The Sentinel=record., 1911-09-21
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puzzLiNo MURDER COMMITTED AT COLORADO SPRINGS sEv-
 ERAL DAYS AGO.
Six Persons Grained While Asleep in rhiekly Populated Section and the
 Crime Unknown for Three Days

Colorado Springs, Colo, Sept 2O-- Murdered in their homes by some unknown persons who used an axe. the bodies of six persons, three in each of two neighboring houses. were found Ihere this afternoon. The heads of all the victims had been crushed and the appearance of the bodies indicated they had been dead several days and that death came while they slept.
 A report that the murderer mas been caught and that he has con fessed but this Is denied by the po- | flee here who feared a lynchng might follow such an announcement.
 An axe which last week had been loaned to Mrs. Henry r. Wayne. one of the victims by ]. R. Evans, q neighbor. was found h'oodstained by Mrs. Evans on Monday near the back door of the Wayne home. No attention was paid to this fact. how ever, as it was thought the axe had been used in killing chickens. The dead:
 Mrs. Alice May Bunham, wife of A. J Burnham, cook at the Modern lWocdmen sanitarium.
 Two children, Alice 6. and John Burnham, aged 5.
 Henry F. Wayne a consumptive. until recently patient at The Wood man sanitarium.
 Mrs. Wayne and their one year old baby girl.
 Discovery of the bodies was made lby neighbor who called at the Burnham home to spend the after noon. Not getting any response and noticing strong odor, she forced an entrance.
 The bodies of Mrs. Burnham and those of her two children were found in their beds which were coy- cred with blood and the walls and ceiling was also spattered.
 The woman rushed to the street and gave the alarm. dozen per sons instantly went to the Wayne house where there had been no signs of life since Sunday Covered in bed as though in their natural sleep, were the bodies of Mir. and Mrs. Wayne and their sbaby, all horribly mangled as in the case of the bodies of the Burnham house.
 That such a crime had been com mitted in thicltly settled neighbor hood and left unrevealed for three days is regarded as incredible.
 Not even a footprint is to be found on the floor of either house and not person could be found who had seen anyone about the premises sisce Sunday afternoon. when all the murdered persons were at different times in a neiehboring grocery store.
 So far as can be learned there 's Inc motive for the crime. Both the Burnham and Wayne families were Iof moderate means.
 Burnham, who lives at the sanl- ltarium where he is employed, was sarrested soon after the discovery of the crime, but there seems noshing to duplicate him in the tragedy. lHis employers say he was at work when the crime must have been com lmitted. He was last seen at his nome Sunday afternoon and Is said to have left there about o'clock Little is known of the Wayne fafn- lily here.
 One month ago Wayne brought his wife and child to this city and rent ed the house in which they were murdered Neither had any rela- tives here.
 When brought into the morgue Che bodies were almost unrecognizable. The head of every one was either cut or smashed open and in almost every case the number of wounds is- dicated that the murderer had cut and smashed until he was sure ne had destroyed life.