Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 15, 1920, Page 5

TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1920. BROTHER-IN-LAW JAILED. FOR MURDER OF VETERAN Body of Man Wounded Twice in France Is|EX-Y ANK JILTED Found on Bank of River; Circumstances| Point to Supposed Friend as Slayer | SUNDANCE, Wyo., June 15.—Twice wounded while fighting a! ruthless foe overseas for his country’s and humanity’s sake, Laben M. Woods, 32, survived to return to peace-blessed Wyoming to be shot down from behind with his own gun, it is believed in the house of a relative by marriage whom he thought to be his friend. The brother of his dead wife, Frank Hickey, is in the Crook county jail here, charged with the cowardly assnassina- tion. He is to be arraigned June 26} for preliminary hearing. Crook county. rarely in recent years| has been so stirred by a crime as by} the murder of Woods, a volunteer who} fought gallantly that the world might be made safe for democracy, and there is in popular demand from one end of the county to the other that no dili- gence or expense shall be spared that the murderer may be brought to jus- ti Hickey maintains that he is in- nocent, but damning circumstantial evidence points to him relentlessly. Woods’ body was found May 26 on the bank of the North Fork of the Lit- tle Missouri river, fifty miles from this place and one of the most isolated lo- alities in the United States. He had returned from abroad April 25 and aft- er visiting for a few days at the home! of his sister, Mrs. Grellinger, on Skull, creek, neap Upton, Weston count hadj gone to the home of Hickey, whose sister he married several years ago, Mrs, Woods died not long after the mar- riage. Woods had a homestead near the Hickey place, and was employed by Harold Sult, a neighbor, it 1s said, in the capacity of “stock detective’—an | eniployment very significant in the; range country where the “rustler’’ still} flourishes. Soon after he went to the Hickey ranch Woods disappeared. It was be- lieved that he had drowned while ford-| ing the*North Fork. Discovery of his; saddle in the mud of what had been| the river bed at floodtide did not bear out this theory, however, for two rea- sons—first, because a havy stone had} been lashed to the saddle, apparently} for the purpose of sinking it in the river, and second, because the horse) on which the saddle would have been cinched had their owner drowned while fording the stream, was discovered in the Hickey pasture, securely imprison- ed there by three barbed wire fences. The discovery of the saddle was fol- lowed by days of searching along the} banks of and in the North Fork in the} hope that Woods’ body would be found. Sheriff Hurtt and residents of the sparsely populated district made what they thought was a minute hunt thru} thé entire section, buit without result. Eventually all abandoned the search| except Mrs. Grellinger, who had come) from her home sixty miles distant over- land, and oné or two others whom ‘slic induced to persist. On May 26 the sis- ter’s perseverence was rewarded—grew- somely, Woods’ body was found on the bank of the river near the Hickey home. The man had been murdered by a shot from behind, the bullet passing through his body and lodging just un- der the skin of his breast. The corpse apparently had been dragged to the swollen stream, assumably for the pur- pose of casting it in, but that it had not been put into the stream was indi-+ cated by a significant fact—the dead man's hat lay on the shore of the/ stream a few yards from his body. | Suspicion, which previously had} pointed to Hickey, was intensified by} these discoveries. Further investiga- tion’ revealed that Hickey was wearing « mackinaw coat and soldier shoes and | shirt which had been the property of Woods. Extraction of the bullet from Woods’ body established that it was of the same caliber as that of Woods’ gun, and of the same type as Woods used} After you eat—always use | EATONIC (FOR YOUR STOMACH'S SAKE) one or two tablets—eat like candy. Instantlyrelieves Heartburn, Bloated Gassy Feeling. Stops indigestion, foodsouring, ting, h H jeand the many caused by Acid-Stomach EATONICis the bestremedy, it takes the harmful acids and pea rgte out of the body and, of course, you get well, Tens ofthousands wonderfully benefited. Guaranteed to satisfy or money refunded by core own drug- gist. Costa trifle. “Please try it! in that gun. The scabbard of the gun| was discovered at Hickey’s but the weapon could not be found. Hickey was unable to give convinc- ing or logical replies to the searching questions which were put to him. His explanation of the presence of Woods’ horse in his pasture, for example, did} not explain. He suggested that the ani- mal might have returned to the place after its master’s death because it had been fed oats there. How, if this were so, it had managed to get thru three fences, he could not ex- arrest was the sequel of his own story and the circumstantial evi- dence pointing so insistently to him, and if bound over at the preliminary hear- ing to be held late in the month he will face trial for his life. What was the motive for the mur- der, what took place when the mur- der was committed, are matters at this time purely of surmise unless the au- thorities possess information which they have not divulged. It logically is assumable, however, that Woods, a tock detectiv: became possessd of evidence of rustling--may actually have apprehended a rustler at his ne- farious work—and that it becarne ad- visable for the criminal to put him out of the way in self-preservation from | the results of lawlessness. Woods was born at St. Francis, Kans., and came to this region when six years { age. He worked on ranches in oming, Montana and North Dakota, and@ was one of the best known cow- poys of the Little Missouri country. He ved with the artillery overseas and was twice wounded in action. Three brothers—one of whom, Frank Woods, is a resident of Denver—and five sis- ters survive him. The circumstantial evidence against Hicke so strong and even his rela- tives regard him askance. His aged mother, it is said, fears guilt will be fastened upon him. His disposition, it is charged, has been brutal since child- hood. He is alleged to have abused his father, and it is related that he beat is brother with a gun, inflicting inju- which may have been responsible for the fact that the victim of the as- sault later became insane. Don’t try to bake bread, cake and pies .these warm days, Try buying these at the Wigwam and you will give up baking during the summer months. —The Wigwam. faa Tribune Want Ads bring results, BARGAINS IN USED CARS 1 Chalmers. 1 Dodge, 5-passenger. 1 Four-passenger Hudson Speedster. 1 Seven-passenger Stude- baker. All of these cars in ex- cellent running shape. Will sell on time or trade for real estate. 1 Two-ton Diamond T. 1 314-ton Diamond T. 1 FWD. 1 1-ton International. We have some good used trucks on hand and plenty of work for same. Will sell on monthly pay- ment plan. If interested call. Will trade for real estate. ASK FOR MR. FRICKE R. N. 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