The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 25, 1884, Page 1

— a ADEMON’S DEATH. Wampler Brought Back to Pleasanton Dead. (CHASE IN THE MOUNTAINS. isto Kansas City Journal. 3 Pleasanton, Kas., June 22.—Lew- s Wamp'er’s body arrived in Pleas- gaton in cha deriff of Linn county, Kas., on the go'clock train on the Memphis road this morning. arrived the body was removed to a blacksmith shop on Main street, when a party of men got anvils and fired them off, and this noise and the news soon brought thousands of peo- from every direction. to view the body of the murderer. wasin a2 coarse board box. The fid was removed and ice was placed mthe box around the body. When the body first arrived it was some- what swolen, but was easily recog- naed as that ot Lewis Wampler, by allthose who knew him. The tol- As soon as the train yyofb:s capture: On the same day that sheriff Chandler arrived; trom Vinita and Fort Gibson, where he had been in search of the murderer, | = Fhe RECEIVED A LETTER ofwhich the followimg 1s # copy: Winona Spri Tothe Sheriff of Linn county, Kas., Sm :—The that 1 the murder of the Anderson myour county is supposed to have man family pe passed through this country goimg south. [, Joseph Clark, met the inan at Swain mountain, in Carroll county, Ark., on the iith, and he wanted tobacco. I gave hima chew and Lasked him if he wanted work. He suid he did. I told him if 1 would give me a picce of paper I would send him where he could had testament an wok. He said he no pa ] and handed me 2 me to writeon the fly lea T open ed the testament and t > Was some whiting th I asked him his name and he said Wampler. I said “thatis not the name here. He said “Wampler is not my name;my name is Combs.’’ L had seen count of the murder, and seemed familiar to marked the same to him. thename of Wambler was a Mon name, left 1 home and looked through the papers, ad saw that Wampler was the tame, and the description suited the -Man. I got aman to go with me and we have spent two days Icoking | forhim but can get no further track wthim beyond the immediate neigh torhood. He carries a heavy revol- Yer, wears a narrow brim black hat, ‘badly sunburneed, and wears the | temnants.of a pair of calfskin boots. He is nearly barefooted and foot the name and I Ile said com- came mie, re- and me. tor you. [Signed j JosrPH CLARK. | PB. S.—Any intormation wanted # firect to Winona Springs, Carroll tounty, Ark. } Mutheast of Eureka Springs eight miles. fSigned] 4 Josern CLARK, JOHN WANNAMAKER. THE PURSUIT. Upon recerpt ot this letter and an- other letter trom Louis Wanamaker, inthe same v icinity at the same time, | aad was the other man with Clark | Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gult, a: F Who honted Wampler, Mr. Chandler, | Kansas City. Springfield & Me:mphis after talking the matter over with his : Ranlroads have just issued ane! F legal advisers, concluded to take the | hang attemoon train on the next day (Sun- | tmbutary counties and towns. shay > June 15.) for Arkansas. so. He met Messrs. Clark and Wanamaker, and they followed the | counties tributary te those face and track of Wampler trom “that time until evidence that he was surely on @ track of the murderer of the An-/ tne Msi ngs, Ark., June 13,54, i committe] | rgeof C. H. Chandler, | = | | I \ | 2uC- | i cured a box, and Ins body removed | After ta Anything I can do I will do} Winona Springs is | i i : | to Mulberry. j at Chandler and recogr into the timber, | were on horseback, jin his own | | well. | derson tamily. one place, stole pair ot she cS. Eis dently tight. and over the iustep t s boots were left his boc leather had beep cutin holes. After he put the shoes on he was harder to track. But on June 20, between 10 and 11 o’clock, as Mr Chandler with his two a ssista turned mountain road, right in a hea tainburg, Ark., on the ’Frisco road, they meta ian on foot coming to- ward themr They all from the pho- tograph, and previously having scen him. RECOGNIZED WAMPLER. He came up within eight or ten teet of Chandler and stopped. and Chandler asked him the distance Wampler looked up the sheriff now says that the iock of desperation and terror that came over | planting: although the farmers labor Wampler’s face the instant he rec- ognized the sheriff was terrible. He | ¢inues for the coming two months as | STATE OF MISSOURI, ? ‘, = = ses | STATE MIss : lowng is a true and complete histo-! turned instantly and without saying | a word, ran with the fleetness of terror | grain will be immense. a large revolver from his coat The sher and started in pursuit. “They when he t doand n. art af pler, him and would have s instant Wampler placed ms own pis- | ¢ tol to his upper hp. his Se, and shot hinis e ball eg upe ward and lodving in He lived about one and one-halt hours afterwards but never spoke. No shot fired at Wampler hit him or his 4 clot wits at once summoned by ton a justi tain tow: dered a verdict, stance th After the ver and there by rail to here. IDENTIFIED. Mr. Warner, a farmer and owner to Mountainburg, trom train last night, and on the of the and the body ller in the dead body on the train, and he has since been recognized by every one who