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Murder Most Foul

Unknown Man

Other -DMc - August 11, 2019

Marshal Sawyer – Case # 1873-HV11

Attempted Murder -DMc - May 31, 2019

Virgil Schmidt Murder

Murder Darren McMannis - June 25, 1978

Dennis Armstrong Murder

Murder Darren McMannis - February 7, 1978

James Gray Sentence Postponed

Harvey Darren McMannis - January 17, 1936

Killer Has Visited Here

Murder Darren McMannis - May 23, 1935

Frank Pajer Killed By Officers

Murder Darren McMannis - July 5, 1924

Mr. & Mrs. B. C. Johnson

Gunshot -DMc - December 12, 1912

Unknown Soldier

Gunshot -DMc - May 31, 1909

Alfred Studeville

Murder -DMc - November 20, 1903

J. C. Prentice

Murder -DMc - November 19, 1903

Frank Prouty

Attempted Murder -DMc - August 13, 1900

James Beal

Gunshot -DMc - November 17, 1893

J. T. Hays Murdered

Murder -DMc - July 7, 1893

William Strong Murder Spree

Murder -DMc - June 6, 1889

Unknown Man

Other -DMc - August 2, 1872

Thomas W. Barber

Gunshot -DMc - November 5, 1855

Samuel Collins

Gunshot -DMc - November 1, 1855

Andrew Horatio Reeder

Other -DMc - October 10, 1855

Thomas Newman & A Child

Gunshot -DMc - October 2, 1855

Mr. Parker

Other -DMc - May 20, 1855

Mrs. Million

Gunshot -DMc - April 10, 1855

Malcolm Clark

Gunshot -DMc - March 25, 1855

N. D. Johnson

Other -DMc - February 3, 1855

Henry Davis

Gunshot -DMc - November 29, 1854

Major Ogden

Other -DMc - November 17, 1854

5 Travelers

Other -DMc - September 7, 1854

William B. Panky

Other -DMc - May 9, 1854

Gun Shot Accidents

Planned To Shoot Rabbits

-DMc - August 26, 1911

RUSSELL, KAN - Planned To Shoot Rabbits. But Instead, a Young Russel Boy Was Shot. Harry, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Strecker,...

Miss Forester Shot

September 26, 1889

Shot and Instantly Killed

April 13, 1889

Grant Matthews Killed Instantly

December 20, 1877

Miss Reed Shot

July 20, 1871

Farming

Walter King’s Potatoes

June 23, 1916

Cow Killed By Lightning

June 23, 1916

Death From Hay

February 7, 1884

John King’s Accident

July 20, 1871

The 2-Pronged Pitchfork

July 20, 1871

Horse & Buggy

Miss Hastie Thrown From Wagon

June 2, 1898

Run Over By Buggy

June 2, 1898

William Modest Killed by Horse

November 29, 1895

WORKPLACE ACCIDENTS

Shocking Accident

February 15, 1877

Run Over By A Load Of Brick

October 8, 1871

Horrible Boiler Accident

December 1, 1855

Home Accidents

Tiny Tot Scalded by Oatmeal

June 23, 1928

Drowning

Parker Children Drowned

June 23, 1877

George Pryor Drowned

January 23, 1872

Storms

Hail Storm

May 20, 1915

Cunningham Tornado 1904

April 29, 1904

Schoolhouse Struck By Lightning

April 29, 1904

Tornado Damages McPherson

April 29, 1904

An Earthquake In Western Kansas

November 20, 1903

Miscellaneous Articles

Murder In Kansas 1854-1869 is here!

