Newspaper Articles for Harper County, Kansas

HARPER COUNTY, KANSAS

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Boy Confesses Horrible Crime.

HARPER, Kan., June 26—John Kornstadt, a sixteen-year-old boy has confessed to having murdered his cousin Nora, the ten-year-old daughter of Tony Kornstadt, a farmer. He first assaulted her and then threw her into an abandoned well, where she was found last Wednesday , She was alive when found, but died an hour later, without recovering consciousness. The youth was taken to Wichita to-night for fear of mob violence. (Indiana State Journal, June 28, 1899, submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer)