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The Columbus Journal, March 4, 1915
CZARNIK--This, Thursday morning at nine o'clock, Sylvester Orin Higbee shot and killed Thomas Czarnik, on the Little farm four and one-half miles northwest of Monroe. The men who were both employed by Gertrude M. Zimmerer who rents the farm, got into an altercation, and Higbee siezed his shot gun and shot his victim, the charge entering his head. Immediately after the shooting the officers were notified, and County Attorney Walter, Coroner Gass and Deputy Sheriff Bruke went to the scene of the trouble.
The dead man was left lying where he fell until the officers arrived. After viewing the remains and the surroundings the slayer and the woman were placed under arrest and brought to this city and placed in jail. The remains were also brought to Columbus and the inquest will be held tomorrow (Friday.)
Higbee admits that he fired the fatal shot and his reason for doing so seems to be that the dead man was a "bigger man" than he.
Higbee is a man about 30 to 35 years of age, of slender build and a cripple, having lost his right limb. Czarnick was about 25 years of age and is well known in this county, having lived here a number of years. The woman is also quite well known. Higbee has been in her employ as a farm hand for some time.
It seems that the parties to the trouble were drinking the night before and probably the shooting was the wind up of a brawl in which they had participated.
Those who know Higbee say that he is of a quarrelsome disposition and the officers were notified before reaching the house that it would be dangerous to get within range of his gun. Deputy Sheriff Burke, however paid little attention to the threats and went and got his man without resistance.
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/platte/vitals/vitals1915.html
The Columbus Journal, March 4, 1915
CZARNIK--This, Thursday morning at nine o'clock, Sylvester Orin Higbee shot and killed Thomas Czarnik, on the Little farm four and one-half miles northwest of Monroe. The men who were both employed by Gertrude M. Zimmerer who rents the farm, got into an altercation, and Higbee siezed his shot gun and shot his victim, the charge entering his head. Immediately after the shooting the officers were notified, and County Attorney Walter, Coroner Gass and Deputy Sheriff Bruke went to the scene of the trouble.
The dead man was left lying where he fell until the officers arrived. After viewing the remains and the surroundings the slayer and the woman were placed under arrest and brought to this city and placed in jail. The remains were also brought to Columbus and the inquest will be held tomorrow (Friday.)
Higbee admits that he fired the fatal shot and his reason for doing so seems to be that the dead man was a "bigger man" than he.
Higbee is a man about 30 to 35 years of age, of slender build and a cripple, having lost his right limb. Czarnick was about 25 years of age and is well known in this county, having lived here a number of years. The woman is also quite well known. Higbee has been in her employ as a farm hand for some time.
It seems that the parties to the trouble were drinking the night before and probably the shooting was the wind up of a brawl in which they had participated.
Those who know Higbee say that he is of a quarrelsome disposition and the officers were notified before reaching the house that it would be dangerous to get within range of his gun. Deputy Sheriff Burke, however paid little attention to the threats and went and got his man without resistance.
From the web site:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/platte/vitals/vitals1915.html
The Columbus Journal, March 4, 1915
CZARNIK--This, Thursday morning at nine o'clock, Sylvester Orin Higbee shot and killed Thomas Czarnik, on the Little farm four and one-half miles northwest of Monroe. The men who were both employed by Gertrude M. Zimmerer who rents the farm, got into an altercation, and Higbee siezed his shot gun and shot his victim, the charge entering his head. Immediately after the shooting the officers were notified, and County Attorney Walter, Coroner Gass and Deputy Sheriff Bruke went to the scene of the trouble.
The dead man was left lying where he fell until the officers arrived. After viewing the remains and the surroundings the slayer and the woman were placed under arrest and brought to this city and placed in jail. The remains were also brought to Columbus and the inquest will be held tomorrow (Friday.)
Higbee admits that he fired the fatal shot and his reason for doing so seems to be that the dead man was a "bigger man" than he.
Higbee is a man about 30 to 35 years of age, of slender build and a cripple, having lost his right limb. Czarnick was about 25 years of age and is well known in this county, having lived here a number of years. The woman is also quite well known. Higbee has been in her employ as a farm hand for some time.
It seems that the parties to the trouble were drinking the night before and probably the shooting was the wind up of a brawl in which they had participated.
Those who know Higbee say that he is of a quarrelsome disposition and the officers were notified before reaching the house that it would be dangerous to get within range of his gun. Deputy Sheriff Burke, however paid little attention to the threats and went and got his man without resistance.
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/platte/vitals/vitals1915.html
The Columbus Journal, March 4, 1915
CZARNIK--This, Thursday morning at nine o'clock, Sylvester Orin Higbee shot and killed Thomas Czarnik, on the Little farm four and one-half miles northwest of Monroe. The men who were both employed by Gertrude M. Zimmerer who rents the farm, got into an altercation, and Higbee siezed his shot gun and shot his victim, the charge entering his head. Immediately after the shooting the officers were notified, and County Attorney Walter, Coroner Gass and Deputy Sheriff Bruke went to the scene of the trouble.
The dead man was left lying where he fell until the officers arrived. After viewing the remains and the surroundings the slayer and the woman were placed under arrest and brought to this city and placed in jail. The remains were also brought to Columbus and the inquest will be held tomorrow (Friday.)
Higbee admits that he fired the fatal shot and his reason for doing so seems to be that the dead man was a "bigger man" than he.
Higbee is a man about 30 to 35 years of age, of slender build and a cripple, having lost his right limb. Czarnick was about 25 years of age and is well known in this county, having lived here a number of years. The woman is also quite well known. Higbee has been in her employ as a farm hand for some time.
It seems that the parties to the trouble were drinking the night before and probably the shooting was the wind up of a brawl in which they had participated.
Those who know Higbee say that he is of a quarrelsome disposition and the officers were notified before reaching the house that it would be dangerous to get within range of his gun. Deputy Sheriff Burke, however paid little attention to the threats and went and got his man without resistance.
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