COWLEY COUNTY, KANSAS
NEWSPAPER TIDBITS
Sheriff Shenneman shot by Cobb ~ January 25, 1883
Killed By A Waiter Girl ~ November 14, 1886
Suicide at Winfield (Mrs. Andrew Swindler) ~ September 27, 1887
The Mayor Charged with Embellzement 4 September 1890
Wife Murder and Suicide ~ August 4, 1891
Killed Without Cause (H. H. Siverd & Morgan Wright) ~ October 26, 1893
W. H. Pottle's Kind Deed (Ray Reed Death) ~ 29 July 1897
The Body of a Murdered Found in a Straw Stack ~ October 19, 1897
Grass of Flint Hill Country Knows No Failure ~ 8 March 1898
His Son Probably Murdered in Kansas ~ 25 October 1899
Suicide of a Kansas Farmer (George Walker) ~ 13 December 1898
Woman Saloon Smasher Shot In Face ~ February 15, 1901
Suicide of R. A. Maxey ~ May 1, 1901
Sheriff Certain of Guilt, W. E. Johnson Arrested for Murder of George Montgomery ~ October 19, 1901
Johnson's Alibi ~ November 16, 1901
The Awful Winfield Tragedy ~ August 18, 1903
William Craver Maxey Commits Suicide ~ January 20, 1904
Body of Unknown Found Near Udall ~ April 1, 1904
Elmer Pilcher Accidentally Killed ~ March 24, 1905
C. S. Calhoun was Shot and Killed by Two Outlaws ~ July 13, 1905
Denied Marriage - Girl Kills Self (Catherine Haines) ~ 14 February 1911
Kansas Man Follows Sweetheart To Grave ~ 20 February 1911
Henry Timm Murder ~ 28 August 1914
Mrs. Luella Moncravie Slew Her Indian Husband ~ June 2, 1917
Winfield Man Victim of Vile Teuton Poison Plot? (Charles Mulford) ~ July 1, 1917
In Fit of Jealous Rage, A Farmer Takes 2 Lives (Leo Wilson ~ January 8, 1924
Pair Being Held for Rock Robbery ~ January 8, 1924
Winfield College of Music Head is Dead (Archibald Olmstead) ~ March 6, 1924
Kansas Murder Yet Unsolved (W. W. McConnell) ~ November 19, 1931
One Killed (Mildred Beal), 8 Hurt In A Bus Crash ~ November 8, 1935
Louis J. Hess Murder Trial ~ September 9, 1937
Two Kansas Murderers Hanged in 18 Hours ~ April 16, 1944
Udall Now Claims It Is "Safest City" ~ January 2, 1960
Rock Musician (Jim 'Motorhead' Sherwood) from Ark City Dies ~ January 10, 2012
Copyright © 2012 to Kansas Genealogy Trails' Cowley County host & all Contributors
All rights reserved
