Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-10-17
GEORGIA TRAGEDY.
Three Men Killed and Two Others
Seriously Wounded.
BANK ROBBERS SHOT TO DEATH.
They Loot the Bank Of Mesker, Col, but Are
Soon Afterwsrd Killed by Citisens-
A Drunken Man Killed by
His Adversary.

COLUMBUS, ill.,, OcI lo.-IDreo iuon
are dead and two seriously wounded,
Is the result OF q sensational tragedy
which shook Columbus TO It's founda-
ton yesterday. One Of the dead Is j.
A. White who was the cause Of the
whole trouble. White and his i0.year-
old son murdered In cold blood two
policemen and wounded two other men
who were in the party trying to arrest
them. The murdered officers are Rich.
ard NJ. Adams and William jackson.
White was formerly policeman. but
for several years has been In the shoe
business. He has been considered
eccentric, but not crazy. Yesterday he
became involved In quarrel In bar
room, and Adams and Mayfeld served
him with n summons to answer q
charge of disorderly conduct. This
maddened White, who made threats
against the officers. He went home,
got his Winchester and bought n sup
ply Of cartridges. He was Joined BY
his son, who was also armed. They
went to bar room and encountered
tho officers ~ told you to get
ready, and II you amt ready you
ought to be-" White called out
as he opened fire on Officers Adams and
jackson. Adams fell ut the first shot
Then jackson fell, begging the Whites
to stop firing. The father stood over
him, firing into his PROSTATE body.
The news OF the affair created intense
excitement Policeman Roberts went
to Whites house. knocked, was asked
In, and rs he stepped inside was fatally
wounded by ball from Whites gun.
The entire police force, armed with
Winchesters, and their party augmented
by the presence Of q large number OF
armed citizens, went to arrest the
Whites. The son had taken no part in
the last shooting, but had fired ut
both Adams and jackson. The Whites
home was surrounded and demands
made for surrender. The reply was q
shot which wounded boy in the
crowd. Then six officers went to the
house and broke down the doors. As
they sprang In White fred, wounding
Sergeant Pickett At the same time
White was shot. lie attempted TO
break through, but half dozen bullets
were put through his body. Henry,
the son, escaped to the Alabama side
of the river. A posse with blood
hounds is on his trail.
BANK ROBBERS SHOT TO DEATH.
MEEKHR, COL, Oct 1a-Three men
entered the Bank Of Meeker, which Is
connected with the store room OF j. W.
Hughes & Co., who own the bank.
Two OF the men held the store en-
ployes at bay. while the third went to
the hank cashiers window and firing
one shot, ordered the cashier TO throw
up his hands. The order was not
quickly obeyed and the robber fred
again, whcreupon the cashiers hands
went up. The manager OF the
store was then forced to open the
bank door, and after gathering up
all the money In sight the robbers
marched the cashier and store en-
ployes into the street with hands up
lifted. They then rushed out the back
way with their booty. Citizens at
tracted by the shots had surrounded
the building by this time and being
armed, opened fire on the robbers, two
Of whom, Charles Jones and William
Smith, were killed by the first volley
The third man, George Harris, wa
shot through the lungs, dying in two
hours. He Is fully identified and gave
the Others names, which are believed
TO be fictitious Four citizens vert
wounded.
KILLED HIS ADVERSARY.
MARIETTA, l. T., Oct l5.-Wil
sea.on, formerly OF fancy county
Mo-, fatally shot Horace Lausford yes
terday. Lansford, while drunk, mp
preached Seaton and fred at him
Seaton ran into livery stable, turned
and put two bullets through Lans
ford's heart. who lived but few min
utes Lansford leaves wife and thre'
children unprovided for, and was gen
orally inoffensive and had no grudg'
against Seaton, who is also wei
thought OF here. Seaton went to Ard
more and gave himself up to the fedora
authorities, where court Is now in ses
sion. He will no doubt be released oil
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