t he ren.l-lacred that (’iiarlesSpringditiied per-l«!ently a the police r.f having any knowlrdge of he pi.-loL The ah-enre of a pistol f.olu ll-.e fide .if the dead 1**1.' ura* lie* lt;, iroilm-tan'-e exciting an*pieion a* I :w n. .nuer of be death.Alter thi* -latemew oificei* Mai in- and ibeelian, tbe Rev. Mr. Rader and a re-•ort.rofTur Tnrrs v. itevl Mrs. Spring's loire and laund ilic pi-t .l under tbe d.ior ip wain, bavin* been placed tbert- lliroiiglilt; uarle* didn't leave the house that evening, except to go with hi* mother down Fifth street ■ thev went away about four o’clock and returned about five o'clock ; Charley remained tl.e house or in tbe yard after that: mother ‘ punishing him for disobedient*, keeping him a* it were a prisoner, that i* kept him tbe house or yard until six o'clock ; 1 went down town al six o'clock ami came hai-k at abuut aim- o’clcsk; Charley wa* then in lied, dre-wtal, i do not know whether he was playing with Tavlor1* boy after six o’clock; Charley made no -galeuieni to me until the LuJy wa. found, llieu In- .said he did not Louw Erne*! nan dead: I knew nothing of the J, ad body until a negro hoy told inr: thi- was about 7 o'clock Thnreday morning. The boy said “he lire very aUlL J believe he is •lead. Then 1 [bought it wa* » liariee, and ran and told mother, and mother nine down anJ f uinl il waa Ernest Taylor'.* body; tbe place where the body wn found was not used a* a ps-.uge way; we keep a light burning every night; my mother is an invalid; 1 did not know that the pistol waa under the floor;I am t’harle- Spring's sister.lhjialy Marshal Wm. Robert* iw,«u and examined Major Taylor came to the Police office anJ refmrted that hi* ion was missing ahiut .s o’clock; about fifteen minutes after ft a boy rani, down to the office and said that Emo*t Taylor had been found dead; I went up there, hut found no pi*lol; I went in the huo* ■ and found Charles Spring up stairs; had him lt;-ime down and questioned him; lie raid he had not seen Ernest “inoe about 4 o'dia-li lleiliv before; that he lie ami Er-nret were intimate—were sworn friemtf; a Smith .v «V.-*-on pistol wa* given to me I7 the family; the piatol had no cylinder in it;1 sin* Charles Spring down to the office; there were three p!*tol-i found altogether — twosinglf-harrelied pistols and one cylinder; the |ia-tor of thr M. E. Church South found out from Spring that one of tbe pistol* had been *ecreted under the floor of tbe second ,ry of Mrs.Spring's bou*. Dr. Van Dnyn found the oilier pistol.Ofiirer Mat. Malone sworn and examinod —Major Taylor called at the Police office and requested me to look for bi* boy - said be wa* missing: coming down 1 met Charles Spring who said Ernest Tavlor had been found, and wa* dying or dead; 1 the Iv y walked along with me, and we met J at Ms- Taylor, who took hold of my hand and J said, My poor hoy ia dead 1 said this boy j*-5ay«he i'not dead yet; Yes heisdcid,-' say* , ^ Maj. Taylor, ihe doctor’* sen say* so;'' . m We went together in a hack to Maj. Taylor’s j J house; 1 1 hen went to the house of Mrs. g-Spring, and made inquiries of the three ( ladies whom I found there about the body 1 being found: I gained very little informs-| tion from them; Lari nigbt ahoul 7 o'clock ,anJ reports it altogether a feasible one. lie wa* in the city yesterday morning, but returned to I-iwrmre, making a re-survey on hit return. It is tbe opinion of the engineer that the route he came over day before yesterday is much superior to the present route of the Kansas Pacific, and that a road built upon it would avoid heavy grades, and at the same time pas* through a fertile and densely settled dislrlft of lounlry.We have the information, indirectly however. that the Kama* Pacific Company places a higher value on the road froui Lawrence to Iawvenworth since tbe completion of the Raima- and Missouri bridge and .,|«ning of the Chicago, Rock l*land and Pacific road to this city, aud hence i* nit willing to negotiate with liie view of an absolute sale to the l*eav-enwortii, lawrenco A (ialveston Company, or in fact to any other company.MEDICAL.JNO. 13.mm.TA imfTT.TBTTS ODBASTUr.HOFBBEVS' HOMEOPATHIC M'EC iritflPi—III «rl«wt and Itrli Bari rainily Medicine* inRetiaWe. Tbc-y 1• I be __________ mpte llul____cannot fce made tnaMrgtSien.. -c liirmI— as to be dree trom dsncer. and eo ctT. : - : »-to bo adways relisb'.e. They h»»e receive I lbe Ugbetl commendation frcm lbe !b»un::ll* --bn tare long need and known Ibcm. end wot alwaja render Miistection to thOM who try tbem.No. Csrva MviaAon. rent*1. ” Feverm. Ccngeoiiar. lnrinmnwtlone. * * - Win*! Worm Fever, Worm Colic 4S X “ Crytwe-Collc or Teelblng of I item* T «. Marrmriw of Children or Ada l» 25 “ ‘ ' —..... ..ASX Sick neadacbe. Vcitigo. Dilicnii Stomei b .. 25- ftopprroocal or IrrcnUr I'crioca . *5'• White* too Profile Period*.....S5t'rawp. i.'cmgfa. Iltfficail Breatblrr 35 Ern|iltona aril Itbeum. Erj.i; ..»» .*5 :e!i-nmaltw—. Rheumatic 1‘a.r.* . . S I ever * Ague. Chlil Fever. Agnn 5UJ'.t.e |t:,nd orIdeeilln* .. .. I'lUatanj. end bore or Weak n,r.-*..j50• i.irrb, cinteor rhronte. Inlla.’: ra iO :„o|iiaic-eoacri. violent n,u*li*.5'r• - .rna. oj.prvMcd Itreaibinr M. lUrhwrgew. impaired hc.r i;j. tc1 ofulw. Enter-v.l 1,llr.iiftwetiiuga.SD ... lt;irral I- bil,:r. Phr*:ral WralxcS ilr..|MV mid Scanty Srrrc lion* ...W s i» sit linraa, s,-:.---.- i-om Itiiir; ;■«* Icidurf tllccae'-. 'ivrilNrrvowo Dcbiltt) i .Seminal IBscbarrr* . 1 ■Surf tMoialla. • eokcr. . . toiSOi on , .'rfiCrkeral'cd Sor._________,Pnce !ta Tiala. larjesire ....SOr and ! Ur k'AMILT CASES, im Jferocvo, arKA Si large 3 dram riel*, containing the above lilt, with book of direr tioua complete, j: j 00The river i- still rising at El, I |lt;aii.t. and Omaha.The luriuw gauge is nearing Wm, In-ter —only a few miles away. A week of favorable wextlier will end llic engim- into the town.In paper cue. with book...
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Leavenworth, Kansas, US
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