NEWSPAPER ITEMS INDEX
Wyandotte Gazette ~ October 9, 1869
Two Days Married and Then A Corpse ~ September 3, 1875
Sunday Schools in Wyandotte County ~ October 22, 1875
The Blind Asylum ~ October 22, 1875
A Phantom Train on the Kansas Pacific ~ August 17, 1878
Two Brutal Crimes ~ July 28, 1881
Prisoners In Wyandotte Jail Attempt Escape ~ September 6, 1883
Chastine Hughes is a Printer ~ August 29, 1885
Burned to Death ~ August 25, 1886
A Destructive Fire ~ April 27, 1887
Two Breaks For Liberty ~ February 16, 1888
C. J. Jones Purchased Maj. Bedson's Entire Herd of Buffalo ~ November 24, 1888
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
Nine-Year-Old Bank Robber ~ March 12, 1892
A. W. Harris -- Killed On A Train ~ Sept. 10, 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
A. W. Little, Cashier, Shot and Killed Benjamin Johnson ~ July 22, 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
John Sullivan Sues City of Argentin For Injuries From Falling Stone Wall ~ January 2, 1895
Frank Goosens Sues Santa For For Death of Son, Frank Goosens, January 2, 1895
Caroline Dowell Sues Santa For Death of Husband, George Dowell ~ January 2, 1895
A. T. Perkins, of San Francisco, Is Guest of S. S. Kirby ~ January 2, 1895
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
Young Skaters Hiram and Charley Ferguson Nearly Drowned ~ January 7, 1896
Kansas Postmaster Commits Suicide to Avoid Prosecution ~ March 16, 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
William Forkner Given $8,000 for the Loss of An Arm ~ June 5, 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
Negros Ask Court To Take Action At Bonner Springs Schools ~ September 28, 1904
Rev. Father T. F. Lillis Was Consecrated Bishop ~ January 4, 1905
A "Jim Crow" School in Kansas - February 24, 1905
Planned Suicide Days Ago (Mabel Gates & George Jobe) ~ June 10, 1905
JohnTinnell Sought Death By Laudanum ~ June 15, 1905
Arthur D. Cozad Turned On Gas In His Room~ June 15, 1905
Sisters Hurt In A Runaway (Mary and Margaret Small) ~ September 9, 1905
V. J. Lane Objects to Bodies of Family Being Disturbed ~ February 5, 1906
Old Indian Cemetery in Kansas City To Go ~ June 1, 1906
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
Cement Works At Bonner ~ March 9, 1907
Make Huron Indian Cemetery Part of Huron Park ~ June 13, 1907
Indians Guard Graves ~ July 26, 1907
Two Candy Arrests (Sarah Morasch) ~ February 24, 1908
Story of the Santa Fe Wreck ~ July 31, 1908
Laughs at her Sentence (Sarah Morasch) ~ August 2, 1908
Tried Twice to Burn Bonner Springs School House ~ November 24, 1908
A Youthful Suicide (Wayne Fulton) ~ December 1, 1908
New Hotel at Bonner Springs ~ July 10, 1909
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
Bonner Springs Cement Plant Back To Owners ~ November 2, 1910
Actor Murray Tells Another Story To Detective ~ February 23, 1911
Mary Hood Arnold Tanner Escapes From Sanitarium ~ April 11, 1911
Is Drowning A Murder? (George Bratchi death) ~ June 17, 1911
Articles of Turning Huron Indian Cemetery Into Part of Huron Park ~ October 28, 1911
Boys, Gun, Death ~ December 1, 1911
Died in their House of Sand ~ December 2, 1911
Lucette Dorsett Murder & Trial ~ February 3, 1912
Bruce M. Priddy Suicide ~ December 2, 1912
Struck Woman at Her Door ~ December 2, 1912
A Girl Shot in the Dark ~ December 4, 1912
Died Shielding His Slayer ~ December 6, 1912
Shot A Boy From Ambush (Ecton) ~ December 7, 1912
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
Toothless Wards Eat Gumdrops? ~ January 3, 1916
Cigarettes Break up A Home ~ April 3, 1916
Cemetery Vandals Still Free ~ April 23, 1916
Move Blind School Where Wyandotte Poor Farm Is ~ December 5, 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
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
Consecrate Lives to Care of Dumb Animals ~ June 20, 1921
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
Dead Man (Frank Espy) Cursed by Indian Woman ~ October 24, 1922
Murder of Leon Harrington ~ November 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
Flames Drive Out 146 At Wyandotte Poor Farm ~ December 11, 1930
Shock of Hitting Girl with Car Kills Driver ~ December 1, 1932
Missing Child Found Dead in Kansas Woods (Nadine Love Vogel) ~ May 1, 1933
Burris Fatally Shot in Fight ~ November 24, 1933
Boy Pleads Guilty ~ October 10, 1937
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
Two Sisters Murdered New Years Day (Pokie King & Alice Reed) ~ January 10, 1941
Charge Attendant With Manslaughter When Man Dies After Taking Bath ~ December 18, 1942
Fire Kills 4 Elderly Women ~ January 24, 1944
Two Kansas Murderers Hanged in 18 Hours ~ April 16, 1944
Air Student Drowns ~ April 25, 1944
Jimcro Strikes; Men Walk Off Kansas Job ~ May 11, 1945
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
Three Slain After An $11 Robbery ~ August 30, 1954
Train Derails in Arkansas; Five Killed ~ August 19, 1955
Explosion Kills 3 at Plant ~ April 24, 1959
Mrs. Hughes Bryant Revisiting Taos ~ July 30, 1959
Mr. & Mrs. Theo Sittler Guests ~ July 30, 1959
Johnny Davis Visiting Turners ~ July 30, 1959
Law Professor Enters Lowell Andrews Case ~ March 9, 1961
Lake Kahola Claim First Life Sunday (Merle Dene Harms) ~ June 25, 1962
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