The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-04

Guthrie, o. T., Feb. 3.-More matter
is in the killing of Wash Phillips, men
/ ton Of which has been made in the
( Eagles dispatches. The Medicine
! Lodge Cresset says: The first init
nation in this city Of serious trouble
/ was the arrival Of Wash Phillips son,
! George, on Friday afternoon after a
warrant and an officer; stating that his
/ father had left home on Wednesday,
had not returned and that they feared
/ the Eiklors had killed him. Sheriff
/ Mills being out with Messrs. Wright
and Dunning after the EiklOr cattle,
j. b. Gano went out to look after the
matter.
Friday night a young man named
Holmes-a nephew of J. p. Hall, and
J. S. Runyon-came in with the news
that the body Of Wash Phillips had
been found dead from gunshot wounds
and with a note from Sheriff Mills 10
send the Coroner out.
Saturday morning Coroner Cushen-
berry, County Attorney Beals, G. A.
Hibbard and F. Z. Reed went down TO
hold the inquest.
1t seems that Wash Phillips left his
home Wednesday on horseback and
armed with a Winchester. AS he did
not return a search was instituted and
on Friday morning his body was found.
The coroner's inquiry held where
the body was found showed that Phil
. lips had died from gunshot wounds,
He had been shot tn the breast with
big turkey shot, but these did him no
damage, only few of them barely pen
etrating the skin; one Winchester ball
had entered at the right side of the
lower jaw at corner of mouth; another
Winchester ball had entered left side
of neck. and had been fired so close
that the flash OF the gun had set his
neck tie on fire; while two more had
penetrated the abdomen. The two
balls that pierced the body came out
about the left shoulder and were found
inside the vest. One ball, supposed TO
be the one that went in at the neck,
came out at the back of the head and
was also secured.
At the inquest a thorough examina-
ton Of witnesses was had. The Elk
lors told their story, Sheriff IiIls and
others testified and the verdict was as
follows.
That the said G.. w. Phillips came TO
his death by gunshot wounds inflicted
by Fred 3. Eiklor, Sidney EiklOr and
Arnell Eiklor, on the 22d day of Jan
uary, 1896, feloniously and with malice
aforethought.
G.. A. HIBBARD,
FRANK KINCAID,
ROY H. HALL,
WILLIAM MAIZE,
ARTHUR NORLETT.
]. B. JOHNSON.
Coroner's Jury.
Sunday all parties from this city, ex-
cept Sheriff Mills, came home. The
sheriff waited 10 bring in the Eiklor
cattle. J. 3. Gano brought the Elk
lors-F. B., Sidney and Arnell-in TO
jail.
One popularity about the proceed
ings, both where the body was found
and at Aetna, was that no one seemed
10 think of the possibility that the
killing might have occurred in some
other county besides Barber until quite
late. We understand that the question
was not raised until the cOTOner's in
quiIy was almost completed, and then
not much Importance was attached to
il; in fact, the question was not ser
iOusly discussed until all parties ar
rived in town and found that to be al
most the principal question. Barber
county not being flush with money, IS
a matter Of course the location of the
scene Of the crime In murder trial
promising TO cost between $1,000 and
$4,000 was important, especially if it
could be proved TO be in another county
North
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