The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1877-11-29
True Charged With Murder.

John b. True. whose arrest for forgery we
mentioned two weeks ago, has now been charged
with being the cause OF the sudden disappearance
Rev : WOolpert, OF Wakefield, near Wsmego about
the first November and the superstition Is that Rev.
woolpert WAS murdered on the afternoon Of NOvem :
Der lst. Rev wcolpert, aged about 50 years pastor
Of Wakefield M e. church in Clay county. LETT his
home with hIs team 10 90 to ais farm near Topeka.
He last alone that afternoon near LAi,ss on
Wild Cat creek. The following morning about Il
o. oek he drove into ST George with young man.
eRquTing the road to Wanego. About 3 0 clock T.
NJ. Young man, calling himself See, drove into
WamegO alone and offered the team for sale for si8o
be fund purchaser and took ss5 ca sh the balance
10 remain deposit until the purchaser satisfied
/ that everything was all right reverend gentleman
OF Wamego selected TO hold the order-See having
represented 70 him that he member OF his
church, eic..-and was to forward the money to him
at Solomon City. See then left wamexo, taking with
him the valise and other articles from the wagon
About this date True was missing from his home in
tnls eounty-some bad transactions OF his having
Been reported IN his nelghborhood, and he proposed
70 go and get some money and settle up some them
He returned home in couple of weeks bringing with
nun several articles which ne had not with him when
he LEFT, such as clothes. watches. robes etc AMI
having some money. He soon LEFT and was next heard
oil at solomon City, where he arrested on charge
by HsniOrd aad Grier. The article announcn., his
arrest, published IN theJoURNAL. (which bythe-wav
True was anxious to have suppresse-i) came 10 the
notice oil Rev . b Woolpert. of BrOokyiile a son
oil the missing man, who. from the descrip ton be re-
celSed oil See while searching for his father aud bS
ing personally acquainted with True at once sur
missed that he was the man be after and inmedi-
ately telegraphed Mr.. Long 70 hold True on the
next train the younger Woopert arrived bringing with
MN some Wamego gentlemen lone Of them the gen
tIenan who held the money. Repairing to the coun
" JAN, the gentleman referred To At once recognized
True as the young man See who sold the horses Mr.
Long returned from Trues home about that time with
the articles True above referred TO- and the gold watch
was identified by Woolpert Is the one which his faith
er had carried several years
circumstances point very strongly 10 True As being
the cause OF Rev Woolpert's disappearance He has
acted very suspieiously in trying TO shoot himself
"hen arrested by Hanford and Grier, and in giving
explanations as 10 his possession OF the clothes etc
Al the county jail, last evening, he took the rope
which the prisoners have used to hang their wash
ing on, and hid 1t under his pillow, where sheriff
Long discovered 1t when he went to lock the pri,
oners in their cells Tie evidently CONTEMPLATED su
icide.
The sheriff and county attorney of Pottawatomie
county will probably arrive in this civ to-day and
apply for the transfer of True TO that county
The son OF Rev. wOolpert Is in the city He Ia,
no doubt that his father has been murdered and i,
equally sure that True committed the deed Hi,
mother Is at her home in Wakefield, Frustrated by
the shock her system received when she heard OF the
probable murder OF her husband