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BUTLER, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY JUNE 25, 1884.
NO. :3()
A DEMOS' S DEATH.
ktf, Wampler Brought Back to j
fieasanion xeuu.
CHASE IN THE MOUNTAINS.
jpedil to Kansas City Journal .
flesanton, Kas., June 22. Ltw-
sWamp-ef8 body arrived in Pleas
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Lvfiffof Linn county, Kas., on the
Uo'clock train on the Memphis road
this morning.
As soon as the train
LrJrtdtne body was removed to a
blacksmith shop on Main street,
I when a party of men got anvils and
gtedtbem off, and this noise and the
news soon brought thousands of peo
ple from every direction, to view the
body of the murderer. His body
irasin a coarse board box. The
Fid was removed and ice was placed
m the box around the body. When
the body first arrived it was some
what swolen, but was easily recog
nized as thatot Lewis Wampler, by
all those who knew him. The fol
lowing is a true and complete histo
ry of b:s capture: On the same day
that sheriff Chandler arrived from
Vinita and Fort Gibson, where he
i had been in search of the murderer,
be
RECEIVED A LETTER
of which the following is a copy:
Winona Springs, Ark., June 13,
To the Sheriff of Linn county, Kas., 1
Slit: The man that committed
tie murder of the Anderson family
m your county is supposed to have
pfrscd through this country going
south. . f, Joseph Clark, met the
man at Swain mountain, in Carroll
county, Ark., 011 the nth, and he
wanted tobacco. I gave him a chew
and I asked him it he wanted work.
He said he did. I told him if lie
would give me a piece of paper I
would send him where he could get
woik. lie said lie had no paper
ami handed nic a testament and told
me to write on the fly leaf. I open
ed the testament and there was some
writing there. I asked him his
name and he said Vampler. I said
"that is not the name here." tie
naid "Wampler is not my name ; my
name is Combs." 1 had seen ".n ac
count of the murder, and the name
wemed familiar to me, and I re
marked the same to him. lie said
the name of Wambler was a com
inonname, and left me. I came
lme and looked through the papers,
and saw that Wampler was the
name, and the description suited the
nan. . I got a man to go with me
and we have spent two days looking
fw him but can get no further track
I him beyond the immediate neigh
torhood. He carries a heavy revol
ver, wears a narrow brim black hat,
is badly sunburneed, and wears the
remnants of a pair of calfskin boots.
He is nearly barefooted and foot
sorev Anything I can do I will do
for you.
' f Signed J Joseph Clark.
P. i. Any intormat:on wanted
direct to Winona Springs, Carroll
ounty, Ark. Winona Springs is
southeast of Eureka Springs eight
miles.
"Signed Joseph Clark,
John Waxxamaker.
THE Pl'RSUIT.
Upon receipt ot this letter and an
other letter from Louis Wanamaker,
tthe same vicinity at the same time,
and was the other man with Clark
ho honted Wampler, Mr. Chandler,
after talking the matter over with his
fegal advisers, concluded to take the
"Uernoon train on the next dav (Sun
June 1.) for Arkansas. He
Ed so. He met Messrs. Clark and
Wanamaker, and they followed the
trace and track of Wampler from
At time until Friday, Tune io,
aW 11 o'clock. Mr. Chandler
found as he proceeded through the
Woontainous countrv the more and
?Ore evidence that he was surely on
the track of the murderer of the Au-
(lerson family. He begged a meal at
one place, stict .i pair of -hoes and
left his boots. His hoots were evi-
dently tight, and over the uistep the :
leather had beep cut in holes. After j
he put the shoes on he was harder to ;
track. Hut on lune 20. between 10 !
and 1 1 o'clock, as Mr Chandler with ;
his two assistants turned a bend m a
mountain road, right in a heavy tim
.
- 1
ber, about eight miles east of Moun- j
tainburg, Ark., on the 'Frisco road, ;
il-ti m. .. . .-1 r..;nr t i
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ward themr They all from the pho- j
tograph, and previously having seen j
him.
RECOGNIZED W AMPLER.
He came up within eight or ten teet
of Chandler and stopped. He had
seen Sheriff Chandler once before at
Trading Post Lynn coudty, Kas.,
and Chandler asked him the distance
to Mulberry. Wampler looked up
at Chandler and recognized him, and
the sheriff now says that the look of
desperation and terror that came over
Wampler s face the instant he rec
ognized the sheriff was terrible. lie
turned instantly and without saying
a word, ran with the fleetness of terror
into the timber, and as he did so drew
a large revolver from his coat pocket.
