People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — PUT OUT OF THE WAY. [ARTICLE]

PUT OUT OF THE WAY.

Fiends Murder Witnesses Who Were to Have Appeared Against Them. Milan, Mo., May 14. —Gus Meeks, his wife and two children were murdered outright Thursday night near Browning, and another of the children —a girl of 7 years—was so injured that her recovery was doubtful. Meeks was to have testified in a criminal case against William F. and George Taylor. The murdered family were decoyed from their home that they might not appear at the trial.