The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-28
An Entire Family Found Dead
In Kansas City.
Children and Wife of G. w.
Green of the Big Four.
SHOT AS THEY SLEPT.
Children Lay In Bed the Mother
on the Floor.
Mother SuppOs ed to Have Done
the Deed While Insane.

Kansas City, No. Aug. 2S.-Neigh-
bors who broke into the home of c. W.
Green, travelling passenger agent OF
the Big Four railway this forenoon.
found the three children, two boys.
aged respectively 13 and years, and a
girl. aged 9, lying dead in bed. They
mad been shot and instantly killed as
they slept. In another part of the
house, Mrs Green, also dead, lay upon
the floor, her body wet with blood. The
woman, supposedly, while temporarily
insane. had apparently first killed her
children, then dispatched herself, using
a revolver.
None of the neighbors had seen any
of the Green family since Wednesday.
Wednesday night, between 1 and 2
o'clock, some of them recalled today,
they had heard shots coming from the
direction of the Green house, but no
particular attention was paid to the
matter. This forenoon H. d. Clark, a
neighbor, called at the house, and find
ing no sign of life opened a window and
began an investigation.
Nothing on the first floor indicated
that anything was wrong, and he Went
upstairs. There in their bed lay the
three children, the bedclothing and
themselves beSpattered with blood that
had oozed from their wounds. Each had
an ugly bullethOle in the head, plainly
indicating the manner Of their death
The bedclOthes were hardly mussed-
showing the children to have died with
out a struggle.
Further search revealed the body Of
Mrs. Green stretched across the thresh-
hold of her own bedroom. A revolver
lay at her side. She was dressed in a
nightgown and had apparently sudden
Iy become crazed in the night, risen and
committed the terrible crime She IS
said to have been addicted to mOrpnine.
Mrs. Green was 38 years old Mr.
Green who is the travelling passenger
agent for this territory for the Big
Four railroad, left the city week ago
last Tuesday for trip to Salt Lake
City with Mr.. Lynch, assistant passeu-
ger agent of that road.
Denver, Aug. 2S.-W. c. Green, traV-
cling passenger agent of the Big Eour
railroad, left Denver for Kansas CITY
on the 1 o'clock train on the kansas
Pacific railroad this afternoon, IN lgno-
rance of the tragedy that has robDeQ
him of his wife and three children he
was accompanied by Assistant Rassen-
ger Agent Lynch.
The sad news will be broken 20 9tI.
Green as gently as possible during ms
tourney Friends of the family mere
deny that Mrs. Green was addicted 70
the use of morphine.
Mr.. Green expressed soI1clLude LOT
his family while here as he had not
heard from home in several days.
Kansas City, Aug. 2S.-BOth have
well-tO-do relatives in the east Green
came to Kansas City from Fort wayne
Ind in 1885, and for time was tray
cling passenger agent for the wabash
with a territory in Kansas and color
ado. His sister married James Smith
formerly traffic manager of the Wa
hash Mrs Green recently returned
from a trip east, where she went to
bury a sister. She is described BY her
neighbOrs as a very eXcltdDle woman
and the death of her sister, 1t IS bel1eV-
ed. proved upon her mind. Green is
s11nnosed to be in Denver. but kilograms
to that city have so far failed to locate
him.