GEARY COUNTY, KANSAS

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Dedicate Geary County Service Flag

Junction City, Kas., Oct. 4 - A gold star service flag containing a star for each of the twenty-eight Junction City and Geary County boys who died in the service is to be dedicated tomorrow at the Tenth Street Community House. Dr. F. W. O'Donnell, formerly surgeon of the 89th Division, with rank of Lieutenant Colonel, will make the address of acceptance. (The Weekly Kansas City Star, October 5, 1919)

ATROCIOUS MURDER
Kansas Woman Cruelly Slain Near Junction City
Her Throat Cut from Ear to Ear After a Desperate Struggle - Shrouded in Mystery

Junction City, Kan. Dec. 17 - Junction City and vicinity was shocked this morning with a second edition of the Collins murder case, only one more horrible, if that is possible. Mrs. George Craig, a young married woman about 30 years old, who has been keeping house six miles northwest of town for a resident of Junction City named John Krebs, who is farming there, was murdered late Friday afternoon at the farm house. Her throat was cut from ear to ear and then her neck cut around, leaving the bone to support the head. Her hands showed that a struggle had taken place, and that the butcher knife had been drawn through her hands, cutting the palms. Her hands and face showed no marks of violence. As yet the tragedy is shrouded in mystery. Krebs is accused of having been living with the woman and the wife of Krebs is said to have been very jealous of her.

Mrs. Krebs walked out to the farm on the afternoon of the murder, staid there with the murdered woman from 2:30 to 4 o'clock, and then walked back to town. Krebs was in the field husking corn and at 5 o'clock came in and found Mrs. Craig dead and gave the alarm to two young men, who were at the stable, when he came in from the field. No arrests have been made as yet, but the case is being thoroughly sifted. The guilt seems to rest between Mr. and Mrs. Krebs and the two young men. George Craig, the husband of the murdered woman, is in Ponca City, O. T., and her mother is Mrs. L. E. Layton of Lenape, Kan. (Kansas Semi-Weekly Capital, December 20, 1898, page 2)

SHOOT SERVICE CAR DRIVER AND ESCAPE IN DARK

Posses Searching for Four Soldiers Who Staged Holdup Last Night

Believed Two of the Assailants Shot in Fight; Car Found at St. Mary's

Junction City, Kans., Jan. 9 - Posses of police officers and civilians from Junction City and Topeka searched all night for four Fort Riley soldiers, who last evening, slugged and shot I. T. Clinkenbeard, local service car driver, who was driving the men from Junction City to Fort Riley.

As Clinkenbeard neared the military post, he was hit on the head by one of the men. He drew a revolver and shot and it is believed he hit one of the men. The men took the gun away from him and shot him in the hand. Clinkenbeard then drew another revolver and shot one of his assilants in the abdomen. The men threw him from the machine and drove eastward.

Clinkenbeard reported to the Fort Riley officers, who with the radio, broadcast the alarm. At St. Marys the occupants of the car exchanged shots with a number of citizens and later it was found abandoned near there. No trace of the men has been found, however. (El Dorado Times, Wednesday, January 9, 1924)