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Show WEALTHY FARMER IS ARRESTED FOR MURDER Trenton, Mo, Jan. 17. James Hum-' Hum-' phreys, a wealthy farmer, was arrested arrest-ed yesterday and Is in the county Jail here as a result of the Inquiry Into tho killing of James Hatcher, a farmer, farm-er, who was shot from ambush near Llndloy, Mo., last Friday night Ten empty shotgun shells were found near Hatcher's body which was literally filled with shot. Neighbors say Humphreys had complained that his corn was being stolen and threat ened to shoot the thief on slrht A 6ack of corn was found near Hatcher's Hatch-er's tody, but his friends ridicule the suggestion that he stole the grain. |