The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 5, 1884, Page 1

es MURDER AT WINDSOR. 301d Man Assasinated for Mon- ey and Revenge. sespicion Poin hree Young Men who have Disappeard. AMO. Frem the Sedalia Sunday Democrat. Windsor March, rst: Last night our city was thrown into a fever ot acitement and alarm, by the report that Uncle Jobnny Wells had been most toully murdered. The faces ofstrongmen were blanched with consternation and dread, as they re- alized that for the first timein years the lite ot one of their neigiibors had heen taken in cold blood. A body of men were soon gathered together, who proceeded to the scene of the tragedy, Where a tearful sight met their eyes. ©: Stretched out suff and cold im death lay the form of Uncle Johnny, fairly riddled with bullets. Struck dawn without warning, he nad at» least died” heroically. As near as your reporter could gather in details, the facts were in substance as follows: Last night between g and 10 o'clock, Mr. Wells was sitting at his desk, writing, when he heard some one come in the hall door and stop. Thinking that it was -some one of the neighbors, and wishing to hght them into the room, the old man! arose and oper.ed the door. Aw he | did so, a man stepped up to him and leveling a cocked revolver at his head, exclaimed excitedly, **Your money or your life!’’, Almost at the «me instant, and before the old man bad time to’ move, A SHOT WAS FIRED trom the revolver, striking Wells in theneck. Wells sprang inside the room and made an attempt to reach aloaded shotgun which stood in the worner saying to his wite he was shot. | Before he could reach it, howe second shot was fired, and he tell ra powerless. The second shot was also trom ai revolver, and came through a window at the side of the house, the curtain being up. More shots m rapid- succession were then fired by the person in the hall) and the one at the window, until the old man’s bedy was RIDELED WITH SIX BULLE One of these was in the entered the tront of the neck, anoth— er took effect in the breast, near the heart, while three others were in the lower part of the body and the legs. Having effectually settled old Mr. Wells, the murderers came mto the foom and proceeded to the table which was covered with an ordinary tablecloth. This table was always kept covered, and it was the habit of the family to keep under the cloth >» one | man w ; si" BUTLER, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY jeut holes that they mizht sce jand breathe. Further than this no Jone could give any discription. It is the general suposition that the first shot Was premature :that the man had his revolver cocked, and in | Vousness pressed the trigger at the {time same he demanded the money. But when the first shot was fire i. the | man at the window saw that the oid fired and with tatal effect. As soon asit was certain that the | murderers had disappeared, an alarm Was given in the neighborhood, and | word immediately sent to this city, | and a large posse of men was soon! gathered and proceeded to the house. | A examination of the premises and vicinity showed that in the road were the tracks ef three horses. A} shght snow had barely covered the ground, and the tracks wer distinguishable. The theory is that there were three men connected with the affair, and that while two of them procecded on their murderous ra . . 1 errand, the third remained in the road beside the tence and held the horses. It was subsequently discovered that about a mile and a half south of the scene of the tragedy, two horses had been stolen from aman named Smith. It was alsvu learned this morning that last night, just at the breaking up of a roller skating party, which occur- shortly after ten o’clock, two men riding on horse back came through here, with their horses ona lope. Thus tar, no evidence has} been produced to show thac these could have been the same men. As has been stated, old Uncle Johnny Wells was a respectable and este ern cd eitizen of the neighborhood in which he lived. 7 however, some ill feeling against him : { on the part of some young men who | had been reproved by him on account of bad conduct. These young ftel- lows bore bad reputations, and one theory of the people is that they might have cherished and »Srooded over their iJl-feeling toward the old gentleman, to such an extent as to engender a deadly hatred and a de- | yas attuched to the irrigate Potomac | S ha ster, and stationed at Ship Is- | land. 1562 : ansferred to | | for revenge, and that they final- ly took his life to wine out the insult. It is stated on good authority that three of these ,oung men ostensibly started for Colorado, several days j Since, and that this move may have been only a blind, and that they came back and accomplished their revenge. | and then made good their escape. | The theory is at least plausible. Another theory, which prevails to a greater or less extent, is that rob- bery was the object ot the raid- I 3, : ea with the habit of the family in keeping their money under the table cover, and that they sup- posed there was a coasiderable sum considerable sum of money. It soj there. That going there to accom- happened, however, tnaton themight in question there was only a SINGLE NICKEL 4Mthe table. Phe wurderers hasti- lv pulled the cloth off the table evi- dently expecting to find considerable plish the robbery the man who en- tered to awe the mmates became flurried and shot off his revolver by his nervousness, and thus perpetrat nd secured tor the re- ed murder, ward of therr crime cnly a bare mck- Money; but they found only the sol- |. and a watch. tary nickle, and after ransacking the | feom the murderers hastily depart- J ed, taki and puu, which last they broke and thtew the picces into the yard. Atthe tine ot the shooting the were in the room two persons b 3 . 