knew him here. ATISFACTION. Every-one seems to be glad that Sheriff Chand- ler is more than pleased that neither ot the two shots he fired at him kill ed him. He died the death served is the universal verdict. The excitement has What will be done with n he murdered himselt he subsided. | Wampler’s body is not yet deter- ‘over to ns father who He | map will be to mined. It will probably be turned Is not e yet. The Passenger Department of d ot great v: s ine y one ck nes, and J. will be mailed tree by addressing Friday, June 20,/}E. Leckwood, General Passenger about Tr o’clock. Mr. Chandler} Agent, as he proceeded through the | Mtainous country the more and | Kansas City, Mo. Vernon ‘county The Mail di Hurrin tor Paris VWercury: is solid for Bashaw fat with i ts hile t of He had Jellico route. This road runs throug! seen Sheriff Chandler once before at | the e His body | Trading Post Lynn coudty, Kas., | somewhat broken and in many places way | de- | somewhat | An Interesting Letter From D. G. New-om. CROPS IN THE SOUTH Eprror Times:—Accorc to promise, I endeavor to pencil you the events and observations of our . about eight miles east of Moun- | recent trip through a portion of the kinds lookir Southern States We left St. Louis. Mo., about the 6th inst. over the O. & M. tor Louis- ville, Ky. ville, we On our arrival in Louis- Were immediately trans- | fered to the southern part of the city, | f and got aboard of a train on the ) stern part of Ky., which 1s, very mountainous. j The present growing cropsin that | ed him, and | portion of the State are very back- | ward owing to the late season for | with a view that if the season con- } | it has been for the past, the yield of The truit | nd as he didso drew | crop in Kentucky is a tailure this | I season with the exception of apples. | s sbout a half crop. We Iso traveled through As| soon as we crossed the Ime of east- ! They then fired four shots at Wam- | ern Kentucky we were informed by t R r (Mr. iat we were in old Tennessee. t Ford) cond To t delight we were from the gh tur sell tor some he tened 1 1 seat for a sho time, teat that * he remarked tot thought | dey had to git in hare from de bot- Just at this stage , -* tom of de cz of our conversation the conductor ota ccal mine about nine miles | called out all aboard, and the train northeast of here, upon a telegram pulled out. from Chandler, left on the g o’clock | the mountains, the higher they be- The further we traveled came. In many places there is just down met the train with Chandler | space enough between them for the murderer. | train to pass. Ata certain place on | Wampler worked for Warner, and! this road in Tennessee called the Warner knew him familiarly and | «Devil's Churn,” which is a very | He then regognized Wamp- | high and dangerous looking moun- ltain apparently of solid rock, the 'news boy came through the cars | | distributing circulars notifying the passengers that he had on boird_ for i sale a book titled ‘*The way to God, land how to find him,” by E. F. | Moody.. Atter reflecting upon the | fast hundred miles that we had gone over, and the immediate surrounding | country, we concluded that should an accident occur on the road and unhurt that country. we be left m such a guide would be of great Value to us, so we invested ten cents. a : Crops in Tennessee are more prom- The j ising than those of Kentucky. fruit crop in Tennessee is also a pF State n of the except Atter passing throu the « Tennessee we next iound ourseif on the soil of North C and strange to or, bet nevertheless true, we had not trav- Carolina betore eled m the State of Nerth hour’s t we more than an began to notice the peach and apple trees loaded to their utmost capacity. | | The fruit crop in this state has not been excelled in quantity and quali- | ; | ; ty for the past twenty-five years. ‘The growing crops in this state of , every variety look fine and promises the | P * | appears of r 2 —- - xcell the tarmers otf North happier than those ot ' which we Carol V h 1a owe travelled thre Eastern Here w crop looking well thou backward owing to the ng The trait crop m_ this h somewhat Jate season for planting. State is light. On our return home to Missouri, hrougk the soutl we passed rm part ook out and } of IHinois. Here you may ot the cars in any direction as taras the eye will apparently but fields of wheat, and as fine as we! can reach you discern nothing eversaw. Should nothing unfortu nate occur the immense. wheat yield will be D. GLN. Order of Publication. | Ceuntv of Bates. ’ In the Probate court tor the county ot Bates, May term, 1SS4- : aac H. E Ellis, deceased, fsaac H. Ellis eal estate of said soon | southwestern and eastern portions ot |! deceased as will pay and satisfy the re- gained on him, called him to halt, | Tennessee over the same R. R. debts due by said estate, and yet cient asset made news County o H t Ba dre’ Oo, a :cord in my office. Witness HLAWKINS, of Probate 18S 4. . F. Boxiey, atty for adm?r- 29 4 ADVICE 10 MOTHERS. | Are you disturbed at night and bre ken | of your rest by a sick child suffering and crying with pain of cutting teeth? 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