Show rich armit hr mit murdered by robbers tracy cal botje cordes a hermit rancher about 70 years old was found monday night lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen of bis his home a mile fron the southern pacific tracks at midway close to the ala meda county line his ills head had been battered into a pulp by two robbers using the butt of a shotgun the house had been searched from ba base s e ment to attic tor for the fortune the old man had burled buried he wanted to lend his money to friends saying that he had bad no faith in banks |