The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 2, 1890, Page 3

MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD. j BATES COUNTY National Bank, | His Daughter Shot Down in Kansas City. { BUTLER, MO. THE OLDEST BANK TH LARGEST AND THE ONLY NATIONAL BANK); IN BATES COUNTY. +0 ee The lovely little suburb of Kan- sas City, Kan., Riverview, was the scene last night ofa terrible trage- dy which may culminate in the death of three persons. L. B- Myers, employed in a brick j yard in this city and living at 3202 | East 16th street, has a beautiful wife 5 whom he has been separated | for the past three weeks. She has { | $125,000 00 j ae es been boarding with her uncle, Ben- CAPITAL, Seed ae z URPLUS, - - %25.000 oo | amin Van Horn, who resides xt 723 b) ee hoor | Lyons ayenue, Kansas City, Kan., eS ies : on i | with his wifeand daughter. F.J. TYGARD, - - - president” Z ife and daugt tex a HON.J.B. NEWBERRY, Vice-Pres.| At” o'clock last evening Myers | j.C. CLARK = “ Cashier | Went to the police station and ssid: | : ———— “T want to recover a wom Wasnt | Vime Table. can you do for me?” To ch the| L. & S DIVISION. reply was given: “We canuot make | TRAINS RUNNING NORTH. a wife live with her husband unless = 4 ¥ ” | No. 304) passenger 4:47 @ ™m- | she wants to. | 312, local 37330 “pas : « 302,passenger 3:15 p.m.| Myers then left the police st | f TRAINS RUNNING SOUTH. and proceeded.to the Van H« | No. 30t) passenger 12:30 p.m.fidence and arrived there at 7:5 100 “ : . a 3 Maatoges ee « | going in at the east door. He said: f ; “Iw ge to see Louisa,” his wife. | Mr. Van Horn replied: “she is in| the kitcher. . Shake hands, Abe,” but Myers replied: “I guess I won't | shake hands with you this this time.” Van Horn answered, ‘Well, you St. L. & E. DIVISION. No. 343 mixed, leaves 6:45 a.m. «344 “arrives 3:25 p.m. E. K. CARNES, ‘Agent. EH, TUCKER, DENTIST, W. DEERING: =RS R.R. DEACON REAPERS. ACGLE HAY-RAKES & TWINE. Blasted Open a Geyser. . Murphy, proprietor of the! ae springs, on May 14 made an experiment that gave birth toa |first- -class geyser. Some distance to lhe northward of the bath house | j was the dry basin of an old hot spring jin which there has been no water for fifteen years. This basin was about 12 feet deep and nearly a rod square. Mr. Murphy caused a hole to be drilled in the bottom of it to the depth of some 12 feet. He then} inserted a pipe in the hole in the bot-| tom of which were placed s giant powder. When the e¢ was fired it shook the whole cou: and in an instant a column of a foot in diameter was shot upward | \to a height of about 60 feet. | For several minutes there was a | ragniticent ¢ sp of fell a hundred | The col- Da. J. S. PEMBERTON, oF Artanta, Gas Is. celebrated dealer In Proprietary medicines of his ow id: had a st severe attack of i which brought me é MOWERS’ geyser, from thet which, umbrella- -like, sprays of steaming water. jurnn of water was shot zreat roaring, ¢ he ever offel fe i ‘The Doctor refused #0010 say as much for an- other remedy. voluntary. a aunnuTT. nueva CURE team were i however, the falling filled up the old basin, and as the depth in it in- creased the spouting column decreas- ed height. Even witha depth of 12 feet of water to contend agi the; column of water rose toa height of eight or nine feet.—Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise. atin ae yarticul Addr. a Net MEDICINE CO., Atanta, Ga. hinst, Potter Bros. BRICK LIVERY STABLE. An ample supply of Judge Gantt was born in Putnam |county, Georgia, October 27, 1845, and is therefore nearly 45 years of need not if you don’t want to.” Myers went into the kitchen and commenced talking to his wife and BUTLER, MISSOURI. t Office, Southwest Corner Square, over Aaron Hart's Store. ended by saying: “I’m going to kill you.” He then drew his revolver. é gee SA Van Horn, who was standing by, NORTON. grabbed him by the right arm and J. H. f said, “Don’t shoot, Abe,” and “Lou- |) Attorney-at-Law. |isa, run.” Ofice, North Side square, over F. Barnhardt’s} “Well, d—n you, I'll shoot you,” Jewelry Store. said Myers, and he held the revolver 3, Wro. JACKSON, to Van Horn’s breast and fired. Van Horn fell to the floor. Mrs. Myers ran out of the house into the yard. Myers followed into the front room, thinking his wife had run up stairs. