Show MURDERED FOR HIS MONEY 1 A Horrible Crime Committed la Den ver it i DENVER Colo IaufIA E Nickers one of the most prominent colored men of the city was brutally assassinated as-sassinated at his barber shop some time last night His body lying upon the floor of the shop in a great pool of coagulated blood was discovered at an Cjarly hour this morning The assassin had struck his victim back of the head with a beer bottle knocking him senseless sense-less and producing a fracture of the skull and then took a razor and cut his throat from ear to ear severing the jugular vein and windpipe and leaving a gaping wound six inches long and two inches across exposing the spinal col umnwhich had been partly severed by a blow from the razor Nickers had MOO on his person late last night and as only t0 was found on the body after the murder it is supposed the crime was committed for the purpose of robbery Charles Green employed by Nickers and who rooms in the latters house was arrested on suspicion and over half the money was found under his bed The slain man leavas a wife and three children 1 |