Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1899 — MURDER NEAR KOKOMO. [ARTICLE]

MURDER NEAR KOKOMO.

Hetecr losod, Shot and with Hia Hintl Crushed In. Eoxther Sampson, living on the Jonas Hhrtes farm, six miles southwest of Kokomo. wasj found with his head crushed and a. bullet in his body. At 2 o’clock the other- morning he was awakened by a noise in the yard, aud thinking his cattle had; broken in, he went to drive them awvay. When but a few feet from the dber a masked man stepped out from the -hmbbery and felled him with a sandbag. The assassin then fired a bullet at the fieaaY of the prostrate and unconscious man and disappeared before he could be recognized by the family.