Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1898 — A BLOODY DEED. [ARTICLE]

A BLOODY DEED.

A Farmhand In Missouri Murder* Hl* Employer and the l.nttrr’i Wife. St. Louis. July 2.—A special to tlie Post Dispatch from Jackson. Mo., says: James Lail. u prosperous farmer, and his wife, living three miles south of here, were murdered Friday by John Headrick, a 19-year-old farmhand who hud been dUchurged. Hendrick shot the farmer four times, killing him. The murdered man’s wife threw herself oif his bqdy and asked for mercy, but Hendrick cut her throat. After compelling the daughter of his employer to wash the blood off his clothes Headrick escaped. A sheriff’s posse is in pursuit.