by Darren McMannis | Jan 2, 1918 | Family Quarrels, Murder, Roadside Remains
Shooting Likely To Prove Fatal One Colored Woman Now In Hospital; Another Is In Jail. Jealousy The Cause. Myrtle Gray Fired Several Shots On Public Street This Morning. As a result of a shooting scrape, bred in what is reported to be a case of jealousy and...
by Darren McMannis | Jun 29, 1909 | Family Quarrels, Murder, Roadside Remains
Murder At Burrton C.B. Guist Killed and Body Thrown Into a Slough. The citizens of Burrton and vicinity have been thrown into a state of frantic excitement over a murder committed there Monday night or Tuesday morning, and it is probable that inside of the next...
by Darren McMannis | Jul 13, 1901 | Family Quarrels, Murder, Roadside Remains
Shocking Tragedy. Oma Beers, Returning Home Saturday Night, Slain By Herbert Shacklett The Dead Bodies of the Young Lady and Her Slayer Were Discovered About Three Miles West of the City Four Shots Were Required to End the Life of the Beautiful Girl Slayer Shot...
by Darren McMannis | Feb 14, 1895 | Family Quarrels, Murder
Brutally Murdered Tom Williams Killed by Pat Rickman. Williams too Attentive to Rickman’s Wife. An exciting scene occurred on Main street in this city this morning at 10 o’clock. The report of two pistol shots aroused the attention of those in the vicinity of Main...
by Darren McMannis | May 24, 1874 | Family Quarrels, Murder, Roadside Remains
According to Cutler’s History of Kansas, the first death in Halstead occurred on May 25, 1874 when John Ashford “dies with his boots on,” killed in a “difficulty over a claim in the vicinity of Halstead,” Kansas. The death date, however, was...
