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Kansas Charley watches the train carrying the bodies of the two boys he’d murdered pull out for Cheyenne, Wyoming. He then, strangely, buys a ticket for that same town.
Kansas Charley watched the train carrying the bodies of Ross Fishbaugh and Waldo Emerson pull out of the Hillsdale, Wyoming station and head for Cheyenne. Although he asked the ticket master about the cost of the fare to Manhattan, Kansas he instead bought a ticket for Cheyenne Wyoming. When he arrived in Cheyenne, on September 27, just a few hours after the train carrying his two victims, the story of the double murder had spread all over town. Wittnesses Come ForthAfter the two bodies were received in Cheyenne and identified, their families back in St. Joseph, Missouri were informed that Emerson was dead and that Fishbaugh was not expected to live. Fishbaugh did die shortly after arriving in Cheyenne. Through communications between the boys' parents and representatives and the officials in Wyoming it was soon learned that at Grand Island they had met a third youngster who had began traveling with them. Soon, all along the railroad stops, persons were reporting having seen the three young men. Clues to the Deadly DeedA further search of the train car the two boys had been murdered in revealed their various possessions, an empty whiskey bottle, and a pistol that had been fired twice. Another strange and, at first, unexplainable item was also discovered. What the authorities in Cheyenne discover, along with the other items, was a soiled bandage the size of which could have covered a wound on a finger. Since neither Emerson nor Fishbaugh showed evidence of a wound on a finger authorities could only speculate as to whether the bandage had belonged to the murderer. Charley Spends His Stolen FortuneIn Cheyenne, while authorities puzzled over the double murder, Kansas Charley set about spending his stolen funds on a good meal. He bought himself a new shirt, complete with a black silk handkerchief. To top his new duds off he got a haircut with a "spitz of tonic." Charley also made a friend in Cheyenne, Henry Howland who was from Grover, Colorado. Kansas Charley to Cheyenne: Charley Follows His Murder Victims , continues with Kansas Charley is Arrested: Boy Murderer Turns Himself In. Previous: Kansas Charley A Deadly Outlaw: No Dime Novel Hero Now.
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