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ao 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 town A MASTERPIECE H. 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 andonPresdentEisenhower'sFed- youthfulness, and his teeth, Un 'The last people Koeryon Cuterwasosouceofe now e kindof eas toward bei renter rasc bt At IS be smo ch onsen tots». een a bok.” Noerey ciuter was 16. 4 friend of — Bbberbert and Borne Carter beamed ers sl she “etnays mode people, at the lca photographer forth ron abo thomas Sh tre tena the 1857 wean of reign sdeme cles presen the eds ofthe three dager ts vm and the They were shemsces tm ‘sie rer! bout and developed he wos stomped

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