Seek Key To Mystery In Newton Boy’s Death
Another chapter
to a mystery that has baffled the citizens and officers of Harvey County since
last Thanksgiving Day, was opened today when a $600 reward was offered for the
arrest and conviction of the person who murdered Jacob Sadowski, Jr., in a
lonely pasture, where he was hunting, Thanksgiving morning.
Charles Dodds,
another young man of the neighborhood, and whose parents lived at Chamois, Mo.,
was also out hunting the same morning and following the scent of a skunk,
suddenly came upon the body of young Sadowski lying face downward in the grass,
with a bullet hole in his breast. The
body was still warm and Dodds ran to the nearest neighbor and gave the alarm.
Since it was
definitely determined that some one is responsible for the shooting, Governor
Capper has offered $150 reward for the arrest and conviction of the guilty
party. This amount has been further
augmented by $200 given by the boy’s father, Jacob Sadowski, and by $250 given
by the two sub-orders of the A.H.T.A. of McLain and Newton, which brings the
total amount up to $600. The Wichita Beacon, Wichita, Kansas. Monday, May 8, 1916. Page 2.
