Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — GIRL AND FATHER SLAIN [ARTICLE]

GIRL AND FATHER SLAIN

Bodies Are Discovered on Farm Near > Topeka, Kan. . Topeka, Kan., Feb. 16.—John J. Rickels, a farmer, aged fifty-four, and his stepdaughter, aged fourteen, were found murdered in a slough on the Rickels farm, eight miles north of here. .The girl had been shot in the back of the head and the man’s head had been crushed by some blunt instrument. i