7 Nees the man killed. Uncle Johnny at but recent!'y marned, and his | Wife Was in bed atthe time of the murder, A brotaerof Cacle John-/ tv's was also j Pe shooting commenced he ran out the back door, and it is thought Mereby saved his life: Neither suuld-do anything uguinst the volleys vf lead thac Came from the, revolvers ot the man m the hall and the other atthe window. ‘i Tue murderers both wore raboer | fand buving the butter th ithan R iste chere the cream bim- | Seats butroned cluse up te their chin sod had red handkerehiets tied over heir tuces, through which they had the old man’s watch | the room, but when | The excitement in this town to- Ms ner- s about to get his gun, so he | 2 barely re had been, land graduated i 1860. At the | | ‘IELD S. SCHLEY. | Who will Command the Greely ' Relief Expedition. i HIS RECORD IN OUR NAV Y= | We this week present our readers with the likeness of commander W. S. Schley, of the United States Na- vy, who will have charge of the ex- pedi Arctic regions in search ot the Gree- ly party. Fromthe sad fate ot a ion that will soon sail for the long list of Arctic explorers and re het parties who have gone to the | frozen regions af the north never to return, it willbe readily conceived that he who volunteers his service to penetrate that ice emetery of heroic explorers in search of lost hu- manity or their remains, is a man of that patrioue pravery which com- Te civilized world Upon the tablet! mands the niration ot the whole | which bears the names of a score of valiant Arctic heroes will now be | placed that of Winfield S. Sc and time myest 16 wi the br | accomphshmeut, ot the sad hallo of r sacrifice of human life tor} anoth fellow humanity. Winficid S. Maryland in 1839, and is now in his 145th year of age. He was appoin- ted to the Naval Academy in 1856. | chlev was born in opening ot the Civil War in 186r he | j the Steam gunboat Winona of the i West Gulf blockading squadron, and | | was in all the engagements which led to the capture of Port Hudson, La. So conspicuous was his bra-} very during this conflict that on the 16ti of July, 1862, he was promoted | jt0 a Lieutenancy. Soon he was transferred to the Gunboat Wateree | of the Pacific squadron. m= which! | fers; that the, were mea acquamnt-j he served tor two years during that | | i | period being commissioned as aj Lieutenant Commander. In 1877 | he was assigned to the Naval Acad-—j emy, where he remained an instruct- | or until 1871, when he was transfer- red to the Bernicia m_ the Asiatic | j fleet. After severa! foreign tours | he again returned to the Naval} | Academy for three years, and on; July roth 1874, was promoted to’ ithe Essex on the South Atlantic Sta- | tion dur 1877 and 1878, and day is intense, and threats are freely | Since that time has been variously ; indulged in that should they be caught they would be strung up without cer- | Wen to comn cniony to the nearest tree. Our citi- | Expec Ac the time of his selec- | mdthe Greely relief | service in! | assigned. zens have subscribed the sum of} the Naval Bureau of equipment and } $200 as a reward tor the apprehen- | Wavigatien. ow active— sion of the murderers. and no effort) Commander Schley is a will be spared to bring them to jus- | ly engaged in selecting and organiz- tice. Telegrams have been sent in| img the crew of 150 that will accom- ' i every ¢ c t tives have heen pur the murderers will be soon appre- hended, and the law be delt out te them in all its severity. YT. J. Moore, near Huntingdaie j Henry county, finds that there is more money in selling his cream ‘well. shrewd. detzc- # work, so that he uses ! pany hin and expects to sail en his mission early in April. The expe- dinon i seis, 3 Mr. Sealey will ious waite years absen ileave beb him an 4 ] and interr band = nation that will bid him and {his brave comrades a God-speed and a safe return. H 75 cents, MARCH 5, 1884 | | ij | | NO. 14. = ¢ f hley, i ‘ an ost ith either | x ane of asuccesstul humane AND THE FOR $1 85 FOR SAME PERIOD. _ FHEHORSE’S FRIEND, HARNESS & SADDLERY. BUTLER-——— KEEP THE LARCEST STOCK AT McFARLAND BROS., & MILLS “ANTJOS Gayo Aux ey sayog aoe_d ur sauUpZ Ploy I SYOINS JO SMOY OANQ SULT “YOON $8, 9810}] uv OF FLASH! sysnipy An equal assortment and prices can be found at Walnut IM Sout Spooner’s Horse Collar. = Pat. April 11, 1876. FRONT VIEW. SIDE VIEW ampoesed of three ves- | <b toss rose cb baking powder : sOrhernure. 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