, 1896-10-28
COLD-BLO0DED MURDER.
MRS. WURL CAME TO HER DEATH
AT THE HANDS OF A
FIEND.
Her Skull Crushed With a Rock and
Cut With a Shovel-Throat Cut
From Ear to Ear-Wm. Wurl Re-
lates the Details of the Horrible
Crime-Robbery the Object.

The Tie Siding tragedy turns out to
be a cold-blooded murder. most helm
Que in its conception and o~utrageously
brutal in its elimination.
Mrs. Wurl's dead body noX lies at
the undertaking room of John w.
Stryker. having been brought to the city
this morning by Louis Wurl, he hus-
band. VIM. Wurl. his brother. and Fred
Burgemann, a nephew. The head OF
the deceased had been crushed with a
rock and horribly gashed with the edge
of a shovel, and the throat had been
but with a knife. Death must hav
resulted at once.
TRAGIC DETAILS.
VIM. Wurl. brother OF the husband,
who resides on TIE West Side. was seen
by a Republican representative this aft
ernoon and gave the following details
of the terrible tragedy. which are all
that is known at the present time.
On Monday Louis Wurl came to this
city with a load Of hay. leaving his
wife at the ranch. which is located on
Harvey creek two miles north of Tie
Siding. Between 10 and II o'clock she
went to the ranch of a neighbor, Mr..
Broderson, living about one and one
half miles distant. and returned to her
home about 2:30. Evidently she first
went into the house. O off the dress
which she had worn to the neighbor's
n started a fire, for the garment lay
upon the bed just where she had placed
it After the performance of these du-
ties she went to the barn for some pur-
pose and there met her fate. the inhu-
man fiend probably first striking her
with a huge boulder, crushing her skull,
and then finishing his terrible crime
with shovel and knife. The latter
weapon was found some distance out
side the barn.
Tuesday at 1890 Mr.. Wurl returned
to his ranch. He first entered the
house. and not finding anything of his
wife, presumed hat she was some
where about the ranch attending to du-
ties and proceeded with the are of his
team. When he led the horses to the
barn a CHASTITY and horrible spectacle
presented itself to his view. There up
or the floor lay his wife. cold in death
and covered with gore. The body lay
upon its back.
The first impulse Of the husband vas
to pick up his wife and carry her to the
house, where he placed her upon the
bed. He then hastened to his sisters
place, Mrs. Burgemann. about one-half
mile southeast and sent his nephew,
Fred Burgemann to Tie Siding to wire
the sheriff to come. On returning to
his ranch he hade a more complete ex-
animation. and discovered what he at
first thought might have been suicide
was nothing less than a cold-blooded
murder. for the wounds were of such a
nature that they could not have been
self-inflicted.
The sheriff and several parties from
Tie Siding oon arrived and examined
in detail the surroundings. 1t was
Sheriff Grant who discovered the knife.
~ a lloli liz Sttllt vi liz
tragedy. In the house it was discov-
cred that the furniture had been dis
turbed and the bed tumbled up some
what. evidently by the fiend in his
search for money. A little box which
contained about 500 had been robbed
, of its contents with the exception OF
perhaps two or three dollars. Why this
sum was left is a mystery. While at
Mrs. Broderson's Mrs. Wurl received
35 cents. which she placed in her glove
and had evidently put This in the box
after she got home. as the gloves were
empty.
1t is believed by Mr.. Wurl that the
deed was committed by some person
who had made himself familiar with
the place and had watched the actions
of the lady after returning home, steal
ing up behind her in the barn and deal
ing the deadly blow.
Frank Powers. an engineer at Red
Buttes, states that OF the day OF the
murder a man came into Tie Siding
with scratches upon his face. He told
he story at the Siding tina he had
been robbed. This man has not been
seen since.
Coroner Miller held an inquest at
Tie Siding today, the result of which
had not been received in this city up
to the hour ID going to press.
Sheriff Grant is still at the scene OF
the tragedy.
Deceased was SO years old and leaves
no children.
THAT JOYFUL FEELING
With the celebrating sense Of renew