Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-05-26
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prietOr of the meat market near the
court house, was found horribly man
gled, in a deep ditch about seventy
feet behind his shop. A deep cash
about three inches long was cut dag
onslly across the corner of the chin by
some instrument thought to be a
Ratchet, which had been welded with
such force as to deeply penetrate the
the jaw bone. A heavy blow, appsr
emily struck With the side or back of q
Ratchet or ak mashed In the side Of his
head back Of his right eye and another,
as DR.. Colladay testified, at the in
quest, seeming to have been struck
with the back Of Ratchet, had crushed
in the base Of the skull at the back
side of The head.
The left pocket of the dead man was
turned wrong side out and the other
partially so. II he had any money it
was taken; so also were his keys. His
pocket knife lay near the body.
The first to find the body were Oscar
Barstow, the barber, and W. D. Fisher
the liverymsn, who reported to the pO-
lice This was about $50 Friday mora
ing, and when the coroner came and
examined the body it was cold and
stiff, showing that the murder had been
committed early in the night. While
the two or three men who had found
the murdered man were talking, Glen
Boyd, his brother and partner in the
meat shop. came up and recognized
the chastity remains of his brother.
The evidence of the man who first
found him, and also of Policeman
Monroe, showed that there were sew,
eral tracks on the east side of the
ditch and two on the west side, appar-
emily made by two men, one larger than
the other, and that the body had evil
IDENTIFY been carried there with the
head wrapped in his coat, probably for
the purpose of keeping the blood from
trailing, for while he had not bled pro-
fusely there was quite pool OF blood
where he had lain. The policeman
claimed to have been able to track the
two men to within about ten feet from
the back door of Mrs. PosLhlewait's
restaurant, which is next door to the
the shop. At one place about twenty
feet from where the body lay in the
ditch, the officer said it looked as if
they had laid him down, and there
we're finger marks as though made in
picking him up. AT other places near
the door it looked as if the heels had
dragged, and near the ditch as though
more Of the body had touched the
ground. This testimony was largely
confirmed later by VIM. Hsnchett,
/ who handles horses. He claimed to
have found some blood along the trail,
Mrs. Posthlewait testified that Boyd
ate supper at her restaurant about Z
O'Clock, was around again during the
evening. She said she was sick and
went to her room up stains at O'Clock.
Boyd was In the restaurant then. She
came down at about 10 O'Clock. He
was there. He had complained that
some people didn't know how to attend
their own business. Near II O'Clock
she had sent her little boy to Attorney
E. @. Clark to have him come over aud
see If he could tell her what to do; she
believed she had taken too much med
icine. He came over, laughed and told
her to keep on putting cloths wrung
out of hot water on her side. When
asked if she had not caused spot in
the floor in her restaurant to be mop
ped Friday morning, she denied it.
E. G. Clark confirmed her testimony 80
far as he was concerned. Her son
Harry testified that Boyd had been at
the restaurant till about II o'clock and
left by the front door. Boyd had been
cursing some one because he could
not keep his mouth shut Harry Pos
thlewait is the only one so far that
claims to have seen him leave the res
taursnt. John Hedrick was at the
restaurant at about II O'Clock, ate a
piece of pie and drank a glass of lem
Onade. The little boy waited on him.
Boyd was in the restaurant when he
left, which must have been about HOS.
Mr.. J. NJ. McVay testified that be
and Gene Woods had been at the res.
taurant about 9:2O and, with Boyd,
drank glass of beer. 1t was ordered
of the little boy Clyde, who brought it
from some where. Said Boyd sp-
pesred to be somewhat intoxicated, but
In very good humor then.
Wade Moore was at the restaurant
about IL o'clock. Two voices behind
the curtains were talking and one sp-
peared angry. Did not know who they
were.
Mrs. Smith who is nursing sick
woman, Mrs Main, up stairs across the
Ill Al l..