Show KANSAS MURDER MYSTERY Bodies of Woman Farm Owner Her Son and Two Hired Men Me Found Dead in Barn SKULLS OF VICTIMS HAD BEEN CRUSHED Sheriff Searching for Discharged ed FarmHand Who Had Hod Trou Trouble Trouble Trouble ble With Deceased Owner KANSAS CITY Dec 10 The bodies of Mrs Emeline Bernhard soy sev se years jears old her son George forty fort years ears a trapper named anda arid and a hired man named Worth were found on the Bernard Dernard farm at nl Mar tin Un City CH fifteen miles south 1 of hero i late today All had been beaten benlon to i ideath death Mall Carrier Gives G Clew The four foul poisons were last seen alive by bv neighbors last Wednesday Suspicion n was first excited when the rural mall carrier noticed the mall mail j I was not removed from the Bernhard box He notified neighbors and this afternoon a number of them visited tho the farm and find seat cued the premises In the barn tho th bodies of the th three men were found in a manger covered co ered with hay har Their heads wore badly crushed All had evidently been lead dead several days In a n closet closeS on tho the sec see second second ond floor of or the house the body both of Mrs Mra Bernhard was found Her skull was crushed I Ran to HouGe After Attacked Att From the position In which Mrs I Bernhards body bod was lying It Is be believed that she was In tho the barn harn at the time of the assault and after being beaten heat n about the head ran to tho the house o and going upstairs hid in a n closet where she died The sheriff sherif is s working on the theory that tho the murder was committed by b a former hired hand band with whom the the owners are arc known to have pave had trou trouble I ble hIe over oer money mone Mrs Bernhard is said to hae have been wealthy wealth and ac according according cording to her neighbors has often had bad trouble with men m n who worked for her because of quarrels over money Martin City Is near the Kansas line and anI tho Bernhard farm aria Is in Kansas Robbery Robery Was the Motive Later Investigation led to the lie be belief lief that robbery was the tho motive for Cor forthe the tho murders as he tho house had been ransacked and the pockets of the dead turned wrong side out According to neighbors Mrs Irs Bernard Bornard always kept a 11 large amount of money in the house hou e For two or three days people living JIing In the vicinity say a stranger has hns been seen near the Bernard farm farmAn farmAn farmAn An was ns found Cound In the barn tonight It was covered with blood and evidently was vas used by b the murderer Tom Morgan a trapper who was one of the victims was only on seventeen I old Ho lived lIed at Rosedale Kan Ran Kansas Kansas sas and had been on a trapping trip In this city for a month nn |