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Show m 'is charged WITH MURDER Kansqs City. Jan. 15. Charles K. Bowman, the' Indiana farmer charged with the murder of four persons on tho Bernhart farm near Olathe, Kas., in December, 1910, was spirited away from tho police station in Kansas City, Kas., yesterday and taken to Olathe, where he was nrrnigned today. to-day. His preliminary trial was set for February 13. Two separate charges, both of first degree murder, were filed against him by prosocutlng attorney C. B. Little. One charges him with tho death of Mrs. Emeline Bernhart; tho other with taking the lives of Georgo Bernhart and two farm hands. Bowman was not represented by counsel. He was committed to jail without bond and was brought back I to Kansas City, Kansas, after the arraignment. Bowman will try to prove that he was in Arkansas at the time of tho murders. |