The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-12-18
THIEVES IN TOLEDO.
a Man shot at "a ford.

Our usually quiet community
was startled by the report of gun
at about $50 on Friday, the 18th,
inst. Itwas soon noised about
that a man had been shot in Mr..
Henry Wilson's meadow. AS near
as can gather the different stor-.
les from the neighbors and those
who visited the scene, l condense
the following as history of the
sad affair. In the fall there werc
a few empty buildings near the de-
pot. AS people were leaving the
counties west of US they very nat
urally looked for some place to
winter. These empty houses we're
taken by persons mostly unknown
to the people here. 1t began to
be limited around that at least two
of the new Corners here were
subsisting without much mus
cular effort. The Industrious
part of the community re
Numbering the old adage,
"No excellence without labor"
began to consider some of these
people as wanting in qualities that
are regarded as necessary to make
them excellent or profitable clti-
zens. Surmises seem to as
sumo a matter of fact shape. Tar-
keys disappeared. Chickensleftt tho
roost and forgot to return. Hams
and shoulder that were supposed
to be thoroughly dead walked away
and never came home. Corn load
ed itself up and went to market or
somewhere else. The wheat bins
leaked at the top as they were
never known to do before.
It began to seem doubtful
VIII ether the hard pressed farmer,
who had toiled against all the
drawbacks OF the past hard season,
was the owner Of the products of
his farm, although secured by hon.
est toll amid the hoppers and dust.
While in the midst of all this pill
Laying no attempts have been made
to punish the guilty because, they
were unknown. All had to rest
content with surmises. The fin
ger of suspicion could be pointed,
but the proof was wa nting. Dur
ing this time Mr.. Jacobson,
of Michigan, purchased the farm
of Harrison Davidson, and a dwell.
ing house at Stafford. 1t seems
that Mr.. j. concluded that some
one was in the habit OF borrowing
his hay in the night, SO he went to
the stack to watch, armed with a
loaded with shot. While
there en- Friday night man came
after hay. Jacobson latter some |
conversation shot the man and |
then went to the house of Henry |
Wilson, notified him that he had
shot some one and asked Wilson |
to go with him TO see how bad the |
man vas hurt. Mr.. w. went with |
jacobson and found the body of
VIM. Fisher lying about SO PAGES
from the stack. Life was extinct.
The near neighbors gathered and
watched the body until Samuel
Sturgeon, a Justice of the Peace,
came and held an inquest. The
body was removed to the house
occupied by Fishers family. Sat
nrday morning the Coroner came,
bringing with him DR.. Carter,
Of Cottonwood Falls. A new jury
was sum moAed, owing to some in
tormality in the proceedings of
Squire Sturgeon. Sixty small
shot had entered the back below
.he left shoulder, three of which |,
we're found in the heart. The
verdict OF the jary was -Sdeath
caused by gun shot wound infiict-
ID by Jacobson, all of which L
earn Jacobson admitted, but
seemed to believe that he had done L
light. Now, whether VIM. Fisher
vas one of the parties that has
lone SO much to arouse the indig-
nation of the people, no one pre-