Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1904 — ACCUSED OF MURDER. [ARTICLE]

ACCUSED OF MURDER.

FATHER AND SON HELD FOR A WOMAN'S DEATH. Taken Into Custody at Missouri Cemetery Immediately After Burial of Vic-tim-Boy Lost at Fair Thought to Have Been Drusrced and Robbed. George W. Gay and liis son, Lester Gay, were arrested at the entrance to the cemetery near Agency, Mo., on the charge of murdering Mrs. George \V. Gay, wife of the senior Gay. The woman’s throat was cut and the father and son claimed to have found her dead upon returning from the fieid for dinner. Her body had just been interred when the sheriff from St. Joseph made the arrests. The prisoners were taken to St. Joseph and placed in jail. Both deny all knowledge of the crime and adhere to their original story that they found the. woman’s body bound hand and foot nnd the throat cut. It has developed that George Gay and his wife frequently had quarreled and that they had separated several times, the last time about six years ago. It is the theory of the officers that, because the wife would not consent to sell their farm and move to Oklahoma, George Gay killed her in the presence of the son. “I expected to be arrested,” said Gay senior. ‘‘l know there are those in the community in which I live who think I killed my wife, but I swear before God that I am Innocent.” BOT LOST AT FAIR IS FOUND. Claims He Was Abducted and Enlisted in the Army. Stephen Putney, Jr., son of a wealthy Richmond, Va., manufacturer, who disappeared several days ago while visiting the fine arts building at the world’s fair, returned the other day to the Hamilton Hotel in St. Louis, where his brother, Langhorne Putney, is stopping. It is claimed the youth, who is 16 years old, was drugged and abducted by three men, and remembered nothing until he found himself in Kansas City.' Being ashamed to appeal to his family, he enlisted in the army, giving his age as 21 years. His brother will attempt to secure his discharge from the army.

CITIZENS ROUT ROBBERS. Arouaed by Explosion, They Go to Rescue of Bank. Determined citizens roused from their beds by the sound of an explosion in the vaults of the Bank of Wabash, Wabash, Neb., routed a pair of bandits at 3 o’clock the other morning and saved the cash box from being looted. Two robbers blew off the outside door of the safe and laid a second blast to open the vault. The citizens, headed by Postmaster Brown, opened fire and a running fight ensued. The robbers escaped near Weeping Water. They secured no money. Three Children Killed in an Hour. One child was killed and two others fatally injured within an hour the other day in McKeesport. Pa. Mary Wardak, aged 10, was decapitated by a street car; Thomas Cavanaugh, aged 12, was fatally 6hot by 13-ycar-old John Sheehan, while they were playing hunters, and the ambulance, hurrying to the hospital with young Cavanaugh, picked up Oscar Nord qulst, aged 13, who had fallen under a train. President at the Ex tion. President Roosevelt gave an exhibition of whirlwind sightseeing at the St. Louis fair, “doing” the exposition in eight hours. He inspected the exhibits, visited the officials in the several foreign buildings, reviewed troops and attended a banquet at the Tyrolean Alps. His wife and Miss Alice Roosevelt accompanied them. The party was given a cordial reception everywhere. Swallows Poison at Cell Door. Mrs. Julia McGraw, wife of a Menifee County farmer, was arrested near Mnriba, Ivy., charged with poisoning Mrs. Martha Yocum, aged 05, and three women named Botts last August. As Mrs. McGraw was being placed in a cell she attempted suicide by swallowing digitalis. A physician was summoned, and after hard work succeeded in saving the woman’s life. Find Mummies in a Cave. Miners have broken into a cavern containing two dozen mummies near Silver City, N. M. Buried with the mummies were stone weapons and instruments, showing that they belonged to n prehistoric race. The mummies were apparently about 5 feet tall iu life. Their heads were small and their arms long. The cave was about 100 feet below the surface of the earth.

lOiOOO Starving to I>cath. Ten thousand Snssuns are starving to death In the Mush district of Armenia. So reports United Stntes Consul Norton at Harput to the State Department. The district was recently swept by Kurdish hordes. /, , Anglo-Russian Agreement. The text of the Anglo-Russian agreement on the North Sea affair haa been made public in London and the morning papers criticise it beenuso no punishment la provided for those guilty of the attack. Russians Repulse Japanese. Karopatkin reports an engagement with the Japanese at the Shakhe Hirer during a blizsard and fog, in which, it is said, the Japanese were repulsed. Ifhlte Boys Shoot Negroes. Three colored school boys, ranging in age from 13 to 10 years, were shot by white boys at Twenty-first and Main streets, Little Rock, Ark., as they were returning home from school. No reason is given for the shooting. Washington Bank in Trouble. The Big Bend National Bank of Davenport, Wash., has been closed by order of the Comptroller of the Currency. The failure is laid to losses in leans made to mining companies in which the bank oißcials are Interested.