Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1899 — MURDER NEAR KOKOMO. [ARTICLE]

MURDER NEAR KOKOMO.

Farmer Found, Shot and with His Skull Crushed In. Luther Sampson, living on the Jonas Parks farm, six miles southwest of Kokomo, was found with his head crushed and a bullet in his body. At 2 o’clock the other morning he was awakened by a noise in the yard, and thinking his cattle had broken in, he went to drive them away. When but a few feet from the door a masked man stepped out from the shrubbery and felled him with a sandbag. The assassin then fired a bullet at the heart of the prostrate and unconscious man and disappeared before he could be recognized by the family.