The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-08
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around % the east hay window Z feT
seconds before and had thrown light II
on their -sther's face for fun and as they
goI around 10 The east door. the shot was
fred which ended Tho life OF Winfield :
best citizen The shot entered the south
panel Of the bay window through the
lower sash and struck Montgomery II and
about the left eye and in the chest The
same discharge hit the lamp sitting o. the
table and altered II. spillirS the OIL over
the table and foor. and setting the house
on fire. Mrs Montgomery. OF hearing
the shot, rushed into the roou and saw
her husband lying on the floor. the lamp
shattered, and 4 s-au sized blaze started
She then supposed that ths lamp had ex-
pl0ded and hurt he- husband. not suspect
ing that he rad been shot She rushed &C
the door and out into The yard. calling for
help and shouting that TIE house was on
FIRE She returned 70 the room and with
the assistance OF naighbors, who had al
ready started for the house, On hearing
the shot, succeeding II sm0thering the
IRE and throwing the tablecloth and
pieces Of shattered glass into the yard.
NJ. z. E Rogers. who lives across the
street from Montgomerys. vas the first
person 70 enter the house after the shot
was fired She entered through the east
door and as she got into the hall leading
70 the sitting room. Montgomery said his
last words. NY God. I an shot" She
hurriedly went TO him and raised his head
He gasped a few minutes and died Med
zeal aid vas Immediately summoned and
the dead man vas carried By loving hands
and placed on a bed in al adjoining room
IN few moments word spread up town
and the county officers and many people
hurried 70 the scene. The house ard yard
were carefully examined IN hopes OF find
ing a clue to the murderer. None we're
found Saturday night The murderer
stood AZ a fence 70 the east Of the hose,
which IS about thirty feet distant. took
deliberate aim, and fred at his victim.
who could be plainly seen through the
window. The buckshot made Al aperture
II the glass about six inches n diameter.
which, judging from the way shot scat
tiers would place the murderer back about
the distance OF the fence. Another thing
which led many TO believe that the muir
derer stood at the fence was the fact that
midway between the fence and the win
dow, some gun wads were found, which
would concIusively prove that he stood
near the fence. II was thought ar the
time by many, that the shot vas fred
from buggy, OF which tracks were seen
circled in near the fence. close fnspec-
ton Of these tracks disclosed the fact
that they were not made recently: and
besides a man firing from the buggy could
not have gotten the range he did by
shooting out OF 8 buggy. Some OF the
shot struck the opposite wall Of the sit
aperture II the window The theory OF
a man shooting from a buggy has been
thrown aside, Tor when a careful i1spec-
ton was made OF the ground Sunday
morning tracks were found running
across the read. which are thought 70 BE
those Of the murderer.
Il IS suspected universally II Winfield
that 8Ir. Montgome-y's murderer, Il only
ore, lives IN a ranch on oklahoma He
has had trouble with cowboys and. it IS
said. they have threatened his life. IN
fact. II Is said at Winfield that he left a
written statement. prepared some tine
ago, 10 the effect that if he was killed.
Il would be BY these cowboys. The state
ment goes into details concerning the
trouble he has had with them and the
threats they have made against his life
Thss paper 5 now in the hands Of Chief
Detective Hamilton. Of the Santa Re.
who is at Winfield VITA a force OF men