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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1901
Page
14
In a tense confrontation Parker and Jack face Foster after a treacherous plan unravels. Foster, remorseful yet eager for escape, is challenged by Parker, who vows to expose the murder and secure justice as Jack departs toward France.
In the York March Assizes Richard Parker faces murder charges in the Bellingham case. The trial unfolds with Parker’s charm contrasted by ties to a gang led by Foster and the dramatic role of his sweetheart Mary Lockwood as key witness. The narrative follows witness testimony at Heatherbell Inn and at the Star and Garter as Parker clings to Mary and refuses flight.
In a grim courtroom scene, Jack Meadows faces tough questions about the murder of Stephen Bellingham. The exchange centers on Mary Lockwood, the Heather Bell Tavern visit, and alleged messages to the prisoner at the bar. The judge admonishes both sides as Meadows resists implying guilt or involvement.
Mrs A L Hazard of Ravenna Nebraska died by her own action in the Loup River. Manager Hazard a Burlington railroad man tracked her steps in the snow from the house to a mill dam four blocks away where her shawl lay. Body recovered at daylight about fifty feet below the shawl site. Cause attributed to nervous trouble. she was fifty one.
A man about 40 identified as Edward D McCoy deliberately lay on a Frisco railroad track in Wilmot Kansas and was struck by a freight train. Coroner Holcomb deemed the death a suicide. Found nearby were his hat coat notebook 35 cents and an employment bureau card. He was six feet tall 160 pounds with blue eyes a reddish mustache and a week’s beard.
The man killed by Deputy Sheriff Patterson of Lead, South Dakota after robbing Ed Wood in Galena is partially identified as Jerry Kelly. A Cripple Creek labor union card found with him was unsigned and undated. The body remains in the undertaking rooms for ID. The third man who escaped is at large and Patterson is exonerated.
Editorial writer Francis Keaugh of a New York paper was shot by Alexander Horr a bookbinder and printer. Keaugh is in Bellevue hospital in critical condition and Horr was hospitalized for identification by Iveaugh who said you are the man who shot me you are an anarchist and publisher of anarchistic literature.
A December 12 blaze leveled the Fifth Avenue hotel in Ford City Pa. One man named Dumont is missing and feared dead after jumping from upper floors. Several employees and guests were injured but expected to recover as rescuers found Dumont’s charred remains in the ruins.
A petition to enjoin Secretary Gage from disbursing $2,000,000 in the treasury for the purchase of Kiowa Comanche and Apache lands was filed in the district supreme court. Petitioners include Delos K Lone Wolf and other Kiowa members.
Acquitted fifteen year old Gertrude Simpson of Creede Colorado faced the murder charge for shooting and killing her father Dr A N Simpson coroner of Hinsdale county on November 15. Defense claimed abuse and threats of death from the father.
Webb City swindlers exposed at Fort Scott Kansas involve attorney Meredith aiding prosecution. He filed details of a October fraud where he delivered seven thousand dollars in drafts to Webb City banker J Bo Stewart who is under federal indictment. Buck Foot posed as stakeholder in a cattle loan scheme. money loaned and not repaid, drafts honored, suit anticipated.
Prof Lucie S Blake of Lawrence Kansas has disclosed a new gold extraction process and granted rights to a Topeka headed company led by C B Greed. New York capital partners join the board. The venture plans experimental work in Sonora Mexico with the process claimed to lower refining costs.
Mell Meyers a young farmer in the northeast Smith County Kansas killed himself with a shotgun after borrowing the weapon from neighbor Charles Bowers claiming a rabbit hunt. Bowers accompanied him briefly before Meyers sent him away and then shot himself.
Sheriff Swedenburg of Salina Kansas received word from Dallas police chief Sterling Price that outlaw Sol Temple, wanted in Kansas and Oklahoma, was captured in Dallas. Temple escaped Pond Creek jail October 15 by deceiving jailer Rev Hatfield. He faces warrants for highway robbery and horse stealing in McPherson Kansas and Guthrie and Woodward Oklahoma. escaped from McPherson jail April 22 1899.
A former inmate of the Soldiers Home at Leavenworth is found in the Missouri River near Quin-daro on the Kansas side. The body wears a Soldiers Home uniform and is identified as Patrick Dugrue, No. 962, of Company I, 18th Iowa Infantry who had been missing since last Saturday.
James Boden a Southern engineer was killed when his engine derailed near Pittsburg Kansas while taking water. He was caught in the cab and cooked by steam. fireman Will Van Pelt was badly scalded in the wreck near Pittsburg.
In the district court William Busby received life imprisonment for the murder of W D Coale near Elwood Kansas. Geo Lang and his son Howard Lang were each sentenced to twenty one years and twenty one years respectively for the same killings involving Carl White.
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