Seward daily gateway., 1923-09-01
BRUTAL MURDER |S COMMITTED
 NEAR L|bbYY|LLE
ROBERT EDWARDS IS CONFINED IN SEWARD JAIL AS RESULT
 OF RECENT SHOOTING
Anchorage Times)

(AncnOrage IlmeS)
 One of the most brutal murders ever committed in the Boring sea dis trict occurred about the nineteenth of July when George 5. Edwards, young man 2S years of age, was shot to death by one of his partners as he lay in his sleeping bag in camp S5 miles up the river from Libbyville, on Bristol Bay. This is the report brought to Anchorage yesterday by Dr. John A. Flanders, who arrived from that district on the launch Laida.
 According to the story, Ralpe E. Wolf, twenty years of age, one of the partners, was arrested few days lat CT and in a signed statement told of the crime in detail and stated that early one morning the other partner, Robert s. Edwards, no relation to G. Edwards, grabbed high-powered rifle and deliberately killed the third part her. It later developed that the reason for the murder was because the trio as to which way they should go into the hills. Through the confession of Wolf R. s. Edwards was arrested on board the steamer Starr and is now confined in the Seward jail, while the other boy, Wolf, is on his way to the Valdez jail.
 The story in detail as related by Dr. John A. Flanders, resident doctor at Libbyyille, who performed the autopsy over the body of Edwards follows:
 Tn the hospital at Libbyville male nurse by the name of Robert s. Ed wards was employed. He hailed from Seattle. Living at the ranch of Hung ry" Peterson, close by, was another young man by the same name, but no relation, George s. Edwards who had been employed by the Bristol Bay Packing company and who had come to the country from San Pedro, Calf.
 
 George Edwards quit the Bristol Bay Packing Company about the first of July and started to secure an outfit to go up the river to Iliamna lake on hunting trip and possibly to remain throughout the winter He purchased a dory and spent several weeks going between the B. & B. plant and Libby vile, completing his outfit, and re- peatedly dropped in at the hospital at Libbyville to visit with the nurse, R. S. Edwards On July 4, Edwards quit the hospital, giving as his reason that he wished to accompany George Ed wards on the trip to Lake 1liamna. A third party then joined the pair and on the night of the 18th, they left Libbyville in George Edwards dory for Iliamna. The trio made fairly good progress and on the sixth night of the journey camped at a place about IS miles from the lake.
 Two days later Robert Edwards and Wolf appeared at Libbyville in the dory owned by George Edwards They told the story that George Ed wards had sold them his outfit and had gone on to Lake Iliamna and that they intended to go to Egigik and break through there to Cold Bay dis trict Their story caused considerable comment, as everyone knew that Geo. Edwards had owned the outfit and that Wolf had no money and Robert Edwards had received only $15 as the balance due him when he gave up his position at the hospital.
 Both Robert Edwards and Wolf made various attempts to find employ ment, but were unsuccessful. About this time (July 26) the Starr was due to reach Naknek anchorage, so the cannery launches left for the mail Edwards succeeded in boarding the Starr and working his way to Seward, whence he expected to go to south eastern Alaska and the states, but shortly before the launch left the dock Robert Edwards met an old friend, G. Davies, who he had known some years previously at the University of Washington Davis had been employ ed in the beach gang at Libbyville and was helping with the mail.
 When Edwards saw Davies, he said, Well, Dave, I'll see you in Seattle, and I'll have to tell you a story that will make your hair stand on end Davies inquired as to what he meant, wondering if he was having trouble with his wife, so Edwards asked Day. ies to step aside and proceeded to tell him in confidence that the third man in their party had been bumped off, close to the lake.
 Davies was stunned upon hearing the details of the story and at first labored under the impression that H- wards was either drunk or crazy, but upon hearing the other stories, he learned that the partners had quarrel ed continuously. George Edwards, on one side and the other two boys on