The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06
KANSAS GIRL TEACHER SLAIN
Southwestern Part of State Aroused
by Discovery of Nellie Byers'
Body in Grant County.

After an all night search for the
body of Nellie Byers, school teacher,
was found hidden under a pile of
leaves and weeds in Southern Grant
county recently.
She had been outraged, her clothing
torn off and she was choked to death.
Miss Byers left her school at the usual
time in the afternoon to walk to her
boarding house. Her non-appearance
started a search which grew in pro-
portions until practically the entire
county, which is sparsely populated.
was engaged.
A message was sent to the county
officers at Dodge City to examine pas
sengers on the Santa Fe train which
reaches there from the only railroad
in the Southwest, about o'clock
The settlers also put in a call for
bloodhounds and aroused the South
west by telephone and telegraph.
Miss Byers was about "a years old
and the daughter of one of the Oldest
families in the county. Her father was
once representative from Grant coun-
ty, but it now dead.
Bloodhounds from Concordia fol-
lowed trail from the lonely spot near
Satanic, where the young school
teacher was attacked and murdered,
to a farm house nearby, where Archi-
bald Sweet, a farm hand, slept the
night Of the murder. Later Sweet gave
himself into the hands of the Grant
county sheriff. He declared he sought
protection; he denied guilt.
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Played Too Hard.-Clifford Russell,
15-year-old son of George Russell, 1iv-
ing six miles northwest of Harper,
died soon after arriving home from
school the other day. He had left
home well. In the afternoon the faith
er drove past the school house and
noticed his son outside i'll. He was
taken home and died within an hour
1t is believed over exertion in sport
affected his heart.
Motor Car Upsets; Kills One
Harry Moorehead OF Troy was killed
in a motor car accident half a mile
east Of Beattie recently. Moorehead
and Conrad Scho1ze and Edna White,
Sara Price and Daisy Benson Of Beat
| tie were returning home when the
was instantly killed.
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Big Dog Drowned a Boy.-Knocked
from a narrow footbridge by a big
dog, Joseph Bond, an S-year-old boy
OF Mineral, was drowned in a pond
the other day. The boy, with several
| others, was sitting on the bridge when
the dog chased across it and all were
knocked into the water. The others
escaped.
Penny Day for Parks.-The FEEDER,
alton Of Women's Clubs OF McPher.
son has developed novel plan for the
support and maintenance of the two
city parks. The women decided to
| give a penny day for the coming
year, and with a membership of sew
eral hundred the fund will be deyel-
oped.
! Baby Dies of Broken Neck.-The 9
year-oid daughter of Andrew Lieffring.
near Wathena, fell from bridge near
her home and suffered a broken neck.
She died the same night.
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! Dies on Way to Soldiers Home
Hiram l. Rounds, a Civil war vet
eran. Sc years old, died on a Frisco
train between Pleasanton and PaoIa
recently. He was on his way from
Van Buren,, Ark, to the Soldiers
Home at LeavenWorth.
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100000 for College of Emporia.-
The Presbyterian Synod of Kansas
at its meeting in Emporia recently,
voted unanimously to begin at once 3
50-day campaign to raise 500. 600 e,
ward its half million dollar engiou.
ment for the College OK Emparse