The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-10-26
A MYSTERY.
The Body of an Unknown Man
Found Murdered.
RUN OVER BY A FREIGHT TRAIN.
Husband Murders His Wife and Then
Kills Himself. Frequent Quarrels Over
Child Being the Cause-Six
Men Injured.

FORT SCOTT, Kan, Oct 23.-Iester-
day afternoon the body of fine-look-
ing, well-dressed man was found hid
den in tuft of weeds in field, mile
south of this city. An assassin's bull
let had pierced his brain, and he had
been dragged $50 feet and thrown over
fence. He wore new suit of black
clothes, was dark Completed, and ap-
parently about &c years of age. De-
composition had set in. He is unknown
to any of the many hundreds who have
viewed his remains in the morgue in
this city, and there is not any evidence
of his identity to be found.
Under the railroad platform at the
fair grounds, near where he evidently
met death, was found soft felt hat
and bundle of underclothing saturat-
ed with blood. 1t was wrapped in
sheet of wrapping paper from the cloth
ing house of E. W. Mitchler & Co., of
Paola, Kan. and then in a st. Louis
Globe Democrat of October Is. In his
pockets was found small amount of
change and a letter so obliterated by
the exposure that its contents could
not be discerned. The first two letters
of the signature were "E. W." The
body had been dra gged in the mud by
the feet.
At the spot where he was killed there
are evidences in the mud of desperate
struggle, participated in probably by
three men. The murder is a complete
mystery. A coroner's jury has failed
to establish identity and the officers
are nonplussed. His presence in such
a remote spot as where the murder oc-
Cured cannot be accounted for.
CRUSHED UNDER THE CARS.
PERRY, Ok. Oct 22-Hugh Corrigan,
well known citizen of Perry and a
member of the city council, was run
over by a freight train yesterday
morning and cut entirely into pieces
and his remains scattered along the
yards. The coroner commenced an in
vestigation yesterday morning, but
has not ended his work. One theory
is that Mr.. Corrigan, who is 60 years
old, was going home and was struck
by an engine, and another is that he
was killed at his home and laid on the
track to keep down suspicion. Mr..
Corrigan's wife was away from home.
The deceased came here from Dallas,
Tex. where he was prominent busi-
ness man.
QUARRELED OVER A CHILD.
HANNIRAL. Mo-. Oct. 23. Sanford
Baldwin murdered his wife in this city
early Yesterday morning and then killed
himself. The weapon used was a
double -barrelcd shotgun. Baldwin was
50 years of age and his wife 3d. Both
had been married before their union
last August, the woman having four
children, one of whom Baldwin did not
like. Quarrels over this one were fre
quent. Baldwin in one of these out
bursts threatening his wife's life. She,
much alarmed, went with her children
to the home of a neighbor. Yesterday
morning she returned alone. The
quarrel was renewed and the tragedy
followed.
SIX MEN HURT.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Oct. 23.-The build
ing on Bridge square, being demol-
ished by the Pabst Brewing Co. for the
erection of their new warehouse, fell
shortly after o'clock yesterday after
noon. Six men were buried under the
debris. five of whom have been taken
out badly injured, one possibly fatally.
The sixth is still under pile of brick.
plaster and timbers and can he heard
groaning by the firemen working on
the wreckage.