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Butler, Mo. - Office, South Side Square, over Badgley Bros., Store. sented asickening sight. Van Horn | was lying on the steps of the house | bleeding to death from a wound through his right lung. His daugh- ter lay in thefront room on the floor suffering intense agony from a bul- house and dressed the wounds. King was asked his opinion of the effect of the wounds He said: he Van Horn residence, which pre- let wound near the heart. \ Dr. “Mr. Van Horn was hit in the cen- were alive, but is thought Van Horn | cannot live until morning. The bul- lets were extracted and the wound- | ed persons put under the influence | of opiates. lived at Burdette, in this county, at which place he ran a blacksmith Dr. W. P. King, chief surgeon of \shop. He moved to Kansas City tke Missouri Pacific, and Dr. C. J. Hutchinson soon arrived at the An Accidental But inexcusable Kall- Buggies, Carriages, Phaetons, Drummer Wagons, &c. age. He was educated in private schools until, at the age of 16 years, he entered the confederate service in the Twelfth Georgia regiment, and served with it throughout the war, being in Rhode’s diyision under Stonewall Jackson. He was wound- ed twice at the battle of Gettysburg and once at the battle of the Wilder- ness; was disabled at the battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864, from which his leg has since suffered. Judge Gantt began the stedy of law at Macon, Ga., in 1866, and graduat- ed 1868 from the University of Vir- ginia. He came to Missouri in 1868 [Old man Van Horn formerly several years ago. This i is one nat the best iene Sta- bles in this section of the state. Frest Crass Ries Forstraen. HIS PLAYMATE DID IT. At any hour, day or night on the ing at Nevada. most reasonable terms. Farmers Carvin F, Boxiry, Prosecuting Attorney. CALVIN F. BOXLEY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Butler, Mo. Will practice in all the courts. ARKINSON & GRAVES, ATTORNCYS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, over Lans- down’s Drug Store. AGE & DENTON, ATToRNEYS AT LAW, Office North Side Square, ‘over A. L. McBride’s Store, Butler, Mo. Phvsicians. J. R. BOYD, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Orrick—East Side Square, over Max Weiner’s, 1g-ly But1erR, Mo. He started up the stairs and met Miss Carrie Van Horn coming down stairs screaming. He shot at her, hitting her in the left breast, and said: “stop screaming.” Then he started out the back way, smoking revolver in hand, and met Van Horn, who had got up, and said: “D—n you, I'll kill you.” “Abe, you have killed me,” he an- swered, and again fell to the floor. Myers then jumped over the back fence and ran up the alley to Cen- tral avenue, down Central to Sixth street and from there to Reynolds avenue. Several persons in the meantime joined in the chase. Of- ficer W. J. Butler and Nelson Ghin- ese were running side by side. When at the corner of Lyons and Fifth street Myers threw his right arm over his left shoulder and fired at the pursuers, the ball hitting Nel- son Ghinese on the right leg be- tween the knee and hip. This did not stop the pursuers, who chased the fleeing man to the electric light plant, where he threw his revolver away and ran over the Missouri Pa- cific tracks. In attempting to jump over a ditch he fell. R. Gay, who was in pursuit, jumped onto him and commenced pounding him. A second later Ghinese and Butler were both upon Myers, adding their blows. By this time seventy-five men had gathered ai the scene, when a yell went up. ~Get a rope!” “Hang him to a trestle!” “Kill him!” A man in the crowd went for a rope. In the meantime everyone DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office, front room over P. QO. Ail calls answered at office day or night. Specialattention given to temale dis- eases. T C. BOULWARE, Physician and e Surgeon. Office north side square, Butler, Mo. Diseases of women and chil- ren a specialty. J.T, WALLS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office, Southwest Corner Square, over Aaron Hart’s Store. Residence on Ha- vannah street norrh ot Pine. ter of the breast, the ball passing around the right side and came out at the spinal column near the shoul- der blade. The wound is fatal. Car- rie Van Horn was hit near the base of the heart, the ball ranging up- ward and lodging under the left shoulder blade. Her case is very critical.” Mr. Van Horn was asked to make an ante-mortem statement, which was as follows: “I was sitting at the east door when Myers came up and I offered to shake hands with him but he refused. I told him that he did not need toif he did not want to. Myers then went into the kitch- en, where his wife was. I went into the kitchen and saw Myers draw a revolver from his pocket. I grabbed his arm and said, ‘Louisa, run.’ | Myers turned around and said: ‘Damn you, I'll shoot you,’ and fired. I fell down and after that I heard my daughter scream.” Mr. Van Horn is 61 years old, a} member of the G. A. R. and has been employed as a watchman at the L road roundhouse. His wife is at present visiting friends in Bates county, Missouri. Caroline Van Horn, a beautiful blonde of 17 years, was next asked to give her statement. She said: “I was at a window up stairs when I heard a shot fired. I came running down stairs screaming when Myers met me and said, ‘Stop your screaming,’ and fired, the ball hitting me in the breast. Ikept on screaming when he saidif you scream again I'll shoot you again. He then turned and ran.” Mrs. Louisa Myers’ was seen and Moissuti Pacific R’y. 2 Daily Trains 2 KANSAS CITY and OMAHA, COLORADO SHORT LINE 5. Daily Trains, 5 Kansas City to St, Louis, who could was beating and pound- ing the fallen man. Two minutes later a rope was secured, but by this time Mr. Reynolds had picked up the revolver and had given it to Of- ficer Butler, who was unarmed. With this revolver he held the mad- dened crowd at bay. The crowd was soon sco subdued that Butler succeeded in getting his prisoner on an L train and took him to the cen- tral police station. A Globe reporter interviewed Myers, who is a short, muscular THE looking man of 48 years. In answer a IVE |to the question “What did you do Sup ea otiretaabinate | the shooting for?” Myers answered: PULLMAN BUFFETT. SLEEPING CARS x as a know as it is any of your Kansas City tg Denver,without change i “Did you: think Sialic ee H. C. TOWNSEND. | shot was your wife?” General Passenge: andTicket Ag’t/ “No; my wife was not there.” ST# LOUIS MO The Globe reporter then visited said: “We have been married several years, living at 1705 College avenue Kansas City, Mo. Three weeks ago Tleft him because of his extreme cruelty. He had frequently beaten me until I was black and blue. He has sent me notes asking me to come back and live with him and has been watching the house. He sent a threatening letterto my un- cle saying that he would come to his ‘house whenever he liked, and that people who meddled with other peo- ple’s business got into trouble.” Mrs. Myers is a fine luoking well- built brunette of 22, and wasmaking jon Sunday. Nelson Ghinese was taken to his | | home aud the bullet was - extracted. | arrangements to return to her home | desiring to put up their horses when in the city will find this§j § barn the most convenient in town. POTTER BROS. DRS- STARKEY & PALEN’S TREATMENT BY INHALATION. plan rede: Nevada, Mo., June 25.—The Cor- oner’s jury in the case of 13-year-old Burt Thomas, whose mysterious death from a gun-shot wound occur- red here yesterday afternoon, brought in a verdict that the fatal shot was fired by the dead boy's playmate, another boy 13 years old, named James Roberts. Young Rob- erts admitted this morning that he fired the shot. He says that while in the house alone together Thomas picked up one gun and he another, and that in fun he drew aim on Thomas and said: “Your money or yourlife,” pulling the trigger as he spoke. The result was the gun was ex- ploded with fatal effect. Young Roberts was released from custody | this morning, his statement of the | accidental character of the affair be- ing generally credited. and located in St. Louis, where he began the practice of law During the following year he moved to Clin- ton, and thence to Sedalia, in which latter city he resided for nearly two years, as’a law partner of Senator Vest and Judge Phillips. He went back to Clinton in 1874, and in 1880 was elected Judge of the twenty- second judicial circuit, composed of the counties of Bates, Henry and Benton. He was succeeded in 1886 by David A. 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