People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-11-16
The Work Of Vantals.

literally cut to pieces with a knife,
A nut from the buggy was thrown
through the glass door and narrowly
missed knocking over lighted lamp.
The work was undoubtedly the
OutgrOwth of the sentiment against
Mr.. Woods on account OF his connec-
ton with the arrest OF the jOintists
Friday, and was PROBABLY the work
Of saloon lOafers, and done of their
own accord.
The devilment was committed about
O'Clock in the morning. About hal
past o'clock, George Ousley, colored,
who works for Ed Hayes and lives
just across the alley from Mr.. Woods,
heard some boys or men talking on
the sidewalk north Of his residence.
He got up aud looked out of the
window and saw three persons In
consultation, but thinking they were
High school students out for fun, paid
no further attention to them. A
half hour later Mr.. Woods was awak.
ened by the DOise Of a buggy tap
thrown through The glass in his front
door. He got up and found the glass
broken out, the curtain streaked with
grease and the nut lying on the floor.
The barn by this time was afame,
and he ran out to save the horse, but
the horse had been cut loose and
turned out Of the barn. The horse
belonged to Judge W. T. Mcbride.
The phaeton wheels were leaning
against the barn, while the phaeton
had been carried around to the front
OF the house and left sitting under
the bay window, close up to the
building.
There were IS knife slashes IN the
phaetOn top, tenders, dashboard and
cushions, and the supporting rods to
the top we're bent as if struck with a
fence post. A fence post was jabbed
through the top and rested in an up
right position on the seat. The lamps
had been twisted partly around, and
the cross bar to the shafts was
broken as il someone had placed his
foot on one Of the shafts and lifted
the other as high as it would 70. The
back of the phaetOn was criSs-crOssed
with scratches made with the end OF a
closed knife.
The yandals had evidently cut the
horse loose first. They then mutilated
the phaetCn, took the wheels of and
leaned them up against the barn
where they would be destroyed by
Gre, and carried the wheelless phae-
ton around into the front yard. As
the match was touched TO the hay in
the barn, someone stood in the front
yard and threw the buggy tap
through the front door. 1t was evi.
IDENTIFY his intention to hit lighted
lamp which always burns in the room
in front Of the door, and cause it to
upset and set fire to the house.
The wheels Of the phseton we're
saved by Mr.. Woods, though one of
them was badly scOrchtd by the fire
and contained a broken spoke, caused
by striking with the fence post. A
portion Of the harness which had been
left in the buggy shed, was also
saved. The barn and its contents
were entirely destroyed before the
fire department arrived.
Mr.. Woods suspicious no one, but
believes it was the work Of irrespOn.
siOle loaferS, who thought they were
doing the jOintists a favor by such
acts OF vandalism.
Both the county and city officers
are working on the case. No arrests
have been made. Whoever had a
hand in that nights affair, certainly
has buggy grease on him somewhere,
as the grease was pretty well wiped
off the two front aXles of the phaeton
next morning. Mr.. Woods has offered
a reward of 500 for the arrest and
conviction of the guilty parties, and
the commissioners have offered 500
reward for their arrest and conviction.
The news of 10th: Admiral Dewey
and Mrs. Mildred Hazen were married
In Washington Yesterday morning. by