Newspaper Items for Wyandotte County, Kansas

WYANDOTTE COUNTY, KANSAS

Newspaper Items

Two Days Married and Then A Corpse ~ September 3, 1875

Two Brutal Crimes ~ July 28, 1881

Chastine Hughes is a Printer ~ August 29, 1885

Burned to Death ~ August 25, 1886

Butchery (John Gilley) ~ May 12, 1889

The Last Roll Call ~ May 15, 1889

Detective Gilley's Remains ~ May 16, 1889

A Turbulent Passenger ~ December 28, 1889

Buried His Baby ~ May 6, 1890

Frank Stevens Buried Beneath Tons of Brick at Vance ~ September 15, 1890

Laura Bond Sues her Husband, Martin Bond, for Divorce ~ January , 1891

Reunited After Many Years ~ February 4, 1891

Prominent Young Man (Herbert Widener) Accidentally Shoots Himself ~ October 13, 1891

Nine-Year-Old Bank Robber ~ March 12, 1892

Peculiar Murder and Suicide ~ October 30, 1892

Cashier Kills Lawyer ~ July 20, 1893

Prominent Attorney of Kansas City, Kan., Shot Down ~ July 21, 1893

Damages for a Drowning ~ July 31, 1894

Richard Hogan's Body To Be Returned To Its Grave Today ~ November 26, 1894

How Philip Crow Killed His Wife and Blew Out His Own Brains ~ December 14, 1894

Daring Grave Robbers Caught in Oak Grove Cemetery ~ November 23, 1894

Richard Hogan's Body to be Returned to it's Grave Today ~ November 26, 1894

Grave Robbers Believed to be Still Committing Depredations ~ December 10, 1894

War Over Pauper Dead ~ January 26, 1895

To Stop Grave Robbing ~ February 25, 1895

Miss Alma Buesche of Kansas city, Kas., Drowns Herself ~ July 26, 1895

Two Tragic Deaths in one Day in a A Little Suburban Town ~ September 18, 1895

Captain I. G. McKibben Comes Back to Wyandotte County to Live ~ December 5, 1895

Kansas Postmaster Commits Suicide to Avoid Prosecution ~ March 16, 1896

Dies On His Wife's Grave (George Jatlets) ~ April 30, 1896

Arthur Foster Drowned ~ May 27, 1896

Fireman McDonald Killed ~ August 11, 1896

Seese Deserted His Family ~ October 20, 1896

Crushed by Elevator ~ April 23, 1897

Neck Broken in a Scuffle ~ April 23, 1897

Insane Man Kills Himself ~ January 5, 1898

Suicide of a Physician (Dr. E. Y. Baker) ~ December 21, 1898

Rev. Bodwell Asked to be Buried in Kansas ~ April 2, 1899

A Woman Drowns Herself ~ June 7, 1900

Third Murder Mystery in Kansas City Kansas in 3 Weeks ~ September 6 1900

Soldier and Recluse Murdered and Robbed ~ Febuary 8, 1902

Policeman Murdered (J. William Morris) ~ September 2, 1902

Death Came to Former Kentucky Editor And Sister ~ February 10, 1903

Kansas Sanitarium Burns ~ July 17, 1903

Preacher Kills Wife ~ July 30, 1903

Lightning Kills Two ~ October 7, 1903

A "Jim Crow" School in Kansas - February 24, 1905

Sisters Hurt In A Runaway (Mary and Margaret Small) ~ September 9, 1905

A Kansas Veteran A Suicide (Charles Jyer) ~ December 3, 1905

Number of Dead Unknown in Kansas City Fire ~ October 25, 1906

Three Bodies Today ~ October 29, 1906

Drunken Man Kills Hotel Landlord ~ November 26, 1906

Indians Guard Graves ~ July 26, 1907

Two Candy Arrests (Sarah Morasch) ~ February 24, 1908

Laughs at her Sentence (Sarah Morasch) ~ August 2, 1908

A Youthful Suicide (Wayne Fulton) ~ December 1, 1908

Shot Former Sweetheart (Mrs. Clyde Setzer) & Then Killed Self (Ray Reese) ~ December 31, 1908

