The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-08-11
THE NEVADA HORROR,
A Double Murder Which is
Almost Unparalleled.
The Perpetrators of the Crime
Arrested and Lodged
in Jail.

briefly stated In a telegram from this CITY
last night, two dead boiics, father and
son, w.re found In the woods near the
Nj 'rmaton river, some thr, miles or Invest
OF tie city. The .rtiss had been murder
ed, and soon after the the discovery If the
bodies was made known, a great crowd
hurried 10 the place where the bodies were
fouod AID excite ment ran high and is still
at white h-~t, The more so that thu perp--
traitors OF the foul crime have been caught
and l. dyed in the Vernon county Jail.
BAzoo repIrier visited the scene OF
rag dy st on after thu ews was brought 20
the CITY, and ghas,lier sighr than the
but hsred bOdis presented he never re.
held.
In company with Coroner Harris, Sheriff
Hill and Others, tn reportsr pnshed
through the thick brush to tn place where
The b. DIV was ly'ns. A large mound If
leaves had been he ped up in a title de
preston at the ba-e If small Ind rock
blaf. The trash on the ground aud III,
lesveS on the tres showed evidence OF
having been disturbed, but the d I'D lie vs.
L. the mound TO casual obs AVER, would
have seemed very natural, a. there was
drrw b-ts-.n the hills and the wind had
doubtless drilted them a ere.
Sheriff Hill commenced raking the
leave, away wiz a stick, aud 500, exp Sc
the head and shoulders OF boy. An I'D
bran ssck had bren and over hi. bre st,
and DIR. III IRIS caught the corner Of /, ana
pulled il away. The molten moved the
leaves on the other side of the mound, and
those standing near Caught 81 mpSe If
4DoI her face.
"rhe'e is another boiy there" one mat
aid.
"No." replie al other, cit is only tie
snou der OF he boy
PIPER parI OF arc her body PIP ,re,'
The stencil was terrible, an seversl, sick
ned b. tn Itrrib signt, rsireaied preci
Itstels.
The bodies W. re pulled out and plac d
on igher g'ound. They w-re horribly
wolfe, ami e {. atures could n h,v
be n recogr lied b. tn sc VITO d know N
hem intimat ly On body appeared .,
he that oil man p:>' middle .ge aud tn
her roy of sew nteeu ,r eighteen. The
'Oy's thr"a' va gu , he head drawn
hack and he gastly wound g,ped op N.
IL err WIS a scar over tie left eve nd
bul e. no e Ia III ,,oenter Vi his forehead.
The old MN had been stabbed N the
he right sud- "i the thToaI, tud hire
he Wy confusion lie r his r;ght ear, anG
a spot in the csr tre Of which appear. d
t. have BEEN ma e by bullet.
Ia shat l. nelly pot, ToDf,d In by trees
and surronnn d by de SIS unfergrowti
death SCENE doun y tie rible and by those
present there Wa M re PITY exhibited L..
he dead than ex ation or the murder.r.
IDENTIFIED.
The bodies we're ident Fl d as hose Of cd
o d man nam d s WI and his son. and the
unit Tor thel muir 'ereTs W S al one set or
TT NJ rshai Brad anu Dspu'y ~ erifi
White struck lie traii, and It Har~ood,
on TED mil We, If this city, the viii
lain, Henri. Stair md his vie, were arrest
III. hsv ng in h ir .. sse>siol tie two teams
o. the , vel s. hey wee Brought back t,
t e CT y a. d odgei i'll.
VII the 'ffi,.rs ~nd III ir prisIne. 5
r. ac ei h city they were met by sb"ut
QUO m"D, IN p-rec IT. " Of excite
re {, and i. wOul.i have take: but a shoi t.
word TO lave turned the crowd into m b
IRON which the mnrdereIs would h,v,
fOu d no me cy. Iuto a nus he nan and
w. MAJ were hurried, and the horses were
Ia ed inc ron n the Jail, FOLLOWED by
a howIine cow, e'g,r to swing
tie nds ntJ e'ernity. Their,
ha> rtver hse' such wild
scere nnr such excitement in this CITY be-
o-e, and it i n W "niy by tn, W sest cOun
ST. Il { e st men that lynch aw does not
lay par IN the terrible drama TIE man
and woman d. Nv their gull, but tHe EVIL
denre against THU amo"nts t. po>itivr
pr OF. and Their IS TO Chance for them to
soap neg | VS.. Ii wa a cold oloOde
utrb.Ty, I plu ger, md that of the
rhespe { kim. orOarr Harris summoned
ju y, ~ d N aged ali d " IN exanln-
ing n; ony wine SIS, but carefully in
spr Tin. h grou d wh.Te The crime wa,
c"-nmit ed, toy. her with every d. tail and
irc"msta &c which will ,hr,w the | as
ig 80. tie ma ter. By r.ques. of Judye
Burt N, the testimony will not be MADE
lie st present, but il can be said tn a
III gun y T. rti have been secured beyond
re shId' W OF d. ubt.