Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1911 — ATTENDED WAYNE FUNERAL AT MEDARYVIĹE SUNDAY. [ARTICLE]

ATTENDED WAYNE FUNERAL AT MEDARYVIĹE SUNDAY.

Rensselaer. The families of Robert Drake, Wash and Simon Cook and Charles Bussell, of Hanging Grove township, aißo attended the funeral. Mrs. McGinnis was 23 years'of age and her husband a year her senior. Their baby was a year old. The bodies came from Colorado Springs by express pnd the caskets were opened upon arrival. The bodies were badly mangled and unrecognizable except for- the clothing and some identification marks. Mr. Wftyne was the

most mangled by the blow from the as> used in the six murders. He hadbeen stuck across the face and head and it was all mashed ip. The wife and child had, been struck more in the back of the heads. Owing to the condition of the bodies the burial took place Sunday morning and the funeral was not until that afternoon. All three bodies were placed in the same grave, a cement vault constructed for them. The burial and funeral were largely attended and members of the Modern Woodmen lodge were there In large numbers.;- Mr. Wayne was a member of that order and carried SI,OOO insurance. It is expected that this insurance ban be collected by this widowed mother of Wayne. *; ?

Relatives at Medaryville telegraphed the officials at Colorado Springs to ascertain if Wayne had any enemy there who might have com-, mltted the terrible crime. They were informed that he had. not but seemed to be on good terms with everyone. The murderer of the Waynes andMrß. Burnham and her two children has apparently made his escape, as no evidence has been procured to link the name of Burnham with the crime The motive is also a'mystery. ■ Qf the removal of the Waynes from Medaryville to Colorado Springs the. Advertiser Bays:’ ' V Frank Wayne went to the Modern Woodmen Sanitarium at Colorado Springs about nine months ago, he being threatened wltb tuberculosis. From the very beginning the treatment and the climate seemed to bene fit' him and he gained steadily in weight. Being warned by his physicians that a return to Indiana might again bring on his ailment, he instructed his wife, who had been living here all this time; to sell their

belongings at public sale, which she did. Frank arrived here unexpect l about "five weeks ago to help make arrangements for the removal of hia wife and baby to Colorado Springs and about four weeks ago left for that place \Vith the intention of making their permanent home there. , !