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Crime In Kansas City

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
October
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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KAKSAS City, Oct. 1.- Joseph Gestle, a well-to-do local stone contractor, was found on an oufclying stiret slowly bleeding to death. When accidentally sturnbled over by a boy all the wounded man oould saywas: '"They sakl thoy would kill me and thoy havo noariy dono it." (xestlo rccently dischargcd sonie of his workip.on,wtioat tho time sworevengcance. To those or ooe of thom the crime is laid. Just at dusk :n explosión was heard coming from near where ttestlo was later found. lts sourre conld not Be learned, however, and nothingfurther wasthought of it until th body was discovered. An investigation sliowed that Gestle's hand had been torn off, an eye gouged out and his body otherwise frightfully nrutilated by the explosión of a dynamite cartridge. He will likely iie.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News