Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-12-15
puokworth Trngedy.

The ST, LOUIS Post Dispatch, of We'd
nesday, explains the shooting OF Elliott
Duckwortb, that occurred in st, Louis
In June, 1906, aud resulted in his death
in the asylum for the blind, ut Kansas
City, November lS, 1893
According TO the story, Duckworth
came to ut, Louis, from springfield,
Missouri, to meet Edward l.. Doing,
an Indiana bank cashier, who In letter
had offered him position. Before
meeting Doing, Duckworth, who had
registered at the Planters hotel, went
out to Forest park, where he was found,
the same day, badly wounded, with n
bullet hole in bis head and a revolver
lying beside him, IL was apparently a
case of suicide. LII the wounded man q
pocket was found card bearing these
words.
IL am Edward l.. Doing, Of Terre
llaute. In case Of accident"
Doing, 1t appears, was wanted for
emDez2lng thirty thousand dollars
from hank in a Sun Ill town, near
rerre Haute. He disappeared, about
the time he wrote the letter to Duck
worth, making the ST. Louis appoint
ment with tue latter. Dolng ant
Duckworth, who were not acquainted
personally, resembled each other To
remarkable degree. Duckworth wat
decoyed to that city by poling, ant
shot, a card with the latter's name OF
IL put 10 his pocket, aud the wounded
man passed off upon the police ant
public as the missing embezzler.
Duckworth, revealing his ideDtit!
later, was taken home by his sister
Mrs. Eva y. Hutchinson, OF lIutchin
son. The wounded man lost his eye
sight from the wound. He denied tina
he had attempted TO commit suicide
and said he remembered nothing Of TIN
shooting. Doling is still at large, an
the police are searching for him, on th
charges Of embeZzlement and murder
Mrs. &. W. Rexraod, of Springfield,
sister of Duckworth, makes pablo th
following letter, which forms an impor
tant connecting link in the circums
tantial evidence ia the case:
10 Ellio t l., DUckworth, Spring
field, Missouri:
"rerre Haute, Ind, June 10, 1897
Dear Friend | have good positio
for a young man Of your age, In 81
Louis. You have been recommends
, to me by a friend, who says he think
D you will ill this position admirably.
you think you would like good pos
F.. tion, one ia which you will be given
opportunity to rise, l will talk wit
, you. II you decide to investigate N
, offer, meet me at the Planters hote
st. Louis, at two o'clock on the afte
noon of June IA. Write me, addressir
: me care of the Planters hotel, st Loui
Hoping for a favorable answer, r
main, your sincere friend and We
wisher. EDWARD l. DoLING, y"
Duckworth died at the Kansas inst
tute for the blind in Kansas City, {
Friday, November H. lie had been
only since the Wednesday before, al
e 1t was the opinion OF the physician
;, that the old wound was the indIre
n cause of his death. The wound broug
a on blindness and he was taken to h
h asylum about two years ago, by his 81
II ter, at Hutchinson. To the pupils al
=. teachers in the asylum he said that
a did not know the man who shot hi
:. lie told them about the letter frC
u Doling, which took him to st. Lou
" but he said he had never seen the ma
v Another later report from the PC
q Dispatch Gays that representative
~ that paper looking up the record Of I
y man Doing found him TO be not
a. embezzling bank cashier but an
TO round thug, crook and confidence m
"a for whom the officers were hot on