by Darren McMannis | Oct 25, 1878 | Anger Among Friends, Murder
Serious Affray A cutting affray took place at Seaman’s Livery Stable in this city, last Saturday night. James Wilson, a farm hand, living north of town, cutting Benjamin Ball, an employee in the livery stable, in the pit of the stomach and also on the neck and...
by Darren McMannis | May 24, 1874 | Family Quarrels, Murder, Roadside Remains
According to Cutler’s History of Kansas, the first death in Halstead occurred on May 25, 1874 when John Ashford “dies with his boots on,” killed in a “difficulty over a claim in the vicinity of Halstead,” Kansas. The death date, however, was...
by Darren McMannis | Feb 27, 1873 | Anger Among Friends, Roadside Remains
James Shay, keeper of a dance house at Newton, was shot at that place last Sunday evening. He was killed on a street corner, and was fired at five times, all of the shots taking effect, killing him instantly. It is not known who committed the deed. Shay was a...
by Darren McMannis | Feb 29, 1872 | Meaningless Motives, Murder, Roadside Remains
Cherokee Dan was a buffalo hunter referred to in the newspapers of the day as a “half-breed” was often drunk and “shooting up the town.” One evening he was standing across the street from the Bull’s Head Saloon, between 4th and 5th streets in Newton, and decided to...
by Darren McMannis | Jan 29, 1872 | Anger Among Friends, Roadside Remains
A Kansas Tragedy About five o’clock, on Thursday evening, a row occurred in a Saloon at Sedgwick, Kan., between two men named Taylor and Keener, who have been stopping about that town for a few weeks. The parties were separated and left the house. A short time...