The sheriff and his assistant-, who
were on horseback, drew their pi.-to's
and started in pursuit. They soon
gained on him, called him to halt,
when he turned and shot at them.
They then fired four shots at Wam
pler, and the sheriff came right up to
him and would have shot, but at that
instant Wampler placed his own pis
tol to his upper lip. be'ow his nose, j
and shot himself the ba'l going up- j
ward and lodging in the brain. lie j
lived about one and one-halt hours j
afterwards but never spoke. No !
shot lired at Wampler hit him or his
clothing. f
The news immediately spread and j
a coroner's jury of twelve men was j
at once summoned y W. F. Thorn-
ton a justice ot the peace, :i moun- I
tain township, Crawford caunry. and j
after hearing the evidence they ren- j
dered a verdict, winch was m sub
stance that the "deceased came to his
death from the shot t a pistol held
in his own baud."
After the verdict, the sheriff pro- ;
cured a box, and his body removed j
to Mountaiiiburg, Ark , and from j
there by rail to here.
IDEXTIFIE1.
Mr. Warner, a farmer and owner
ot a ccal mine about nine miies
northeast of here, upon a telegram
from Chandler, left on the 9 o'clock
train last night, and on the way
down met the train with Chandler
and the body of the murderer.
Wampler worked for Warner, and
Warner knew him familiarly and
well. He then regognized Wamp
ler in the dead body on the train,
and he has since been recognized by
every one who knew him here.
SATISF.VCTIOX.
Every-one seems to be glad that
he murdered himselt. Sheriff Chand
ler is more than pleased that neither
of the two shots he tired t him kill
ed him. He died the death he tie
served is the universal verdict.
The excitement has somewhat
subsided. What will be done with
i
Wampler's body i not yet deter-
mined. It will probably be turned
over to his father who is not here : (jropS in Tennessee are more prom
yet. ! ising than those of Kentucky. The
The Passenger Department of the frint crop in Tennessee is also a
Kansas City, Fort iScott & Gulf, ant'. ; t.nhue with the exception of apples.
KansasCity, Springfield & Me:nphi
! Railroads have just issued an elegant
j hanging map of those lines, showing
j tributary counties and towns. The
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map will fre lounu gi great vaiue 10
anv one da:ig fiusincss on or in the
counties tributaiv to those liiu-s, and
will be mailed tree by addressing J.
E. Lockwood, General Passenger
Agent, Kansas City. Mo.
Paris Jercuryz
is soiid for Bashaw-
Tlie 51 ail did
it with its btlle hatchet.
Hiimn for
1 Ihe Mail.
a SOUTHERN TRIP.
An Interesting Letter From D.
New-om.
CROPS IX THE SOUTH.
Editor Timks: According to
promise, I endeavor to pencil you
. . . ,
the events ana observations of our!
recent trip through a portion of the
Southern States.
We leff St. Louis. fo. ahnnt tUc 5 .
, ,
6th inst. over the O. & M. for Louis-
ville, Ky. On our arrival in Louis
ville, we were immediately trans
fered to the southern part of the city,
and got aboard of a train on the
Jellico route. This road runs through
the eastern part of Ky., w hich is
somewhat broken and in many places
very mountainous.
The present growing crops in that
portion of the State are very back
ward owing to the late season for
planting: although the farmers labor
with a view that if the season con
tinues for the coming two months as
it has been for the past, the yield of
grain will be immense. The truit
crop in Kentucky is a failure this
season with the exception of apples,
which is about a half crop.
We alo traveled through the
southwestern and eastern portions ot
Tennessee over the same R. R. As
soon as we crossed the line of east
ern Kentucky we were informed by
the conductor (Mr. Robert Ford)
that we were in old Tennessee. To
our delight we were from the win
dows ot the cars -permitted to gaze
upon the picturesque mountain-',
which were decorated with beautuul
trees and flowers ot every size and
color that the human mind could
suggest. Alter loirt'ing along
through tunnels and over high trus-
ior some distance, the train came
(() ., bait, the breakman exclaimed
.Sham Dango and we poked our head
out ot the car window, and noticed
an ,,1 n.:in crawling under the car.
He disappeared for a tew moments,
ant
1 th
en car
;e out again, and cast a
wishful eve at us, exclaiming, "bow
does vouns git in dem cars?" We
informed him of the steps to which
jlfc hastened and found h:s way in.
