The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-19
REV. WILLIAM e. HINsHAw.

horss and he and his wife retired. Be-
tween and Q o'clock he was awakened
by a pistol shot, and Mrs. Hinshaw ex-
claimed, "Oh, VIII, am shot!" At the
| same moment he discovered two men
in thereon, one being much larger than
the other, and he sprang from the bed
and grappled with the larger of the two.
A desperate struggle then ensued, Hin
shaw and the burglar fighting from the
bedroom into an adjoining apartment,
then into another room, and then bsck
into the bedroom again, and then over
the same space out into the yard and
across tho street in front of the mousse,
where the burglar released himself and
fled down the road. During this
struggle, Mrs. Hinshaw, her husband
said, was struggling with tho smaller
OF the two men, whom she fought till
he reached the door leading to the
street, where she sank across the step,
and the smaller man, being thus re-
leased from Mrs. Hinshaw, came to the
assistance of his cOmrade. In avi-
dence Of the desperate struggle through
which he had passed. Hinshaw had
seventeen cuts upon his body and arms
and two pistol balls in his body, one in
the shoulder of the left arm and the
other in the left side, both flesh wounds
and neither serious. He said that the
burglars had gotten his pocl1etbook
and what money it contained, but had
secured nothing else.
The community was terribly excited
over the affair, and searching parties
went out in every direction to find the
murderers. A slight snow had fallen
during the night, and had covered all
tracks that might have been made, but
the Waterman or track-walker on the
Vandalia railroad gave a clew. He said
that buggy had been driven rapidly
down the national road between and
8 o'clock that morning. and it had come
from the direction of Bellevilie This
clew was followed up, but it ended in
1pthing, as the parties who were in the
buggy accounted satisfactorily for their
presence on the road. An arrest of
tramp followed, but he was soon re-
leased. In the meantime the detectives
and many of the people of the village
began to inquire into the details Of the
murder, and it was found that som.
things could not be accounted for, and
that others, as told by the minister,
were altogether improbable. An ex-
animation of his wounds showed re-
marka bic condition Each of the knife
cuts upon his body began at point on
the breast and described partial circle
TO the poin. where they ended, Just such
a circle as the hand would describe if
the wounds had been self-infiicted.
Then, too. the wounds on his arm were
on the inside instead of the outside,
where they would naturally be If he had
received them in throwing up his arms
TO ward OF the blows of the assassin
The pistol-shot wounds were both OF
the left side Of the body, and could
have been easily inflicted by himself
II seemed strange 20 the people sh.&
iwo gold watches should haze been left |
upon the table by his bed |
II the purpose of the two men was
robbery. The next day Hinshaw in |
sisted upon going 10 the barn. but re-
fused TO say why he wished to do so, |
end. though positively prohibited by |
mis- physician. he stole out Of the house |
end made the trip 20 the barn. some !
distance away. He had said that his \
rannev had hea, .alen- -but this unex- !.
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