The record-union., 1892-10-11
Two Prisoners Taken From Officers
and Shot to Death.
THEIR BODIES THEN MUTILATED IN
A FEARFUL MANNER.
Horrible Tragedy III Monroe County,
Daughter Hacked to Pieces by a
Gang of Negroes and the Bodies
Cremated-Three Men Killed in 8
Fight in kentucky.
Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.

Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
OMAHA (Neb.j, Oct 10.-A special TO
the Omaha Bee from Casper, Wyoming,
says: Meager details of tho shooting Of
two men between Bonanza and Hyatts-
vile, in Johnson County, two hundred
miles north of here, have just reached
Casper. The men killed are Dabb, the
man who last year fought pistol duel
near Lander, Wyoming, and Strange, a
Texan. 1t seems the two men were ar
rested for horse-stealing two weeks ago,
and given examinations and turned
loose. Instead of leaving the country
they attempted to terroriZe the commu-
nifty by shooting at people, and were again
arrested. Constable Reilly started with
the men for Buffalo, $50 miles away. 4
party OF masked men came upon the
camp the first night, and, overpowering
the officers, filled each prisoner full of
bullets, severiug their heads from their
bodies, and mutilating them in a fearful
manner
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
MOBILE (Ala.), Oct. l0.-A horrible
tragedy occurred at the plantation of
Richard L. Johnson, III Monroe County,
Friday night, which was not heard OF
here until to-day. Johnson and his
elghteen-year-old daughter were hacked
to pieces with an ak, and then cremated.
a gang OF desperate negroes are sup
posed to have committed the horrible
crime. Seven negroes have been arrested,
and the people OF the neighborhoOd are
searching the country round about for
more who are thought to have taken part
! in the awful affair. The first known
| about the crime was midnight Friday,
| when neighbors We're attracted to john
! sons home by fire. When they reached
| there the house was burning to the
ground, and the charred bodies of john
| son and his daughter were found in the
ruins.
| TWO STUDENTS SHOT.
| LAWRENCE (kas.), Oct. l0.-Thls even
| ing Fred Bassett, a student at the uni
versity Law School, living with his
| father on the latter's farm near here, shot
and seriously wounded E. Higgins and
! Jack Craycroit, both students Of the
! Kansas University. They had been prac-
ticing football on the athletic field, and
were returning to their rooms through
! Bassett's farm, on which they had been
| warned not to trespass. AS they passed
the house young Bassett appeared in tho
door and discharged a double-barreled
shotgun at the young men without say
ing word. Higgins will probably die.
! CraycroIt may recover.
TRAGEDY IN KENTUCKY.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 10.-At White Pine,
in Carter County. while q dance was i'll
progress at the residence of Widow Cox,
two drunken strangers came in and tried
TO break up the dance. Floor Managers
Charley Wilmoth and Harry Collins tried
to eject them from the house. The stran-
gers drew revolvers and fired, killing Will
Iuoth and Collins and painfully wound
lug Will Henson. The murderers then
mounted horses and escaped.
THREE WERE KILLED.
RICHMOND (Va.), Oct. 10.--A dispatch
from Norton, Wise County, says Frank
Johnson, being refused admittance to see
his sweetheart, Lulu Warwick, by her
father, i'll Knott County, KY, went away
and returned with three friends. A fight
ensued, in which Warwick and his son
and one of Johnson's friends We're killed.
SHOT DOWN NEAR HIS OWN DOOR STEP.
CINCINNATI. Oct. 10.-C. c. Doolittle,
living in Columbus, was going home this
evening, and when within fifty feet of his
own door step was shot and mortally
wounded by an unknown man. DoOlit-
tie suspects a colored boy whom he had
arrested for burglary.