The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-03
WERE BOTH CRIMES?
Developments Liable in the
Case of Sewer Boys.
FATHER Is INVESTIGATING
Wants Grand Jury at Kansas
City TO Indict.

This week a sensation to Wichita will
beyond doubt. be sprung in Kansas City
Missouri, in regard to the death Of the two
Sewers boys.
The two Sewers boys were the sons o.
Fred Sewers OF this city and both were
well known here. The boys were hard
workers and made their daily bread as
the majority of mankind, the only differ
cree being that both were understood 10 De
on the will. as big benenciaries' o. q -
relative somewhere in the east
Percy Sewers. the elder boy was
ieweler by trade, learning his pFoLeSsl,,i
here in Wichita under Nl-ilam -
Some years ago he went TO Chleaso anu
into business there. Then ne became
iorrnevman. one day, about one year
and a half ago. his parents received Wolu
-b- PERCY had been found dead near Ooer-
lin. Kansas. IL a cornheld, with d pune
hole through his head. He was going 10
Kansas City from Denver
Fred Sewers, the father, was tnuhaeI-
struck at the news. Poverty did not aFlNe
the Young man TO suicide as ne hao al
that moment 500 in the bank here IN
Wichita and he was not of morose DIS
,osirion and had no affairs Of the heart
Rur the story came out from the Kansas
town that is was a case Of suicide, the
ccroner's Jury so decided and all that was
left of Percy, known 10 every boy IN
Wichita of his same age as schoolmate'
was laid away, his frineds and reiauVes
wondering why he had committed suicide
who had so many bright prospects IN the
world.
The second son, Percy's younger bro
Their was located in Kansas City. 1t was
during last May that wsd came out from
Kansas City that train had run over the
Younger. brother and killed him. This was
another shock to Mr.. Sewers, who went al
once TO Kansas City, where he evidently
found circumstances so suspicious that he
at once took the traI. How far he went
and what he found is not known, but it Is
said that he has discovged that Percy was
not a suicide and that the younger boy
was not killed BY accident. but that both
were murdered, and by the same man or
men.
Soon after the death OF the younger
brother and son. the coroner OF Wyandotte
county sent to Mr.. Fred Sewers a bundle
Of letters from the pocket OF the dead boy.
These letters were sneared with blood and
in the case Of two OF the letters were
bloody finger-prints plainly 70 be seen
From other circumstances known 10 him
alone. and from a suspicion he had always
had in respect to the death Of Percy MI
Sewers was convinced that the younger
brother was murdered. He began at once
an investigation OF the alleged accident
leaving Wichita about four weeks ago to
search thoroughly into the matter. The
body had been picked up from the tracks
o. the Union Pacific in Wyandotte county,
Kansas Now the father asserts that the
son was murdered in Kansas City, No,
that night in May; that the body was then
hauled in a wagon 10 Wyandotte county
and placed on the Union Pacific track
there where the first passing train COW
cred up the evidences Of crime.
The letters with the bloody fnger-prints
he took 70 Health Officer Shirk OF kansas
City. with the request that the bloody let
tArs be given to City Chemist McNey, VINO
should determine whether the blood STAINS
on the letters were human blood or not
Saturday last the chemist, after a thor
ough investigatiOn,re reported that the STAINS
we're OF human blood.
HAYES of Kansasshrdu. olshrdlucmfwypsh
Mr.. Sewers also got Chief OF Police
HAYES Of Kansas City and Chief of Detec-
lives Halpin interested in the case and
they set two detectives 20 work It is
claimed bv Nh Sewers that he now has
sufficient evidence collected to secure an
Indictment for murder against someone. he
will not vet name. The grand Jury at Kan
sas city, No. meets this week and Will be
asked to indict.
II an Indictment follows, sensation viii
be forthcoming The death Of Percy and
his younger brother was mystery TO
their friends IN Wichita
II they were murdered II vas probably
by design against both OF them, as their
father believes, and the developments VII
be watched with great interest