The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1884-03-05
MURDER AT WINDSOR.
!. Old Man Assasinated for Mon
ey aud Revenge.
s.snicion Points to Three Young
Hen who have DISAPPEARED.
MOST BL LOODT DEED.
=, the Sedslia Sunday Democrat.

/ r,,,, the Sedslia Sunday Democrat.
| Windsor March, Ist: Last nigh
,ar CITY was thrown into a fever OF
~e;sement and alarm, bv the report
hat Uncle JOHNNY Wells had been
most toully murdered. The faces
q strong men were blanched with
,ons,ernatlon and dread. As they re
,l;zed that for the first time IN years
The lite OF one of their neignbors had
b..n taken IN cold blood. A body
Of men were soon gathered together,
who proceeded to the scene of the
tragedy, where fearful sight met
their eyes. Stretched out stiff and
cold IN death lay the form of Uncle
Johnny, fairly riddled with bullets.
Struck down without warning, he
mad at least died heroically. AS
near as your reporter could gather in
details, the facts were III substance
rs follows:
Last night between 9 and 10
o'clock, Mr.. Wells was sitting at his
desk. writing, when he heard some
one come in the hall door and stop.
Thinking that it was some one OF
the neighbors, and wishing TO hight
them into the room, the old man
arose and opeEed the door. As he
did SO, man stepped up to HIM and
leyeling cooked revolver at his
head, exclaimed cxcitedly, Your
money or your life !" Almost at the
same instant, and before the old man
bad time to move.
A SHOT WAS FIRED
nom the revolver. striking Wells in
he neck. Wells sprang inside the
oom and made an attempt to reach
i loaded shotgun which stood in the
corner saying to his wife he was shot.
Before he could reach it, however. d
second shot was fired, and he tell
powerless. The second shot was
also from revolver, and came
through window at the side of the
house, the curtain being up. More
snots IN rapid succession were then
fred BY the person i'll the hall and
the one at the window. until the old
mans body was
RlDELED WITH SIX BULLETS.
One of these was in the car, one
entered the front of the neck. anoth-
tr took effect III the breast, near the
heart, while three others were in the
ower part of the body and the legs.
Having effectnally settled old MIR.
Wells, the nurderers came INTO the
Toon and proceeded to the table
which was covered with an ordinary
ablecloth. This table was always
lept covered. and it was the habit
II the family to keep under the cloth
sum of money. 1t So
'Appened, however, tina, on theAight
n question there was only
SINGLE NICKEL
m the table. The ,uurderers hasti-
! pulled the cloth off the table evl-
emily expecting to find considerable
money: but they found only the sol
'ary nickle. and after ransackins the
Dom the mu,diervrs hastily depart
d. taking alung the old man watch
nd sun. which last they broke and
'rew the pieces into the ward.
Al the tlnae u; the shooting there
ere IN tile room two persons be-
des the man killed. Uncle Johnny
Ia out recently married. and his
he WAS IN bed at the time of the
nide'. y brother OF Uncle Iol,u-
was also in the room. hut WHEN
c shooting commenced he ran out
'e back door, aud ii is thought
erehv >sse,i his life. Neither
'nid do ANYTHING against the volleys
lead thar .amc iro,r the. revoisers
the man III the hall and the other
the window.
! Itse tS~.,rzt>..~s 1,l