People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — STONED TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

STONED TO DEATH.

Brutal Murder of a Colorado Postmaster and His Assistant by Indians. Denver, Col., Oct: 2. Post Office Inspector James A. Small has received a telegram notifying him of the brutal murder of Postmaster H. M. Potter and his assistant, Robert Roberts, at Monitor, Yuma county. But few details of the killing were obtainable. Both men were alive Friday morning, but at noon, when the mail was called for, Roberts was found sitting in a chair in front of the office dead. When the sheriff was summoned he discovered the body of Potter some distance away with one leg broken and the skull crushed in. Everything indicated that the men were stoned to death and it is suspected that the murder is the work of Indians in the vicinity. The post office was robbed of two pistols and a rifle.