August 25, 2017

Roller Skate Coming Back

May 20, 1915

Willard Balderson Party

May 20, 1915

Big Ditch Fishing

May 20, 1915

Lusitania Sunk

May 13, 1915

Lew Jones Exhibition

May 6, 1915

James Mansfield Dies

April 15, 1915

Jess Willard Wins Championship

April 8, 1915

Jane Richardson Fatally Burned

November 18, 1910

Mary Norton Burned

August 23, 1906

Frank McGrew Overtaken By Flames

March 11, 1904

China Man’s Body Moved

January 6, 1904

Isaac Rudy Suicide

November 20, 1903

D. C. Sheridan Killed

January 24, 1902

Ohpha Tapp Passed Away At Grandfather’s Home

July 26, 1901

Jack Hastie’s Buggy Upset

June 2, 1898

Severy Tornado 1898

May 26, 1898

Cunningham Tornado 1898

May 26, 1898

Alexander Blair Burned

July 9, 1897

Child Killed By The Wind

April 30, 1897

Horses Wreck A Train

March 14, 1897

William Modest Killed When Horse Falls

November 29, 1895

Dr. Corey Met His Reward

November 29, 1895

A Wichita Sensation

November 29, 1895

Just Like White Folks

November 29, 1895

After Murderer of Albert Applegate

November 29, 1895

Frank Ernest Convicted

July 18, 1895

Cigarette Charley is Captured

July 18, 1895

Horrors Chase One Another

April 5, 1895

Ellinwood Is Out Of Debt

January 31, 1895

Oil Found At Humboldt

January 31, 1895

Largest Irrigated Tract

January 31, 1895

A. C. Hutchinson Travelling

January 31, 1895

Golf Is Only In Emporia

January 31, 1895

Kansas Horses Sold – 1895

January 31, 1895

R. E. Hall Anniversary

January 31, 1895

50 Hog Wagons In Barnes

January 31, 1895

Fredonia Ice Skating

January 31, 1895

Fight Among Outlaws

January 31, 1895

U.S. Sues Kansas Settlers

January 24, 1895

SAR Officers Elected

January 24, 1895

Colin Cable Drug Store Robbed

January 24, 1895

Howard Jolly Captured

January 24, 1895

C. W. Oliver Trial Postponed

January 24, 1895

Fatal Attractions To A Widow

January 24, 1895

Hoddick Killed After Betrayal

January 24, 1895

Great Bend Band Report

January 17, 1895

Kansans In Oklahoma – 1895

January 17, 1895

William Boone’s Trial

January 17, 1895

Thieves & Police Numerous

January 17, 1895

Ed Clark Dead

January 17, 1895

Carved Music Rack

January 17, 1895

Jim McKinney Captured

January 17, 1895

Does It Pay?

January 17, 1895

Deadbeat Bill

January 17, 1895

Eliza Merrick Dies In Fire

October 17, 1894

Luther Chaliss Dead

August 2, 1894

Oran Wordon Killed

July 11, 1894

E.T. Patton Murdered

June 23, 1894

A Kansas Mystery

January 5, 1894

Suicide of Charles Wade

June 18, 1893

A. Benson Dead In Jail

December 22, 1892

Ed Parks Killed

December 22, 1892

Joaquin Miller’s Son

December 9, 1891

Valentine Wentz Electrocuted

December 3, 1891

No Martyrdom About It

July 2, 1891

Kickapoo Danced To Death

January 2, 1891

Suicide of John Regier

January 2, 1891

Robert Synder Sentenced

December 18, 1889

Did The Deacon Take The Coal?

