McCASLIN, Elton W.

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A Dastardly Murder.

A letter to relatives here from Rollin McCaslin of Kansas City, Mo., gives details of the death of his brother, Elton at Amarilla [sic], Texas, the latter part of September.

Elton had been in charge of an en­trance gate at the Amarilla [sic] fair. With his assistants he was closing the gates in the evening whe he was ap­proached by a man who carried a club who said he had been given the wrong change for his admission money earlier in the day. Elton invited the man to accompany him to the office and if a mistake was discovered it would be made right. For reply the man struck him on the head with the club frac­turing his skull from which he died. The man was later captured and is alleged to have confesed that he had not been short-changed, but hope to get some money by saying he had. The body was taken to Union Grove, Wis., for burial and Mrs. McCaslin has temporarily gone to the home of her parents at South Haven, Mich.

Deceased stood very high in the regard of the people of Amarilla [sic], and he was associated with some of the leading men in that comunity in a business venture. The transportation of his body to Wisconsin and that of the family was paid for by his associates and general was the grief at his tragic death.

Elton was the youngest son of John McCaslin, who died in Oregon [sic], who was a brother of the late Wosson McCaslin, who resided many years west of Franklin. At the death of his brother, Charles [sic John], Wosson McCaslin brought Elton and his brother Charles, now a leading pastor at Minneapolis, and Rollin, of Kansas City, to his home here and educated them. They grew to young manhood here and are well known to many Franklin and Hopewell people.

The Star is indebted to Mrs. M. M. McCaslin for news of the death of Elton.

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Submitted by Lois Johnson