After taking a seat for a short time,
nc lol narked to r. that "he thought
dey had to git in hare from de bot
tom of de cars." Just at this stage
of our conversation the conductor
called out all aboard, and the train
pulled out. The further wc traveled
the mountains, the higher thev be
came. In many places there is just
space enough between them for the
train to pass. At a certain place on
this road in Tennessee called the
"Devil's Churn," which is a very
high and dangerous looking moun
tain apparently of solid rock, the
news boy came through the cars
distributing circulars notifying the
passengers that he had on boj.rd for
sale a book titled "The way to God,
and how to find him," by E. F.
Moody. . Alter reflecting upon the
fast hundred miles that we had gone
over, and the immediate surrounding
country, we concluded that should
an accident occur on the road and
we be left unhurt in that country.
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1 Vaiiu. to us, so we invested ten cents.
' Alter passing through the State of !
Tennessee we next found ouiaeif on j
j the soil of North Carolina, and ;
strange to say. Mr. Editor, bs t j
! . . . .. I .1 . . .
nevertneiesj, nue. ' tiito uui n.t- ,
I c!ctl m ;he State of Nrt!i Carolina
more than at: horn's time before we j
i began to notice the peach and apple j
trees loaded to their utmost capacity. I
I The fruit crop in this state has not
Wen excelled in quantity and quah-
y for the Pt twenty-five years.
I The growing; crops in this state of
; every variety look fine and promises
; a bountiful yield. The greater poi- I
, tion of wheat and rve has been har- j
G. j vested and i of an excellent quah
i ty ; in fret the farmers of North i
! Carolina :.re happier than those ot :
, any other State through which we :
passed.
After leavinir North Carolina v
: trael!eil tlir.'.n.rli V -.t.,-., :...:
n 11:1111.1.
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i ncic c lounu me sm;.U gram ot all
! kinds looking fine, the growing corn j
rop looking well though somewhat i
h-,Cr.V;:lr,l o.v.r.r, ,U 1.,,
for planting. The truit crop m tins
Slate is light.
On our return home to Missouri, i
we passed through the southern part i
I of Illinois. Here you may look out?
-.iv. wr in an v uirecuon and as
tar as the eye can reach ou will
discern nothing apparently but
fields of wheat, and as fine as we
ever saw. Should nothing unfortu
nate occur the wheat yield will be
immense. ). G. X.
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Order of Publication.
STATE OF MISSOURI, )
County of Bates. ss"
In the Probate .ourt tor the county
ot
Dates, Mav term, 1SS4.
Isaac II. E!!i, administrator of W. 11.
Ellis, decea-ed,
Isaac II. Ellis, administrator ot V. II.
Ellis, deceased, presents to the court hi
petition, praying tor an order lor the
sale ot so much ot the real estate ot said
deceased as will pay and satisfy the re
maining debt- due by said estate, and yet
unpaid lor want of suiTicient assets, ac
companied by the accounts, lists and
inventories required by law in such case;
on examination whereof it i.- ordered,
that person- interested in the estate
of said deceased, be notified that apph-
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1 lit tvii .is .iivJicsaiu was uccil .11. toe awu j
unless the contrar. be shown on or be- i
lore the lir-t dav or the next term or this
ourt, to be held on tin? second Mond.iv
ot Anijust ne't, an order will be made i
lor the sale of the whole, or -a nuich ot
the real estate or said deceased as will be ;
suiiicient tor the payment of said debt
and it is further ordered, that this notice
be published in some newspaper in tbi- j
state fcr lour weeks before the next '
term ot this court. j
Sfnte ot Missouri, 1
County of Kate-. j
I. Sam 1". Hawkins, clerk of the Pro- '
bate court, held in and tor said count;.-, j
hereby ccrtity that the foregoing is a !
true copy ot the original order or pub'i- j
cation therein referred to, as the same j
appears 01 record in mv oiiice.
Witness my band and seal ot said i
court. Done at ofllce in Untie-,
(Seal.J this nth day of June, a. p. 16S4. i
SAM F. HAWKINS, j
Judj4e of Probate
C. F. Uoxley, atty for adnvr 9 t j
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Mar 2S-84-iyr
Final Settlement Notice.
Notice it hereby g ven to all creditors j
and others interested in tne estate ot 1
William Webb, deaceased, that I, Hiram 1
Webb, administrator of said estate, in
tend to make final settlement thereof, at
the next term of the Bates countv Probate
court, in Bates county. State of Missouri,
to be held at Butler on the 10th day ot
August, 1SS4.
-94t HIRAM WEBB, Adm'r.
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