Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-20
Weary Winding at
Night to Save Him
for Trial.
Complete Particulars.

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G. A. Fellows started drug store al
Oakley, st. John county, some time last
fall He had creditable stock of goods
but was great consumer of one of hi
main staples-whisky. For a month OF
more Fellows had been drinking te
excess. Once he came down to Wa
Keeney, and forestalled an arrest anG
trial by paying thirty-three dollars in the
way of fine and costs for his menace to
the happiness Of his neighbors. About
this time Probate Judge Conger revoked
his permit to sell liquor.
This exposition of few facts leads up
by easy stages to last Saturday evening
when he went to house in town where q
lady and her boy were living. Mrs
Fellows had taken refuge there from the
expressions of the brute who had, at a
marriage alter in Iowa, last July, taken
the most solemn Of obligations to protect
her through life as his wife. At 7:30 P. M.
Fellows went to the house, stood in the
door, and inquired if Mrs. Fellows was
there. He was answered that she was.
Fellows then called his wife. She was
frightened, but she started to him, ex :
claiming, "He won't kill me-" On
her stepping just outside the door
way, Fellows shot her in the
right breast. She managed to turn around
and reach the side of a bed close by. The
poor creature, on her knees, making an
effort to get onto the bed, was shot by
the brute three times in the back. So
close was the muzzle of his revolver to
her clothing while the last shots were
being fired that it caught fire, and on the
murderer leaving the house, the lady
of the house extinguished the fire.
A hundred or more men in town
were thoroughly aroused by this time.
The following kilograms were received at
Wa-Keeney:
OAKLEY, KAN, Feb. 10, 1886.
To SHERIFF
Fellows has killed his wife and skipped
the town. W. TAFT.
OAKLEY, KAN, Feb. 10, 1886.
To UNDER SHERIFF
@. A. Fellows has shot and killed his
wife at half past seven o'clock. Please
come on first train and take charge of
him. P. L. WISDOM.
Under Sheriff Escher and Coroner
Croft stepped on the lightning express
train at this place at 9:23, and proceeded
to Oakley.
The coroner, on reaching there, pro-
ceeded to hold an inquest on the dead
body of the woman. A small crowd of
people were attracted by this work.
Eliza Felts is the woman mentioned
elsewhere as the person in whose house
the murder was committed.
ooRoNER's INQUEST.
STATE OF KANSAS,
TREao COUNTY.
Testimony Of witnesses taken tile - dayef
February, 1850, at an inquest by the snder-
agsed, coroser Of 7rego county, anda jury
of SIX citizens of St. 9okn county.
ELIZA FE1rs, being duly sworn, says:
I reside in Oakley, st John county; I
was acq uainted with the deceased; saw
her last about shutdown; she was at my
house, and said that she and her husband
had another fuss; her husband, Chas. A.
Fellows, then came over to my house, and
asked me to tell his wife to come out
that he wanted 10 see her; then she, Mrs.
Fellows, stepped to the door, and they
talked there little bit; then she turned
to come into the house; then he drew q
revolver, and shot her; then she went into
the house, and sunk down by the bed;
then he came into the house, and shot her
three times; then he turned and walked
out of the house; then I went up and saw
her clothes were on fire where shot went
into the body.
ELIZA FELrE.
JAMES FELrs, being duly sworn, says:
reside in Oakley, St John county; I
was acquainted with the deceased; l was
at home about shutdown; Mrs Fellows
came to our house about snDdown; saw
Charles A. Fellows shoot his wife in the
house; he shot her three times as l saw;
then he turned, and went out Of the house;
then my mother went to her, and put the
fro out OF her clothes that caught from
the powder; then my mother went to the
door, and told him that be had done some |
thing he ought not to have done, as he
laid himse3 iable to tho law.
jams Fnna !