Gunnison Gazette | 1911-10-20 | Page 2 | Entire Family Butchered

ENTIRE FAMILY BUTCHERED. Man and Wife and Three Small Children Chil-dren Brutally Murdered. Ellsworth, Kan Slain as they slept Sunday night, the bodies of Will Showman, a chauffeur, his wife and three small children, were discovered Monday in the Showman home by a neighbor who chanced to call and who entered the house when no one responded to his kuocks. The features of the victims were battered beyond recognition by the blows of an ax, which the slayer had used. The youngest member of the family, a baby, had been beaten until Its head was severed from the body. All three children were under 5 years old. The authorities have failed to find anything pointing to a cause for the crime, or a clew to the guilty person.