Y.M.C.A. Worder Drowns when Canoe Capsizes ~ July 23, 1909

Awful Suffering of Innocent Babe ~ December 6, 1909

Indian Woman Argues Case in Supreme Court ~ January 16, 1910

A Baby's Grave Saved ~ June 24, 1910

Heat Drives to Suicide ~ July 30, 1910

Actor Murray Tells Another Story To Detective ~ February 23, 1911

Is Drowning A Murder? (George Bratchi death) ~ June 17, 1911

Boys, Gun, Death ~ December 1, 1911

Died in their House of Sand ~ December 2, 1911

Baby Dies at Graveside ~ August 31, 1913

Kills Self and Woman in Kansas City Park ~ November 4, 1913

Drowns in River he Memorialized ~ March 26, 1914

Parking an Old Cemetery ~ April 12, 1914

Shot Wife - Kills Self ~ July 1, 1914

A River Tragedy, Almost ~ July 17, 1914

Two-year Old A Lifesaver ~ July 20, 1914

Shot Financee by Accident ~ March 28, 1915

Trolley Collision was Fatal ~ June 14, 1915

No Blame for Motor Death~ December 4, 1915

A Baby Burned to Death ~ December 4, 1915

Cigarettes Break up A Home ~ April 3, 1916

Cemetery Vandals Still Free ~ April 23, 1916

Kansas Side Man A Suicide (Joseph Splechter) ~ September 24, 1916

Woman Spurns Love, Calls Police, He Kills ~ July 12, 1917

Pair Leap From Boat in Kansas City Amusement Park Lake ~ July 16, 1917

Coroner "Investigates" Tom Lewellyn's Killing ~ July 19, 1917

Look Into Deaths at Armour's ~ August 13, 1917

A Suicide Loved Two Lands (John Gottman) ~ February 18, 1918

Tragedy Ends Marital Troubles of Kansas Side Man ~ May 25, 1918

Galvin Smith Drowned in "Swimmin' Hole" ~ May 31, 1918

Prominent Scout Master Drowns in the Kaw ~ August 9, 1918

Warrant for A Policeman ~ September 14, 1918

Three Injured in Accident on kansas Side - Car Escaped ~ October 16, 1918

Motor Car Struck A Woman (Mrs. Henry A. Boyd) ~ October 21, 1918

An Accident Victim Dies (Edward J. McGregor) ~ October 24, 1918

Fainted While in Bathing ~ July 10, 1919

Youth Drowns at Park ~ August 4, 1919

"Hypnotized, I Shot Him" ~ September 9, 1919

Consecrate Lives to Care of Dumb Animals ~ June 20, 1921

Indian Pays for Damage Done Jail ~ July 6, 1922

Drowns as Children Watch ~ August 20, 1922

Killed on Burgler Call (Elmer Biggs) ~ September 1, 1922

Two Policemen Die in Fight with Thugs ~ September 1, 1922

Bandit Admits Part in Slaying Two Policemen (Biggs, Wheeler, Damron) ~ September 8, 1922

Mother and Babe Believed Drowned ~ October 9, 1923

Daring Escaped Convict Eludes Arkansas Posse (Ben Casey, Charles O'Keith, David Burns) ~ December 17, 1923

Former Waco Man's Daughter Dies in Blast ~ December 30, 1924

Big City Has Heart (Harry V. Hurtt daughters) ~ November 11, 1929

Shock of Hitting Girl with Car Kills Driver ~ December 1, 1932

Burris Fatally Shot in Fight ~ November 24, 1933

Girl Kills Self ~ April 29, 1938

Boy Refuses Aid From Juror ~ April 21, 1939

'Tired of Mush', Boy Kills Self as Feast Nears ~ March 1, 1940

Fire Kills 4 Elderly Women ~ January 24, 1944

Two Kansas Murderers Hanged in 18 Hours ~ April 16, 1944

Air Student Drowns ~ April 25, 1944

Ax Killer Sentenced but Must Complete 50 Year Texas Term~ March 14, 1947

Hospital Patients - Staff terrorized by Enraged Maniac ~ December 26, 1947

Praise in Pistol Fight ~ August 25, 1950

Teen-Age Boy (Charles Alfred Thomas) Held For Man's Murder (Mearl Goff) ~ July 20, 1952

Train Derails in Arkansas; Five Killed ~ August 19, 1955

Explosion Kills 3 at Plant ~ April 24, 1959

Law Professor Enters Lowell Andrews Case ~ March 9, 1961

Court Sets Nov. 30 for Execution of Lowell Andrews ~ November 2, 1962

'Model Boy is Hanged in Kansas ~ November 30,1962

Air Crash Kills 5 Businessmen ~ March 6, 1965

Hot water Kills Boy, Scalds Twin Sister ~ October 13, 1966

Crash Kills Three ~ May 19, 1975

The Late Peter Fopeano Known As A Natural-Born Actor ~ December 7, 2008