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RICHMOND CONSERVATOR
RICHMOND, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1896
vOLUME #-NUMBER 33
HORRIBLE TRIPLE MURDER
MRS JESSIE WINNER AND HER TWO CHILDREN BRUTALLY MURDERED. ONLY RIVALED IN ITS SICKENING DETAILS BY THE MEEKS MURDER IN LINN COUNTY
Coroner’s Jury Ask That the Husband and Father be Held for the Murder.
The crowd with the sheriff after the murder at the Winner cabin
A horrible triple murder, rivaling in all its sickening details that of the Meeks family in Linn county a year or two since, was perpetrated in a small log cabin on the E.T. Watkins farm, eight miles northeast of this city, some time during Monday night.
For four years past Jesse Winner has rented a few acres of land from Mr. Watkins and each year has raised a crop of corn. Winner is a coal miner and when work was to be had in the mines in this city he has accepted it. It has been his custom to work in the mines during the week and go to the farm and spend Sunday with his family. Last Sunday he was out as usual, coming back to town Sunday evening. On Monday he cleaned up his room at Mine No.11, where he had been employed and prepared to go home Tuesday morning to gather his corn. Tuesday morning while he was sitting on the court house fence a messenger arrived in town and brought the startling news that his wife and two children had been murdered.
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