The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-27
Boy Fiends Fired Upon Their
Victims From Ambush.
PORTLAND FULL OF THIEVES.
Railroads Recovering From the Eff
fects of the Great Snow Storm.
Six Cases Of Smallpox 1T Snohomish, One
At Oiympfa-A Drunken Gardener
Drowned in . Cistern At Port Town
send.

SNoHoMisH. Dec. 26.-fSpecial THE
bodies of George Shoultes and Fred
Schmidt, the two farmers who were shot
dead by two young men named Robinson
and Livingstone. three miles east of Du-
buque last Thursday afternoon, were
buried in Woodlawn cemetery yesterday
at p. m. Health Officer Limerick held
an autopsy on the bodies in the forenoon.
disclosing thereby some new facts in the
affair. Three balls were found to have
entered Shoulies' body. The first entered
the back, passing through and out of the
front of the chest. The second entered at
the breastbone, coming out at the back,
just above the hips. The third entered
the left leg. Four bullets entered
Schmidt's body. any one of which
would have proved fatal All the
shots took effect in the heart. The first
was from the front through the breast. the
second from behind and through the back,
and another from side to side from one
armpit to the other. Two wounds were
found on Schmidt's left arm, and the au-
topsy showed that the heart was nearly
shot away. Several bullets found IN the
bodies of the two victims proved that
the guns were forty-eighty caliber Win
chester rifles. The supposition is advanced
that Shoultes turned around suddenly
after receiving the first shot, thus ac-
counting for his being hit both from the
front and rear.
The bodies were found at schoolhouse
a mile from the scene of the shooting,
neighbors having removed them for safety.
though the corpses lay on the ground as
they fell all Thursday night. guarded by
Deputies Knowles and Lindsay. The lat
ter stated that the bodies were twenty
feet apart when first found. Sboultes
was in sitting posture, leaning against
the branch of fallen tree, while Schmidt
was lying upon his face. According to the
best testimony Mrs. Helena Kuntz,
sister of Shoultes, was the first
person to arrive on the scene.
She states that her brother and Schmidt
started together with their axes to cut
away some trees that the elder Robinson
had felled across the road and a few
minutes after their departure she heard
rapid firing in the direction Schmidt and
Shouftes had gone and she at once started
to learn the cause. She followed their
tracks in the snow until she came upon
the lifeless bodies of Shoaltes and Schmidt.
She also stated that when the tvs men left
the house Schmidt walked a few wards
ahead of Shoultes, and that when she
found the bodies the relative positions
were not changed. There was a double
track in the snow to where Sheuites' body
was lying. and single one from there to
Schmict's remains. No signs of scuffle
appeared, and it is thought that Schmidt
and Shoultes did not know who fired upon
them and that the murderers were in am
bush and fired from the rear Both
Shoultes and Schmidt were unmarried.
Young Robinson and Livingstone are
now in the county Jail awaiting a prelim-
mary trial. which will probably take place
tomorrow.