Show a r SI STALEY fil KETCHEL 1 PU u n IS ISI I AT HANUS HADS Of N Nj j ft f Middleweight Weight Champion Champion Pugilist of the World Shot Sh t Down in Cold Blood aloud by Ranch Hand Who Mattes Makes His its Escape t r PASSES AWAY AfTER TWELVE ii HOURS Of TERRIBLE Posse and Bloodhounds from Springfield Mo Pilo in Pursuit P of Heavily Armed Slayer Who Has r 11 Fortified Himself in Wooded Hills j II t I j SPRINGFIELD Mo Jo Oct OcL 15 1 J Stanley Ketchel middleweight cham chaut champion pion pugilist of the world tiled died here herc MJ tonight at nl as us a result rJ 4 of o being shot early carl today toda by b t t Walter WalterA 1 A Hurtz a ranch hand The shooting took place on the p M ranch of R n P Dickerson a friend of o near neal Conway forty fort miles fiSt east of ot here herer I Regains Consciousness r An hour before ho died f regained re consciousness but hut his condi condl condition i ton lion soon tools took a decided deities change for forthe forthe forthe the worse I x The pugilist died tHod at the Springfield E hospital to which he lie had been 1 i rushed from Conway on a special train chartered by Dickerson Three I I physicians were on the case caGe An op operation opI I ration was performed at the ranch j in an m unsuccessful attempt to locate the bullet hullet A report IC orl from Conway has Ims it Il that a 22 calibre rifle bullet the be t pattern ot Ol which wh intuited ed K Ket ICet t c chels wound was found on oa the thc liner Hoor j 1 of the thc room in which the thc shooting I I took place It Is thought thou ht that this i ima ma mar bo be the bullet that killed Ketchel Slayer Is I Heavily Armed Out in the heavily wooded hills east I M of hero Hurtz Ht i Ketchel slayer I heavily hea 11 d freeing f ceh before coro a apack I 1 pack inch of bloodhounds and l l posse of rs and citizens Dickerson has hast t c placed a price of on the tho dead bod hath body of Hurt Hurtz The members of the posse are arc armed with repeating r rifles rines i I Hurtz Hurts Is believed to be a desperate man lUnn and will be fired upon on sight I I Will VIlli Battle for His Life Hurtz will battle for his hl life if he I at all with the tho revolver of i his victim After shooting Ketchel who was at the breakfast table Hurtz I I from the tho house into the yard ard He lie then faltered a moment turned and nud went back Into the room where Ketchel J lay prone upon the tho floor E Reaching into pocket Hurtz removed moved r the tho pugilists 38 JS caliber re reo revolver volver and struck him hits over Oel the head I with Hh it Then he be ran from the I j house i II Ketchel cant tell toll me mc how to run my tai business he shouted to C E C Bailey foreman of the ranch Woman In the Case I Hurtz Hartz Is said to have told to hi a Mrs oldie Goldie Smith that he would meet her herI I here tonight Officers questioned her hoping to t get a Trace race of Hurtz but bul without results lu In that direction Investigation of Hut belongings belonging helou has led officers to believe bellee his hie real name n me Is Walter and antl that he heK hel K l j from Webb City Mo To He has hus been I tt tit t the tho ranch since last II Few Fow knew anything about him Letters addressed to Dip Ky k It and photographs of him were hand lound in hi his grip tr The between Hurtz and jest 1 etchel K Is said to have hae started when Ketchel upbraided the ranch hand hanel for forI I beating horse a This Thin angered Hurts Hurtz s The Incident took place yesterday Ketchel tehel had come down dOlI to the ranch aa i adjoins one ono he ho recently purt pur puri t i chased edt ed to spend a few days Hurtz nth thought ht was going beyond refs the tle province of a visitor to take him lt to t task laik for abusing animals Mrs Jr o Smith in a statement tonight assign assigned D ed l another cause caURe for or the shooting pro Says Say Ketchel Her Hert t l While I was working in the house to yesterday yes she said Ketchel Insult insulted fd ed d me wr I became b angry He HL was ivas mf ff o K g J catly wrought up over oer the Incident pleaded with mo ins not nol to say any ally anything all allye thing tiling to Hurtz about aboul our conversa converse conversation re e flop tion He lie said he would glue give me tho t lh J best belH team of or horses on the farm farni if I 1 would wealth keep quiet I 1 made him no noi i When Hurtz came crime home hone I J told tollI him glut 6 that hat Ketchel had said to me He HO was tery cry angry nu I think that la Is what caused him him to kill Ketchel Officers believe Mrs firs Smiths story t lor et although u h they think this was not the only reason for harsh hush feeling between the men 1 f T Promised to Meet Hurt Hurtz After Arter telling her hel store ston the Smith Smithonian G Woman admitted that thal had prom to tweet meet her here tonight She took tool several policemen l and county countr to the Ule appointed a I II tell meeting place to await awall the thc arrival a rival of the slayer Mrs Smith says she met Hurtz about a month ago ngo Receipts in n Mrs Smiths purse show that she recently bought mer merchandise merchandise chandise Iiii In n Coffeyville Kan ICan She says she conducted a rooming house there I It II was custom while stay staying sta staIn lug ing In at al the tho ranch 1 house hou e to sit n a meals I with his taco face toward a door lead lend leadIng leadIng lending Ing into ito tho the house porch This morn mornIng mornIng morning I Ing his place at the thc table was vas changed sonic some say by b Mrs Smith and the pugilist was seated with his I Iback i back to the thc door dOOl Suddenly Hurtz came through the door with a rifle In his hands and mill said to otchel Ketchel I Shot Down In Cold Blood Throw up your hands Ketchel K I not lot realizing the tho serious seriousness seriousness ness ness of o tho situation started to arise I and walk toward Hurt Hartz Before Bufore he lie turned completely around Hurtz fired I I The ball entered body bo y be below below i low the right shoulder coursed up upward upward upward ward and entered the lung Ketchel fell to or The near nem nearest pest est Sl physician was eras at fit Conway C It Jt was 15 r l Lor It lt was waa hours before the special train tra in ar arrived arrived rived from here hr By that time Ketch Ketchel el was in had bad shape Soon after the thc I shooting lost consciousness I but not before ho he had said Bald that Hartz had shot him I Wanted to Meet Johnson For more mOle than that a month Ketchel I had tad been In this part of o the country Weakened by IJ the fast life he hail had led since his Ills defeat by h lack Jack Johnson I I In hi San Francisco Flancisco the thc fighter camo came j j here bore thin and pallid to recuperate r j Long days das In the country countr and nights of or wholesome sleep Jeep seemed to t put new now life into Ino his veins He bade bado fair air to comp come hack and resume his place Illace at al the top of the middleweight I division It was the greatest desire of o his life liCe to take tale on weight enough to bo ho 1 able lule to meet Jack Johnson and re trieve his former defeat and he be her d ho he would be e able to lo do it I The Thc dead pugilists was wm 1 Stanislaus He lie was horn born in ht I Grand Rapids Mich Sept Sopt 11 M 1887 1587 nail ami was ns therefore but little more than I 23 years of or age Ills His parents are I still living in nn where he had bought t property for fOl them thom II Robbed of After Being Shot Friends of the dead lighter fighter say he I was robbed rob ed either olther before or after he was shot When n he went to 10 the Dick Orson ereon n ranch he carried about SOO fi O In cash with him There was no money mone I in his hiB pockets lockets when w first i reached him hl after he lie had hall been shot |