The Breeze – February 16, 1911 – Page 8

R. T. Wester, a brother of City Marshal Wester, was shot and instantly killed by two men named Mathis near his home in Jackson county last week under circumstances particularly atrocious.

From the evidence given at the inquest it seems that Wester was passing the home of the younger Mathis, who was his son-in-law, on his way home from Grand ridge, when the murderers hailed him from the home of the elder Mathis, and he turned and went back to see what they wanted, and had entered the yard when the younger Mathis shot him from the inside of the house, and the elder came round from behind the house and fired the second shot at him, and then beat him over the head with the gun.

Both of the Mathises were arrested and remanded to jail without bail.

[Contributed by Michael Strickland]

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