Payette County ID Archives News.....Murder at Falk's Store September 3, 1892
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Payette Independent September 3, 1892
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
September 3, 1892

MURDER AT FALK’S STORE.
An Itinerant Printer Killed by a Negro—Shot In the Abdomen.

Thursday’s Statesman publishes the following account of a tragedy which 
occurred at Falk’s Store, at two o’clock on Tuesday morning:

A two A. M. on Tuesday, at Falk’s Store, in this county, a negro whose name 
could not, last night, be learned, shot and mortally wounded W. W. Leeper, a 
wandering printer. 

The negro will be examined at Falk’s Store to-day, and will in all likelihood 
be committed to the jail in this city.

It is said that the killing was the culmination of previous trouble, and as 
both men were armed at the time, this report is quite probable.

Leeper, the negro and others, had been sleeping in the same house at Falk’s 
Store, and at the time of the tragedy Leeper and one or two companions were in 
the place.

The negro came up to the house, and Leeper, who heard him approaching, told his 
companion that he would not let him enter and that he would frighten him away.

The negro opened the door, and as he did so, Leeper fired a shot into the air.  

The negro immediately raised a gun and fired a charge of buckshot into Leeper’s 
bowels.  The injured man writhed in agony for twelve hours and then he died.

The negro, who was an employe of Mr. Stewart, was arrested and taken to Emmett.

Leeper was well known in Boise, having hung around the town for several 
months.  He was for a time employed in the composing room of the Statesman 
office, but was finally dropped from the rolls of the printers’ union because 
of his failure to pay the requested dues.  He was addicted to the excessive use 
of morphine, and had other vices, but was not at all quarrelsome.  He was about 
twenty-seven years of age and unmarried. 


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