The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-12
FRICHTFUL CRIME.
A Boy Accused of AssassinatinR
a Family.
ANOTHER FORD COUNTY HORROR.
The Object of the Young Fiend UnlK nown
Three Of the Family Fatally Injured
The Boy Tells n Story OF
-Four Men.

DODGE CITY, Kan, Jan. 9.-Thomas
Walker, boy of 16 years, is in Jail in
this city charged with one of the most
county of many murders-the proba BILE
assassination of three persons, one an
innocent babe, and the serious wound
ing of another.
Sunday night about o'clock a farmer
named William Kimbrel, his wife and
child, aged Is months, and the wife's
sister were retiring, all in the same
room. at kimbrers home in Ford coun-
ty, about seventeen miles southwest of
this p ace. Mr.. Kimbrel had just laid
down on the bed. His wife was sitting
by the fire with the child. Suddenly
some fiend fired load of buckshot
through the south window at Mr..
Kimbrel. the entire charge taking ef-
feet in his face. neck and shoulder.
Kimbrel fell off the bed to the floor
His wife, with the child, and her sister,
ran to him and were bending over
him when another charge of
shot was fired. this time through
the north window, into the
group with terrible effect. Mrs. Kim
brel was struck in the side, the child
about the head and the wife's sister in
the face. Mrs Kimbrel fell with the
child to the floor. both probably fatally
hurt. The sister started for the stable
to get horse to go for assistance. At
the stable she met n young man named
Joseph Walker. He asked her if she
had heard the firing. She told him the
Kimbrel family were all killed. They
then started i'm different directions for
help. Both returned in a short time
with some neighbors.
1t was found that Kimbral had one
eye shot out and his jugular vein was
badly torn and bleeding profusely.
The wife had an ugly wound in her
side. The child was struck with shot
about the temple. At > o'clock yester-
day morning Il messenger came to
Dodge after DIR. Milton and Sheriff
Beeson, who at once started for the
scene of the tragedy. On the arrival of
the sheriff Mrs Kimbrel's sister ac-
cused young Walker of doing the shoot
ing Walker lives about one aIrl
lIoul lllC lOiSC.
Mr.. Kindred says he saw young
Walkers dogs about his house a shCra
time before the shooting occurred.
Walker says four men on horseback
fired at him near his house and that he
started for the Kimbrel house when he
heard shooting in that direction. The
footprints in the ground around the
Kimbrel windows correspond with
those made by Walkers shoes.
Sheriff Beeson returned at noon with
young Walker in charge, and locked
him up in Jail.
The sheriff says it was the most horri-
BILE sight he ever saw. Dr. Milton, of
this city, is attending to the injured
family. He told Sheriff Beeson before
he left the house that the chances were
slim of saving the lives of any of the
Kimbrels. Young Walker is 16 years
of age, and is a cousin of the Kimbrels.
No bad feeling is known to exist be-
tween the parties. Young Walker was
at the Kimbrel house assisting the
neighbors when the sheriff arrived
there early yesterday morning. and
acted surprised at the charge of the
sister. No gun could be found with
Young Walker.