The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-07-30

LasJ Friday Afternoon Gul-Iaceas
hlende-haired youth, Just merging into
manhood, sst in the Office Of =. p
Leonard, a local notary public. quietly
answering the qustions put TO him By
the counsel conducting the deposition
in the interest OF the parties to the re-
pleyil suit of Moore xs. Dunn which
comes up for hearing ia a Wallace
county court this week. No one, from
the youths appearance, would associate
him with anything bat the ordinary in
human events. There vas nothing IL
his personality suggesting that his had
been the chief actors part in any OF
Life's bloody tragedies. But the mark
of Cain branded on his brow that the
gods may know his hand has been Dip
ped in the ufe-blood of his fellow,
was not for mortal eyes to scan. The
boy was Fred Mckinley whose hand
sent human being out Of the bright
sunlight Of life and his soul into the
darkness and uncertainty Of deaths
domain; his was the deed that brought
q father and brother to the gibbet Of
vigilante. A few years ago a Wallace
county rsnehman by the name Of Cor
ley fell in love With a neighbor's
daughter by the name Of Mckinley
The mother Of the girl favored the
union, but Mckinley bitterly opposed
it. Love triumphed and the two we're
married one day in the Office of the
probate judge of Sherman county. The
mother gave the bride away, the father
arriving too late to stay the ceremony.
That was the beginning of the feud aud
little things occurring later on added
to the bitterness. One spring morn
ing Fred Mckinley, then about 10
years of age, arrived at the CoFley place
and volunteered to assist in the spring
work. Was this the olive branch? So
Corley thought as he accepted the prof.
fered aid. That evening Corley vent
out to replenish the fire in hot-bed,
and young Mckinley went With him.
That was the last ever seen Of Corley
alive except by he who took his life.
The next morning the anxious wife dis
covered a drove Of, hogs feeding upon
some object near the hot bed. It was
the corpse of him who had been her
husband. 4 bloody mattox and the
tracks in the damp, yielding earth,
told the story all too plainly. The two
had gone to the hot-bsd together and
while Corley was piling fuel into Che
furnace, young Mckinley had driven
the dull blade of the msttox into the
brain Of Corley from behind. The i'm
prints in the soil showed where the
body fell and where it had been turned
over and more wounds inflicted. The
hogs had added to the horribleness OIL
the mutilatiOn Meanwhile young FREQ
was speeding westward, riding the
saddle pony of his victim. He Wai
oYertaken a few miles over the Colora
do line. He admitted his guilt. but as
serted his brother and father told hin
to do it. The three McKinleys Wert
arrested and put in the county jail a
Sharon Springs, but for fear the tWt
men might influence the younger Il
make different statement the sheriff
quietly took Fred to WsKeeuey. Tina
night band of masked men, orderl,
but Determined, surrounded the Wallac
county Jail. The doors were battere,
in and the two trembling wretche
taken to the Union Pacific bridge acros
the Smoky Hill and hanged. One 0
that band carried from the seen
new rope in the end of which a noos
was fashioned and only two humal
forms swung in the night bFeezes wher
it was intended three should sWin(
Fred was tried, but owing to his yout
he was let off with a reprimand. h
never goes back to his boyhood home
or visits the scene of his bloody crime
for there are men there who still believ
that be who sheddeth mans blood sha
pay the penalty with his own.
The normal physiology class ha
demonstrated that heat adds weigh
to bodies, Probably this is the rsaso
some little men, who hardly balanO
the scales at ordinary times, get fgh
ing not and imagine they weigh tol
The Wheel-women of Goodiand ha7
tried out the golf cap and the moi
recherche "sOmbrerO," but find, for al
around comfort and use, the humb
sunbOnnet to possess more advantag:
than either of the others.
The woman who is casting devils OF
Of the people of Topeka couldn't hay
found a better location. II she ca
hold a monopoly on the business she
up against better thing than KIOl
dixie placer.
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