The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-29
PROBE THE MYSTERY.
English Detectives Working on
LedgerMurder Case.
Sensational Story Told by a
COlored Woman.
DESCRIBES THE DEED.
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DESCRIBES THE DEED.
Ledger Chloroformed and His
Body Carried Off.

GUTHRIE, OK, April 29.-The Ledger
murder mystery continues to be the
principal talk of the day. The police
arrested Louise Nolan, negro woman
of i'll repute who was an inmate of the
place where Frank Ledger, the wealthy
young Englishman, is alleged to have
been murdered. Under pressure the
woman told a sensational story to the
officers to the effect that Ledger was
brought to the house; that he was
taken into spare room by two men
and there chloroformed. The body
subsequently, was handed out a window
to a policeman and porter, who were
paid to weight and throw the body into
the Cottonwood river. Ledger was
known to have considerable money,
and the theory is that Ledger was muir
dered for his money. The case has
been worked by Scotland Yard detec-
tives under pay of the British crown,
and two men are now in jail charged
with the crime. The progress of the
unraveling of the sensational case is
being watched with interest by the
British consul at Kansas City and Pink
erton.
OFFICERS OF THE LAW AAIBUsHED.
CHICAGO, April ga Herald special
from Pittsburg, Tex, says: In a re-
mote section of Titus county, miles
of here, Constable Oliver attempted to
arrest a man named Belcher for some
minor offense. Belcher resisted, and
in the shooting which followed, Con-
stable Oliver was shot through the
hand. Oliver withdrew and Sc
cured reinforcements in the per-
sons of three men named Cooper,
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make the arrest, Belcher and the male
members of his family ambushed the
party at Blacks Ridge on White Oak
fusillade into the posse from rifles and
revolvers, moving down the entire
party. Later reports from the scene
state that Oliver and Cooper were in
stantly killed, and Frye and Richie
fell mortally wounded. The Belchers
mounted their horses and fed, leaving
the dead and dying officers in the road
where they fell. Armed posses are on
the trail, but it is not believed the
Belchers will be captured alive. They
| are desperate men and more bloodshed
| is looked for.
A WHITECAP OUTRAGE.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, April ga spe-
cial from Sevierville, the county seat
of Sewer county, where notorious
gang of whitecaps have held forth for
two years past, says Thomas Gibson, a
we'll to do farmer, was shot down in
cold blood Saturday night at II o'clock.
The story of the tragedy is told by the
19-year-old daughter of the dead man.
She says she and her father were alone
in the house when three men came
and tried to get her father to come
out. When he refused they knocked
the door down and when the father
| showed fight by raising chair one of
| the whitecaps fired load of shot from
double barreled shotgun into Glib
sons body and he fell dead. The
young lady fed to the house of neigh
Dor where she spent the night, all be-
ing afraid to return to the scene of the
murder, and the lifeless body lay in
the doorway all night. Sixty-three
shots entered Gibson's body. The
whole country is excited over the deed.
Gibson had received a whitecap notice
a few days ago but had not needed it's
! warnings.
A MAN WHIPPED BY WOMEN.
PORT TAMPA, Fla, April 29.-Edward
Tucker, a merchant of this place, was
taken from his home Saturday night
and numerically whipped by female
whitecaps. Tucker has been in the
habit of going home drunk and abus-
ing his wife. Some time ago he was
warned that he must treat his wife
| better or he would be severely pun
ished.