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Show DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN KANSAS. County Surveyor Slain by Girl Who Loved Him. Burlington, Kan. Clarence M. Wood, county surveyor of Coffey county coun-ty and a former student of Kansas university, was shot and killed Saturday Sat-urday night. Across his body lay that of Miss Josephine Holmes, a maid at his home, who also was killed by a bullet from the same weapon. At the coroner's inquest Miss Alice Fisher, a chum of the dead girl, testified test-ified when the engagement of Wood to an Atchison, Kan., girl was announced, an-nounced, Miss Holmes told her friends: "Clarence WTood will never live to be married to her!" |