The twice=a=week herald. (Amarillo, Tex.) 1887-1906, 1906-10-09
"A VICTIM OF FOUL Play
FACE TERRIBLY HACKED

his front teeth. his tongue Is swol-
len and cakod I'm speech Would be
almost nm lmpossibiliiy.
Stories of the Street
The Nervousness Of the criulc aud
the battling mystery surrounding #
have made II the subject Of much
talk and conjecture IN every part Of
the city. 40 less than five missing
men have been mentioned ana In
,estlgatcd rs possible solutions 10 jhe
identity nj Inc hoy In som" eases
The likeness WIS very small, In others
there were many points of similarity
between thc unconscious victim and
The person In question.
Being The subject Of common tain,
tho crime has glyon rise 10 the Wild
est stories Of Tho circumstances at
tending the discovery OF tho hoy, AS.
matter Of sober fact tncrc are few
developments beyond those outlined
in Yesterdays Daily Panhandle
Search Of the Rock Island Trains
The whole story Is startling proof
Of the paradox that truth is strang
or than fiction" The boy was found
within q few feet OF The switch On
the Rock island Y and moi three feet
from rho track. Several COWS we're
stakcd near the spot Ahoul 8
O'Clock on the afternoon Of the dis,
covcry, woman took a bucket of
water TO her COW aud crossed The
track within few feet Of the spot
whore The hoy was found within a.
hundred yards Of the spot and With
out the slightest obstruction to their
view, three mon were At work till
after o'clock on The Rock Island
round house. These men say that ono
train of engine and one car ran up
The Y some time during the after
noon and switched Back VI the boy
had been there at that time, the
brakeman who threw the switch
could not have failed seeing him,
These workmcn donyt think that any
other train came orf%ihe Y during
the Afternoon
No Record Of Special Train
One story that gained considerable
credence and has been yOuched for
by good authority IS that a special
freight train ran in on the Y about
5 O'Clock Mrs. Ward, who disCov-
cred the man abdue ESQ, says that
she heard the freight whistle and
thought II was her husbands engine
She looked out and saw a train on
the flying the white flags of spe-
cial. Mrs. Ward does not remember
seeing men ather than the crew about
the train. Other reports have 1t, that
one woman saw eight hobos get off
one of the cars and get in again
when the train started.
HOb0S on Rock Island Train
Mi Hardy and Mr.. Meirholz who
were at the round house in full view
OF the switch do not remember such
train nor any such men, Wednes-
day morning both men remember
seeing eight hobos crawl in an empty
car on the east bound freight The
brakeman came along and locked the
door Of the car ana Meirholz re-
marked that the buns were billed
for through ride" This freight
train went east shortly after
o'clock
Yesterday in the Rocl, Island Off
ces, no record of train with empties
which ran onto the could be found.
Where Is the Blood Stained Car?
The one conclusion that seems to
be warranted is that In some box car
tho body was brought to the scene
of the discovery or near 20 the place.
Then in some cat there must be
blood stains from the wounds made
by the murderers on the body Of the
victim Unless the clothes have been
burned there must ,be somewhere
these tell-tale evidences Of the crime, |
No trace of such evidence has been
found. but the news has been fari
spread and many eYes are looking
for the traces. on course, such is
the sheer unreasonableness Of the
crime, even this conjecture may be
false and the scene of the crime may
be nearer than this supposed freight
ear
The Operation and the Wounds
Yesterday afternoon Drs. Shirley
and McMeans performed the delicate *
operation OF trehanuius on the skull |
1f the boy. His head is fractured
N several places and TO relieve the
compression of the splintered bone
lpon the brain, the surgeons re- !
moved two fragments of his skull.
One just over his left ear was about !
wo inches long and an inch broad s
The other little above the .irst '
vas about half as large II The in 9
nry 10 the hrnin has nnL nlrendYl 4