December 18, 1889

Martin Cheney Found Dead

December 18, 1889

Whiskey Sellers Fined

August 9, 1889

Strong City Tornado

June 6, 1889

The Storms in Pratt and Sedgwick Counties

May 16, 1889

Calvin Race Buried Yesterday

May 12, 1888

Not Leaving Kansas

May 10, 1888

A Mean Sheriff

May 10, 1888

Skeleton Found

April 14, 1888

Warner Tilter Acquitted At Larned

December 30, 1886

A Brutal Murder

March 19, 1886

Blizzard News

January 15, 1886

Washing Machine Patent

January 15, 1886

One Thing Certain

January 15, 1886

Children Reading Newspapers

January 15, 1886

Uncle Mose & Aunt Lucy

January 15, 1886

Dead On The Plains

January 15, 1886

Kansas Blizzard 1886

January 15, 1886

Jacob Troup Starved To Death

January 15, 1886

Emma Shepherd Burned By Gasoline

August 13, 1885

Fell From Hay Wagon

February 7, 1884

Post Office Changes – 1883

September 6, 1883

Not Crazy

September 6, 1883

Man vs. Woman in Iowa

September 6, 1883

Founder of Montana, Kansas Dies

September 6, 1883

Tornado at Dodge City

August 15, 1883

Chanter Family Poisoned

June 29, 1882

Drowned While Bathing

July 14, 1881

Captain Berger Killed By Horse

January 17, 1879

Jail Escapade

October 29, 1878

The Indian Outrages

October 1, 1878

A Man Carried Twenty Feet by a Whirlwind and Killed

May 23, 1878

Shooting Affray in Reno County

May 23, 1878

A Shooting Scrape At Emporia

May 23, 1878

WJ Van Eman Carried 20 Feet

May 23, 1878

Fight May Cause Death

January 25, 1878

Horse Thieves

June 6, 1877

Henzy Murdered – 1876

May 27, 1876

Silk Raising

May 27, 1876

The Era of Prosperity

May 27, 1876

An Innocent Man Murdered by a Mob

April 28, 1876

The Saloon As A Political Power

May 27, 1875

500 Camp Kettles

December 25, 1874

Herds Wintered Well

May 22, 1874

Regard for Col. Willemsen

August 10, 1873

Increasing Interest

August 10, 1873

The Irrepressible Sam Wood

August 10, 1873

Severe Storm – 1873

August 10, 1873

Crawford Trial

August 10, 1873

12 Year Old Boy Killed By Lightning

August 1, 1873

Clearwater Tornado

April 17, 1873

Specs Needed

January 3, 1873

The Muncie Murder

December 6, 1872

No Sunday Funerals

October 25, 1872

Giles Smith Sentenced For Herring

October 25, 1872

Kansas Pacific Accident Form

October 25, 1872

Atchison & Nebraska Track

October 25, 1872

The Hannibal & Atchison

October 25, 1872

Max Alwens May Wed

October 25, 1872

Rooks County To Be Organized

October 25, 1872

Large Kansas Tornado

September 13, 1872

Severe Lightning Storm

June 20, 1872

Mr. Beckerly Murdered

May 11, 1872

Post Office Robbed

April 4, 1872

Rossville Bridge Came Falling Down

July 13, 1871

A Lot of Praying

June 30, 1871

Convicts Sent To Penitentiary

September 29, 1870

David Brewer on Supreme Court

September 22, 1870

The Wealth of Kansas

September 22, 1870

Desperate Shooting Affray at Kit Carson

September 1, 1870

Melissa Blye Tarred & Feathered

August 4, 1870

Proclamation From Napoleon – 1870

July 28, 1870

The Murder of Colonel Buel

July 28, 1870

Lead-based Hair Tonic

July 21, 1870

Missouri Says “Kansas Blows”

July 21, 1870

Sylvanus Green Murdered While Plowing Corn

July 21, 1870

Call To Kansas Woman – 1870

July 14, 1870

The New Press Style

July 14, 1870

Iowans Moving To Kansas

July 14, 1870

The Ladies of Kansas – 1870

July 14, 1870

Poncher Family Struck By Lightning

July 14, 1870

Exploding Firecracker

July 7, 1870

Repudiated

July 7, 1870

Murderer Hung By Citizens

July 7, 1870

1870 Self-Abortion

July 7, 1870

Protection Of Settlers

June 9, 1869

Resolution of Relief

January 18, 1868

Hartford 1868

January 18, 1868

Elizabethtown 1868

January 18, 1868

Geneva 1868

January 18, 1868

Burlington 1868

January 18, 1868

LeRoy 1868

January 18, 1868

Neosho County Settlers’ Meeting

January 18, 1868

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

January 16, 1866

John Hendley Executed

January 16, 1866

Topeka Capital Scheme – 1859

July 30, 1859

Indians – 1859

July 16, 1859

Robbery In Wyandotte

July 16, 1859

Emigrants to Kansas 1858

June 22, 1858

Colonel Jenkins Killed

June 22, 1858

The Lane Family – 1857

September 10, 1857

The Oldest Man In Kansas – James O’Toole 1857

September 10, 1857

Droves Coming To Kansas

September 10, 1857

Small Pox Among Indians – 1857

September 10, 1857

Sale of Delaware Lands – 1857

September 10, 1857

Cheyenne Saw Mill – 1857

September 10, 1857

The Union Is In Danger!

September 10, 1857

Excitement In Atchison – 1857

September 3, 1857

What Gammon!

September 3, 1857

Dog Eat Dog

September 3, 1857

What Gammon!

September 3, 1857

Party Prejudice In The News

September 3, 1857

Col. Summer & Indian Conflicts

September 3, 1857

Haller, Murderer of Lyle, Escaped

September 3, 1857

That’s Us!

September 3, 1857

Another Murder in Kansas

July 16, 1857

Arrest of Charles Fugit

June 6, 1857

Murder Came With The White Man

January 10, 1855

William Panky Murdered

October 28, 1854