The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-11-15
WASH. hfDE HUSTLED
Olt of Existence by City Fire
Engineer, Frank C. Me-
Nally. With His Pop.
A Sad Affair Last Night, Re-
sulting in the Unmerited
Death Of a Benton
County Farmer.
An Interview Wit the Man Who
Killed Him and Also With
Other rattle

a. ahout twenty mirUt.-s To seven laSi
night, IN the stairway IA n.XI.rs new
! building, ON Second street. between Ohio
ind Lamin- Streets occurred one 81 thos,
terrible homicide, which ,ct men IL
thinking huw iraii and uncertain i the
/ tenure of human iiic, and winch ar"us.
I the Indignation and sympathy ul tine com
munity. he ever too READY revolver III
! the hands of an excited man, Incapable al
scll-control in ang"r, was the prime calls,
ii the unfortunate uccurr,:lcc bv which
Wash. HYDE
LOST Ills LIFE.
! People who were passing in the vicinity
of the postof!ice al the time "f the tragedy
! heard Two pistol shots Iii quick succession
/ The rumoi flew like wiidti-c through the
city that Frank &. McNaiiv, engineer of
tie fire department CT Srdaiia. AMI special
police officer had shot and killed one
! Wash. HYDE. wealthy farmer of Benton
county, and who had been IN the city Tor
a couple oi weeks on prolonged spree.
The report proved but too true, and the
excited citizens gathered aboui the fatal
! stairway where the dumb clay which had
80 shortly before been the athletic Person
! of
THE UNFORTUNATE HYDE
was living. A cold and chill, rain wa
falling. but the people. among whom what
was thought la be cold bloodrd murder had
lust been enacted. regardless of the inciem-
ent weather, surged about. filling up the
street. and expressed their opinion OF the
shooting in an exceedingly Tree and can
did manner.
The facts, as well as they can be gath
cred AT present, are about a. follows.
HYDE had been absent from the city for
some three DAYS. and came To tu~n y.ster-
iav, in company with the weil-known mule
hurer Jack Meneire. Hyde wished 10
send a telegram 10 his brother in Iowa.
and parted lron Mr. Meneiee Tor the pur-
pus. of going 10 the telegraph office and
sending the message. HYDE, who had
been drinking very heavily for scvcra!
weeks, was In a very excited and nervous
condition. Instead of going la the teic-
graph Office h. went 10 Dextcrs building,
on the opposite side 81 the place where hc
wished la 90. and passed up the stair
way leading Ia the business college
of Moore * Fraker On reaching the
landing he attempted to enter an emrt;
front room ON the east side oil Ihe hail, ia,
door OF which was locked, Hyde iIaagin-
ing that the telegraph office WIS located
there. When hc found ihlt the door did
uui WELD to hi, pressure. he became more
excited than before, and commenced
KICKING IT IN.
Mr.. Moore, the partner VI Captain /.
Fraker i'm the bHsinC.s college. heard tnc I.
disturbance created by ii yde and opened .
his door across the hail. having ju,; .
lighted up the college ronHis preparatory .
To the evening SESSION. and saw the il
iuriaied II vdc attempting Ia batter in the
door of the vacant ROOM. nr. Moore .
asked him what lac wanted there. Hvdc I
said. with an oath that he wanted To- gei
into that room and was bound lo get in.
Mr. Moore told him that the room was /
vacant and that he would not nave such
going OH there, and that h. .
must cease making such 4 Noise.
HYDE REFUSED
TO comply with Mr.. Moorc's request, AMI,
swearing and cursing. recommended his at
tack on the door, kicking the knob of and
staving in the upper right hand pannci.
Mr. Moore then said that he would send
Tor the police unless HYDE desisted from
any further violence, and, receiving an
other refusal from the obstinate and cx-
cited farmer, went TO the telephone and
called for Captain Frsker, vino MAS al his
office in the city building. He requested
the captain 10 send police officer up i'm
telling hun what was the mat
ter Frank G. McNallv was the only Off
ser available at the time, that locality be
in- his post OF duty a. cltv fire engineer
WAS living in the county Jail, and the i'll
alod HYDE was lying bleeding corpse on
hv stairway which WIS the last /.
HE CLIMBED ~ LIFE.
Accompanied by several citizens, among
whom was Mr. Willis. The driver of the
ire engine horses. the officer proceeded 10
make the arrest. McNaily found HYDE AT
he top OF the stairway with his coat oil
and going on In ali excited manner.
There l. much difference In the state
mcnts Of MrNaliy and those OF the by
SANDERS and eyewitness IN regard io
shat occurred al 1 : point az the unior-
unatc affair ii was dark in the hall and =
and the statements made vary 4,
statements of what occurred an the dark.
where no one can So plainly what l. going
IL, mig ht toe expected 10 vary. McNaiiy :
,ays, ~ will Toe secn by his siat,n mont .
given below, that Hyde resisted him ana
,rappI,d with him and that the pistol
vent eli twice by accident, AMI that IN
his WAY The unfortunate man met h,s
icath, without any iaul. on ,hc para Of the
Itiiccr.
The statement most
DAMAGING To McNALIl
: that made bv witness whose ,
for seeing what occurred
we're ui the best lie says that McNally /
pushed Hyde towards the head of the ,
stairs and that the deceased stumbled
about one-third OF the Way down, and that .
NcNally started after him The next that !
his witness saw was McNaliy standing al I
he head of the stairs, which station he ;
Gems to have regained by that time, and
iring at HYDE a. he was coming back mp
L., H,l. r.,,l,..I ia. LANDING ap,i