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Show ITTCr.EDIBLE DIABOLISM. One of the most atrocious murders ever committed by -whito men lias been confesstd to by a painter named AfcKutt, in Kansas City, Missouri. The details arc too harruwing to be republished, and exhibit a cannibalism cannibal-ism that may for ever set at rest any doubts about the peculiar taste ol the Fiji Islanders for roasted humans. This McNuU and another painter, one Winner, entered into a business co-partnership for the perpetration of crime, while they occasionally followed follow-ed their profession of painting for a livelihood. McNuU now makes the confosition of the murder of another painter called Sevirr, last Christmas, in Wichita, Kansas; but ho stoutly rtiaintairjs that his associate, Winnor, was the chief demon in the affair, and he probably- wa., though McNutt, by hia own showing, was no innocent, bleating lamb. The two amiable painters opened a ffore in Kansas City, but they were not long there when they read in tho Kansas papers that persons could be. killed with impunity in Wichita "a place where men wero killed every day in the wck" and "the uMendcra were allowed their liberty." The pair of worthies, in due time, got to this delightful paradise of murderers Wichita, Wi-chita, and there opened a painters' t"rc, but they were for sometime bothered in their selection of a victim. They fcaml taking a citi.en of that place lest hin alseuce might leiwl to investigation and detection; so Winner trawled back to Kansas. City, and tiu re eng:ig d a painter named Sevier to conic and work for tliem in Wichita. Wichi-ta. Svvicr had no money, anil th'-y supplied liim with the nccd-"il nccd-"il to come to tliem. On the ?. m e nigla i.f nnival, tho cannibitN r 'solved to kill him: though they had no li fUctilly with him and leiked upon him as ".i vt iy clever, got jd -hearted fellow." Tln-y first otupitiifl him with I'randy, then oil red brandy and ether down his throat, Dkii ctlier itself. Ttiof then placed his hc;wl in a iot filled nitli bcn.inr.and aet fire to it and watched it with fieudUh delight "till tho bead began to pimmer and cracklo like buruing meat." The further detail.-iro detail.-iro Bi' Wcuiiig. McNiut lias Ken Iril and convicted; but d inner is htill ;t lih.'rty wiiiewliei-c. |