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i I'll *• «l» H'TW »chii lecture each week on tlie subject of mi I nml anatomy which promises to bo very floe.Buy your cultivator at McKinstry's and save money.Brutally Murdered.A. murder* probably the grossest and moat brutal that was ever committed In this county, occurred in this city on Thursday night of last week. Friday morning the body of W C Boyd, pro prletor of the meat market near the court bouse, was found horribly mangled, In a deep ditch about seventy feet behind Ins shop. A deep gash about three Inches lone wm cut diagonally Hcroas the corner of the chin by some instrument thought to be a hatchet, which bad been wielded with such force as to deeply penetrate the the jaw bone. A heavy blow, apparently struck v* ith the side or back of a hatchet or ax mashed in the side of hie head back of his right eye and another, as Dr. Colladay testified, at the in-guest, seeming to have been struck with the back of a hatchet, had crushed in the bsae of the skull at the back side of tbt? head.» ininj input m ins nun lkijother tramps were arrested at Great Bend and brought back here, but their evidence was so straight that they were let go Tuesday muruing. claiming they had left towu Thursday night at 6 or 8 o’clock.Monday Jack Burrell, whose name was mentioned by the county attorney in questioning Mrs. Pusth!*wait, and who Mrs. Fosthlfwalt tesilded was not acquainted with Boyd, was arrested In Kingman and brought here. He claimed he was in Kingman Thursday night and that he could prove it, but a young man named Phillips, who bakes for Campbell's eating house across the street, testifled that he was quite sure be had seen Burrell with another man standing near the First National Bank about 4 o’clock Saturday morning as he was comlug down to his work. Said Burrell had on different bat from what he wore Monday. Burrell once ran a “restaurant” In the same place as Mrs. Post hie wait’s or near there, and also a butcher shop near there. It appears from what we have been told that he and the Posthlc waits have had a good many dealings.Jim Huffman, who works for Ben-
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Hutchinson Gazette
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Thu, May 26, 1898
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