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The Weekly Courier, Fort Collins, CO
Wednesday, 14 March, 1906

         An Old Soldier Killed for His Money
         
         Pagosa Springs, Colo., March 9. -
         GEORGE K. WIER, an inmate of the Old Soldiers home at
       Leavenworth, Kansas, who came here a few days ago on a
       furlough to visit friends, has been murdered. When his
       body was found it was discovered that $5,000 in cash
       and drafts had been taken. The old man's nephew, ORAL
       WIER, was arrested and the money found on his person.
       
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         Pagosa Springs, Colo., - March 10. -
         Public feeling against ORAL WIER of Cloud City, Kansas,
       who has confessed to killing his uncle, the Leavenworth,
       Kansas, Soldiers' Home veteran, is subsiding today, al-
       though a strong guard is being kept at the jail to pre-
       vent any attempt at lynching.
       
         Young WIER shot his uncle through the breast with a
       rifle while the old soldier was sitting on a horse. Rob-
       bery was the motive of the murder.
       
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The Poudre Valley, New Windsor, CO.
Saturday, 1 September, 1906

         WEIR Gets Life Sentence.
         
         Durango. - ORAL WEIR, aged twenty-eight, who pleaded
       guilty in the District Court at Pagosa Springs to the
       murder of his aged uncle, JOSEPH G. WEIR, in Blanco
       basin, near Pagosa Springs, last March, has been sen-
       tenced to life imprisonment at Canon City. WEIR came
       to Colorado from Kansas some time prior to the arrival
       of his uncle, whom he induced to come West on some pre-
       text. The elder WEIR brought with him $350 in cash and
       $5,000 worth of deeds, notes, etc. The old man was de-
       coyed to Blanco basin by his nephew, where he was shot
       to death. The murderer was arrested by a posse as he
       was trying to escape from the country.
       
       [Transcriber's Note: The names above are exactly as
        they appear in the newpaper article.]
       
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