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m Hit* nase or me skuii hi 1110 uuca side of the bead.The left pocket of the dead man was turned wrong aide out and the other partially so. if he had any money It was lakeu; bo also were his keys, ills pocket knife !uy near the body.The first to find the uody were Oscar Barstow, the barber, and »V.I). Fisher the liveryman, who reported to the police Thlb was about 0*ao Friday ruora lug, and when the coroner came and examined the body it was cold aud stiff, showing that the murder had been committed early in the night. While the two or three men who had found the murdered man were talking, Glen Boyd, his brother and partner in the meat shop, came up and recognized the ghastly remains of his brother. The evidence of the man who first found him. and also of Policeman Monroe, showed that there were several tracks on the east side of the ditch and two on the west side, apparently made oy two men, oue larger than the other, and that the body had evidently been oarried there with the head wrapped in his coat, probably for the purpose of keeping the blood from trailing, for while he had not bled pro-rusely there was quite a pool ot bloc.d where he had lam. The policeman claimed to have been able to track the two men to within about ten feet fromJim fluflcuau, who works for Ben-nett in bottlery. swore that the little boy, Clyde, came over there about a month ago and said that his brother Harry dec! ued that if he ever had any more trouble with Boyd he would do him up, unless he was afraid of getting himself Into trouble.Bruce Shadduok, who used to run the Grand Central Hotel, swore that Mis. Posthlewalt and Burrell bad stayed a week at his hotel as man and wife. Mrs. Posthlewuit in answering this, swore she slept on the floor. Sue also said Boyd wanted to marry her. She further testified that she whs in no way related to Burred, but when he was brought here he swore they were cousins. Both Burrell and Harry Postble-wait have been inmatea of the reformatory.The implement with which the deed wua done has not been discovered. The ouly clue other than those mentioned was a bloody paper found on the north west corner of the same block, on which it is thought the murderer might have wiped his bloody hands.The murder is as mysterious as it was brutul. The murdered man was generally a very qule;, peaceable man, and well liked by those with whom he bad dealings or acquaintance. Public feeling ran so high that it IB certainrli'il il'rliM trill «.*n ailui imf raf ml f lut
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Hutchinson Gazette
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Thu, May 26, 1898
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