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ROCK COUNTY MURDERER
TO BE TRIED SOON
Floyd Wick, Rock county boy mur
derer, will go on trial for his life, ir.
the district court of Rock county, h*.
Bassett, sometime the latter part of
November. If he is convicted by a
jury and the jury imposes the death
penalty he will be the youngest per
son in Nebraska ever to receive such
a sentence. He was eighteen years of
age Thursday, October 14.
Wick, who was residing on the
ranch of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Wick, near Malvern, an inland
postoffice of Rock county, shot to d&ath
Clyde Patterson, a bachelor neighbor,
sometime in August, buried the body
beneath some steps leading to a dug
out on the Patterson place, then drove
the Patterson cattle to the Wick place,
on which he also was “batching” while
his parents were away in western Ne
braska and Wyoming, and was remov
ing the feed from the Patterson ranch
when the crime was fastened upon him
by Sheriff Joe Leonard of Rock county
and by a brother of Wick’s victim. He
later confessed.
The Wick and Patterson ranches
are located in the Malvern flats, thirty
miles southeast of Bassett, the near
est town, and are in the heart of the
great cattle country of north central
and western Nebraska. Habitations
are miles apart in the district. Pat
terson disappeared sometime in Aug
ust, but neighbors thought nothing of
it until a brother from Oklahoma
came to visit him. Then it developed
that he had been gone about six
weeks and that young Wick had driv
en his cattle away. The brother and
Sheriff Leonard questioned young
Wick and he stated that he had pur
away from the old stairway to the
iugout that eventually led' to the dis
covery of the body, buried beneath
earth and old hay. A large wound in
the breast told how Patterson had
died. Wick when closely questioned
finally came through and admitted the
killing, at first contending that he and
Patterson had been out hunting to
gethet and that on their return to
Patterson’s the latter had suddenly
attempted to kill him. and that ho had
shot in self-defense. Later, at Bas
sett. he confessed to the murder and
signed the confession. After his pre
liminary hearing he was brought to
O’Ni II and placed in the custody of
Sheriff Peter Duffy for safe keeping.
He is novif jn the Holt county jail.
Mr. and Mrs. George Wick, the
parents of the boy murderer, are
among the most esteemed and re
spected residents of Long Pine, Ne
braska. Young JVick went to the
county high school at Bassett when
they resided upon the ranch, and
“batched" it whilo going to school.
Last spring hi- was implicated in some
petty stealing and at a hearing before
the county judge of Rock county was
paroled on good behavior, in May, be
cause of his youth.
His appearance is not at ail that of
a vicious or degenerate person. He
affects the costume, tho big felt hat
ai d the handkerchief of the cowman,
but not of tho Deadwood Dick type.
He is soft spoken and quiet and
causes tho sheriff no trouble. Occa
sionally he dines with Sheriff Duffy at
a down town restaurant. But with all
of that neither Sheriff Duffy or Sheriff
Leonard take any chances with him.
They consider him of the most danger
ous type, a lone killer. One who does
not need the stimulus of a gang, and
who is not a bully like some gun men.
Young Wick does not like the con
fining solitude of a jail. He is not
given to moralizing., but in a letter to
a boy friend several week ago
strongly advised the latter not to do
anything to get behind the bars.
“Being in jail is hell.” he wrote, “and
1 sometimes think that if it is prison
for life, or the chair, for me, 1 would
sooner take the chair.”
• His extreme youth, however makes
it extremely unlikely that the latter
fate will he imposed upon him if he
has a jury trial and he evidently has
modified his own views about jail
somewhat, because he is seriously con
sidering taking n plea of murder in the
second degree and a life sentence. If
he doe,-, not change his mind he will
probably be sentenced at Bassett No
vember 20.
Her Specialty.
Argonaut: Mrs. Sutton advertised
for a woman to do general housework,
and in answer a negro girl celled, an
nouncing that she had come for the
position.
“Are you a good cook?” asked Mi -.
Sutton.
"No, indeed, 1 don’t cook. ' was the
reply
“Are you a good laundress?”
“i wouldn’t do washin’ and ironin’:
it’s too hard on the hands.”
“Can you sweep?” asked Mrs. Su -
ton.
“No,” was the positive answer. “I m
not strong enoguh.”
“Well ” said the lady of the house,
uqite exaspertaed. “may I ask what
you can do?’
“I dusts ” came the placid reply.
The Frontier, only $2 per year.
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chased the cattle and later the feed,
that Patterson had gone to Colorado,
from which state he had received a
letter from him. He couldn’t find the
letter then, but produced one some
days later purporting to be from the
missing man. It was in the hand
writing of young Wick, however.
Sheriff Leonard, believing Patterson
to be the victim of a bunch of cattle
rustlers of which young Wick might be
a member, went to the Patterson place
with Patterson s brother and young
Wick to search for evidence and the
boy Wick was the most unconcerned
of the three.
An empty shotgun snell was found
at the corner of the Patterson cabin
about twenty feet from the cabin door
and out of direct view of the same.
Then the search for the body began
and it was the poorly concealed at
tempt of Wick to keep the searchers
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