People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1895 — HUNTING FOR A FIEND [ARTICLE]

HUNTING FOR A FIEND

TERRIBLE CRIME NEAR GALENA KANSAS. Boy of 19 Kilin Two Brothers and Ai tempts to Assault Their Sistei —Onof the Injured Boys Tells the Story Before His Death. Galena, Kan., April 3. —A most atro clous double murder and attempted criminal assault occurred four mile: northwest of this city yesterday. James Walters and Samuel Cox live on adjoining farms. Cox is a widower, and hit daughter Dully, about 17 yeans old, keeps house for him. Ke l;ad two sons, George and James, aged 19 and 12, living at home. Newton Walters, about 19 years old, son of JA re.: Walters, was evidently infatuated with Dolly Cox, but the latter aid nut erne for him. Yesterday morning young Walterrwmt to the Cox pixie and wan: -d ti e two boys to go to the river with l i.n after ducks. The thr.-e st:.red out, taking a with.them. Mr. Co.: was absent on business and the girl was le'i at the house alone. About noon Walters returned to the house alone ami told Dolly that he and her brother.had <-*ught some young squirrels aa-1 wanted a box to put them in. The girl went into the yard after a squirrel tr. p, and Walters followed her; and. catching her, threw bis arms ar -und her, and pointing a ifi. tol at her, told her that he would kill her. and iftf-»rni«-d her that her two brothers had been killed. The girl begg-'-i’ for her life, and after some parleying maraged to get possession of the i-istol. She threw the weapon away and ran to one of the neighbors, and Walters loft. Word was brouai.t to town and parties left for the scene of the murder. The body of the elder Cox buy was found in a sitting posture against a tree, with a bullet hole in the back of bis head. :L- was aliv..-, but uneunscious. lj? gained con. A-msr.ess be.g enough to <■ 'I t; ;:t young Walters shot him. Near v.iu-ie tl.e o’ :er Loy wmfound were *ia;is where the younger boy had be n shot, and the body driig.z'rl to the river an.l thrown in. The body l::.s not been reecv red. l’i sses are scouring the country for Walters.