Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-17
ROSCOE HORNBAKER is FREE
Jury Returns Verdict of Not Guilty on
Charge of Numbering Louisburg
Postmaster.

ROSCOG 1OTnDdkGT, charged Will Inc
murder of George McElheny at Louis
burg on the night of October 4. 1912,
has been acquitted. The jury, which
retired about O'Clock, reached YER
dict after two ballots, only one juror
favoring conviction on the first vote.
Horn baker and a number of his
relatives met the jury after it had
been dismissed by the court, and to
each Hornbaker extended his hand.
Mrs. Maude McElheny, widow of the
slain man, and her two children were
in the court room. She took the YER
dict quietly
The court had instructed the jury
that the verdict must be either for
murder in the first degree or acquit-
tai, and cautioned the jury against
giving undue credence to circumstan-
tial evidence.
The instructions of the court to
the jury worked strongly against con-
| viction," said B. J. Carver, prosecut-
ing attorney of Miami county. 1.-THE
| throwing out of all evidence that bore
| the mereSt element of circumstance
| gave the prosecution little upon which
| to base its side of the case, since
Hornbaker made an alibi that could
be weakened only by the showing of
| apparent Inconsistencies
|
Slayer Got 55 Years.-George A
Post pleaded guilty to the charge of
second degree murder of his son, Roy
June 2, at Mcpherson. He asked the
clemency of the court and received
thirty-five years in prison
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! Fall Fatal to Woman.-Mrs. Eliza
beth Baldwin, rs years old. is dead at
Salina. A month ago she fractured
her hip in a fall. Her husband and
seven children survive.
Stung by Tarantula.-Pearl Payne,
aged 16, was stung by tarantula at
Fort Scott the other day. The insect
was inside bunch of bananas Ply
sicians say that Payne will live.
!
Soldiers Drowned at RiIey.-Five
men. four of them negro soldiers at
| Fort Riley, were drowned in the Re-
publican river at Junction City when
| a small boat capsized. Private Dor
man, a horseshoer of Troop /. Thir-
teenth Cavalry, the only survivor of
the party, reached shore after an I'M
| successful struggle to save his COM
panions in the surging flood waters.
private WnlI0, a SaQuIGT, WINS
one of the men drowned. The bodies
have not been recovered and the iden-
tity of the other drowned men has not
been established. As part of the ne
gro detachment at the post is water
bound in Junction City. it may be
some time before the names of the
drowned men can be established
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! Pioneer Merchant Dies.-W. r. Nc
Donald, an early merchant of Win
field. died at his home there recently.
He went there in 1878. He served in
the Union army during the Civil war.
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Baby browns i'm Tank.-Raymond d,
t the 20-months-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
, Kasper Helm. farmers near Salina,
was drowned when he fell into a tank
of water in the barnyard.
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New Church for Lyons-At a Metho-
!, dist rally at Lyons for the purpose of
i raising funds for a new church, more
than $4,000 was subscribed. Dr. F.
i E. Mossman. president OF Southwest
ern college at Winfield, conducted the
financial campaign The members OF
the church are planning to erect a
: building at cost of about $50, 0O0
( Golden Wedding at Atchison-Mr
. and Mrs. Charles Terry, who have
( lived in Atchison forty years, recently
a celebrated their fftieth wedding ami