Show I THOMAS FANNING AGED RECLUSE I mULL FOULLY y r MURDERED AT J KANSAS CITY Head of the Victim Horribly Hacked With a Hatchet I Nephew of Dead Man Under Suspicion Kansas City ity Dec 30 Thomas Fanning I ngod SO ro n rs a wealthy property owner I who vho ho lived alone was murdered some flome time yesterday at his hI home ISIS Olive Olivo street In Inthis Inthis Inthis this city elt The head had been horribly hacked backed with a hatchet The crime was reported to the police today by b William Flannagan the murdered mans young nephew Young Fanning who is the dead ir ms only anI heir Is Ie being held for Cor investigation gation allon Robbery Robber was not the motive of or the thep p I crime as 2100 was wac found by the police pollee In Ina ir ira a R chest In the room where the body was wast found t und lying In the old mans pockets wore pre tre a gold Jold watch 1 In lii money and a ad ad d slip showing allowing that ho had depos deposited in a R local bank on Dec Dee 5 Thomas had been living alone occupying the lower loer floor noor of n tt house hou winch which he owned sinco Doc Dee 21 il when his Rife ate ife died Wilt VIII Fanning called at his im un undo cl do home this Oils afternoon tt and found the th fh body He Ue B at once notified tao Um police poUce The young oun man m disclaimed any knowledge of Cf the crime but the police took him into 1 I custody custod Four deep gashes had bad been cut cp In the murdered hans bans head any anyone one of which would have hae produced death The Tj undertaker who was called said that the murder must have been committed at least hours before the body was all found The rhe dead man had llad sold property worth orth during the last year and he was supposed to be worth He lived by bv himself and little was known about him Nephew Released I William Flannagan the nephew was re reo released leased eased after tHer being questioned by b Chief of ot Police Pollee Hayes He Be told a straightforward story and the police pollen have kavi no evidence elden upon which they eel justified In holding him It was learned tonight that the dead deadman deadman deadman man had another heir a nephew who lives In Troy Tro N Y T TThomas Thomas Fanning had hall lived here forty yam ru ii 11 j retired r from work ft II t lOW fow years euS ago ngo he had worked with a pick and shovel shoel as a common la ha borer |