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FOUND DEAD: Herbert W.
Clutter, a wealthy Kansas
mer. He, his wife and
two children were found
bound and shot to death,
WEALTHY FARMER,
3 OF FAMILY SLAIN
H. W, Clutter, Wife and 2
Children Are Found Shot
in Kansas Home
HOLCOMB, Kan. Nov. 15
(UPL A wealthy inet farm:
fr, his wife apd their two young
shildren were, found. thot to
‘death today im thelr home. They
fad "been kilea by shotgun
asta at cose range ater beng
{he basement wiih hia son, Ken
is ate Bonnie
waren, Nancy, 16, were
eis
a Kansas crime
HORROR SPAWNS
Photographed by Not sine: Thomas Wolfe used to tug the i=
rense manuscript of Look Homeward, Angel
RICHARD AVEDON around with him 10 cockail parties in 1929
has any American book excited as much a
‘vance notice and excitement as Troman Ci
pote's fr Cold Blood. Although the book wi
‘ot offically be published until next week in
fone ofthe biggest inital printings (10,000
copies) ever ordered by Random House, thou
TOP Baa ea ear RH ee
sands of people have already red i serialized
in The New Yorker, and millions more ate
About to encounter it as a Book-ofthe-Month
‘Club selection, a paperback and a movie.
{In Cold Blood had is genesis by ebance ix
Novembers ago when Capote saw the news
story above in the New York Times, about
the savage and inexplicable slaying of pros
petous, God-feating family inthe farm townA MASTERPIECEH.
hort Clutter and his family eral Farm Credit Boaed. A leading
‘owned and occupied what was lo member of the Methodist church,
sally regarded at "a pretty good he wus opposed to “card umes
Spread™a $60,000 howe sure gol cocktails. or bullet suppers
rounded by 80) acres of wheat, served at_I0—or indeed, to any
milo, grass seed and 3,000 rented pastime heft didnot accomplish
‘ores, One of the most respected Something” Me was a handsome
‘wheat growers in all Kansas, he man whose “squarejawed, con
hadoffeisedoninany local groups dent face retained shealthy-hued
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