Show YOUM KIT CARSON He Kills His Wifes Mother and Shoots Her Father He Accused Old Billie RIchards of Causing His Wife to Leave Him The Lie Passed The Shooting Followed LAS ANIMAS Colo Dec 1 Specia telegram to THE HERALD Tho quiet valley val-ley of Nine Mile bottom about twenty miles south of Las Animas on Purgatory river was today the scene of one of the most cold blooded murders committed in recontyears in Bent county The tragedy was enacted at the home of old Billie Richards Rich-ards as he is commonly called at the lower and of the bottom and just a few hundred yards inside the Bent county line and tonight the aged William lies mortally wounded and his wife dead At about 130 this afternoon Kit Carson jr j came up to the residence of old Billie Richards as ho was hitching up his team and said You are the cause of my wifes leaving me To which Richards replied You are a liar5 Carson then repled sixshooter and fired at Richards but missed him Richards wife who stood by started to run into the house and Carson fired again the ball entering tho back of her head and coming out over the left eye and killing her instantly Richards had also started to run into the house but see ing his wife fall stopped to assist her when he was shot through the hips and fell beside his wife Carson then started to fel go into the house where his wife was but finding inside an old man whose name has not been learned he turned and ran away south I is thought he has gone to Mug tang where his brother Charlie has Charle a ranch ranchOd Billie Richards is one of the oldest settlers of Bent setters county coming here in the early days His wife was a daughter of Andreas Lugan Their daughter Luple married Kit Carson the murderer a year ago I seems she left her husband then residing in New Mexico and came to reside with her parents Her life lIe was probably spared by the fact of the presence of the old man Tho murderer is the second son of Kit Carson tho noted scout who was well wel known throughout this part of Colorado and for a time lived here at Boggsville His famous lather married a Mexican woman who was the mother of the younger Kit Carson who tonight is flee lug from justice in the cafions fee southeastern Colorado Old Billie Richards Rich-ards is still alive but being about sixty five years of age and crippled with rheu matism can hardly survive Lupie wife af Kit Carson is watching over her father nnd mother both shot at the hands of her I husband |