Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-03
MURDER MYSTERY.
Another Dead Body Found Near
Birmingham, Ala, Concealed
in Brush.
Diabolical Attempt to Burn Danbury,
COnn.-Attempted Train Wrecking
in New Mexico.
Gal Tolliver Dying From the Effects of an
EncOunter-An Aged Veteran Com y
mits Murder.

mits Murder.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. 2-The third
murder mystery within q month came to
light yesterday near Snake mines, four
miles from the city, when some boys hunt
ing in the woods found the dead body Of
we'll dressed young man concealed in q
pile of brush. He had evidently been dead
several days, as decomposition had set in.
Several pistol shot wounds were found on
the body, and pistol with every chamber
empty was unearthed a short distance
away. The coroner was notified, and has
had the body brought to the city. A num-
Der OF people have viewed the remains,
but they have not been identified.
John Wylie, the man arrested in Atlanta
on suspicion of being an accomplice in the
hendish Halves murders in this city, may
prove an important witness if he is not
implicated in the crime. The circumstances
look very ugly for Wylie now, but he may
be able to clear himself of suspicion. He
was seen with Halves several times just
before the murders were committed, and
on Saturday night before the discovery Of
the bodies he had no money to pay for a
drink, but on the Monday following he was
seen with 500, the possession of which he
explained by saying he won it playing
poker.
ATTEMPTED TRAINwRECKING.
ALBUQUERQUE N NJ. Jan. Late Sat-
urday night an attempt was made to wreck
the second section OF the east bound At
lantic & Pacific passenger train at bridge
u, between Laguna and FL Rito. The two
sections were running about thirty minutes
apart. The first section met with no OBJ
struction, but when the second reached the
bridge the engineer, too late to stop the
train, discovered a rail and heavy oak tie
lying across the track about the center Of
the bridge. Opening the valves to their
utmost, the train shot on like lightning,
the pilot striking the distractions and
knocking them clear from the track.
Laguna was notified from the next sta
ton of the attempt and Mr.. Garvin, the
Laguna merchant, and party Of the best
trailers of the Pueblo, repaired immedi-
ately to the scene OF the attempted wreck,
where the tracks of the men were found,
showing where they had pried an old rail
from the mud near the end of the bridge
and carried it to the place where it had
been placed. But although the ground
was soft, no track could be found leading
to or FIR ON the bridge.
How the job could have been done in so
short time-less than thirty minutes be-
tween trains-aud the scoundrels escape,
leaving no trail that even an Indian
could follow, is mystery. The attempt
occurred between one and two O'Clock in
the afternoon and within twenty min
utes after the section men had passed over
the bridge.
AN INCENDIARY PLOT.
DANBURY, Conn.,, Jan. 2-Yesterday
afternoon the Waterman at the large
wooden building used by David G. Hem
field for the storag of benzine, naphtha.
kerosene and fish oil found that the store
house had been entered and twenty-five
barrels of the different oils had been.
opened and their contents formed pool
around the building and near Steii
river, a small stream near by. Last
night from twenty-five to fifty
men were secreted at various places
near the building in the hope of capturing
the miscreant, it being thought that he in
tended setting fire to the oil during the
night. Should such a thing have taken
place, aided by Stell river, the burning
oil would have set fire to numerous factor
les along the stream. The incendiary
theory is strengthened by the fact that
within the past forty-eight hours there
have been four small fires, two being of
undoubted incend airy origin.
CAL ToLLIvER.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. Gal Tolliver, q
cousin OF the famous outlaw, Craig Tolli-
yer. who was killed at Moorehead two
years ago, is reported fatally wounded at
Martinsburg, KY, the county seat Of Ell
liot County. 1t has a strict local option
aw, and Christmas eve Tolliver, who
though barely of age, has a reputation as,
a member of his cousins band, went with
a quantity of whisky bent on hav-
ing a holiday jollifcation. While
drinking with his friends in a
store next morning he and Frank
Atkins, stout young mountaIneer, quar-
relied and Tolliver drew a knife and
slashed Atkins across the abdomen. Atkins
by jumping back escaped O serious
wound, and answered the attack by strik-
lug Tolliver in the head with a scale
weight knocking him senseless. Tolliver
was taken to a friends house, where he
consciousness during the night,
but at last reports his condition was con-
sidered dangerous.
MURDERED BY k AGED VETERAN.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Jan. 9. Louis
Schmidt, an inmate Of the Soldiers Home
and sixty-five years of age, stabbed a
fellow veteran named Ruder Yesterday
afternoon, causing instant death. The
two men had quarreIed in discussion
over their respective war record, while
drinking in a saloon. and almost came to
blows there Schmidt procured knife,
waited for Ruder on the road leading TO
the home and plunged it into his stomach
The murderer then proceeded to the home
and gave himself up to the provost SER
yeant who turned him over to the sheriff.
FOUR GEoRGIAss BADLY WOUNDED.
AUGUSTA, Ca. Jan. about eighteen
miles from this CITY Saturday Louis Black
md a man named Brown were hunting on
he land o. SIM Fielding, when he and his
ions appeared with guns and battle en-
,ued. All parties are still living, but are
badly wounded.
STILL AT LARGE
OZARK, No., Jan. 2-Wilsy Matthews is
till in the woods and nothing has been
heard of him. 1t is thought that he will
% caught soon. John Maj thews, who was
is very sick and not able to be
Up.
Pledged to Henderson.
LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 1.-Chairman L. d.
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