The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19
ANOTHER KANSAS TRAGEDY
Perry Yawger, a Farmer, Shot Down
and His Wife Brutality Attacked
Near McCracken.


of Perry Yawger and brutal attack
upon his wife, at the Yawger home,
three miles east of McCracken, has
been taken out of the county follow
ing talk of mob violence. The muir
der has stirred feeling in Rush county
as nothing else in recent years 1t
was a particularly cold-blooded crime.
Kelly bought pistol and cartridges
and waited at the Yawger home for
the couple to return from a lodge
meeting. When they drove up in their
motor car and came to stop in front
of the garage. Kelly stepped out and
shot Yawger in the back of the head.
Then he pulled Mrs. Yawger to the
house by the hair.
Mrs. Yawger fought every inch OF
the way. Her clothing was torn, her
hair pulled out by handfuls, earrings
wrenched from her ears and her neck,
body and limbs badly bruised After
getting her into the house, Kelly tied
her hands behind her and locked her
in a closet Then he went outside to
see if Yawger was dead.
Returning to the house he united
Mrs. Yawger and attempted to take
her upstairs. In the struggle her right
leg was broken above the ankle. De-
spite the suffering the injury caused
she fought bravely and finally her
agony apparently stirred a feeling of
pity in the heart Of the slayer. He
picked her up, carried her to bed,
bound her ankle with a towel and then
sat down, coolly lit his pipe and
smoked It.
Mrs. Yawger's pleadings again
touched him and at her request he
went to a telephone and called up
Noble Campbell, a neighbor. He
came Immediately, called the officers
and started with Kelly for La Crosse
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Bride Shot HerseIf.-Mrs Edward
Volk, bride of three months, shot
herself at her home in Franklin re-
Gently. She is in a hospital at Pitts
burg. No cause for an attempt at sui
eide is known She probably will die.
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Pittsburg Lawyer Dies-J. N. Wayde,
for more than twenty-five years a
lawyer in Pittsburg, died suddenly at
his home there recently. Mr. Wayde
ford county, and for the past three
years has been deputy county attorney.
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VIII Sift Out DisIoyaI.-The Cherry
vale Commercial Club maintains a Sc
cret committee known as the knights
Of Liberty" whose duty It is to report
to proper authorities all unpatriotic
acts or assertions that come to its
knowledge.
$4,000 Fire in Atehison. Fire
which caused about $4,000 damage,
swept F. NJ Logeman's meat market
and W. H. Kelsey's china store, next
door, at Atehison recently. The blaze
started in the partition between the
buildings
Pfttsburq Editor Retires.-P. A.
Jones, one of the founders two and
one-half years ago Of the Pittsburg
Sun, morning. and its editor, has sold
his interest in the paper to ". A.
Beas1ey, the other principal owner,
and retired
Coughed Himself TO Death.-M. A
Stickney, a farmer and stockman Of
Barton county. died suddenly the
other day from an attack Of coughing.
A blood vessel burst and death occur
red in fifteen minutes. Mr.. SGckney
had been in good health
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Be Vaeeinated or Quit sehooI-An
children IN Lawrence schools must be
vaccinated for smallpox or quit school,
according TO an order sent out by
R A Kent, superintendent. The or
der follows a general one just sent
out by the state board of health that
all school children must be vaccinated
Immediately.
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Kansas Soldier Dead in France
General Pershing recently reported
the death OF Corp. Miller c. CIouse
from pneumonia His hons was in
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