Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-09-06
:, From he ARKANSAS Gazette, Jnly 81.

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WASHINGTON COUNTY MTfpDEp
We gather the following pauicula,s NJ
TINS atrocious homicide, from letter from,
Washington County, published in lie Rates.
vile News ofihe ith instant,
The most horrible murder ever nsroo,r,.
,eu ~ CHRISTIAN country was committed
, "a, saturday night at Cane Hill, on MIR. VIM
W, and four of his children. Mrs
wright states that, soon after retiring 10 bed
she heard the sound of horsemen approach.
ing tue house Her timidity suggested the
apprehension that they might be hostile In.
dams, she awoke her husband and comrnuni-
Gated her fears, and both arose. Mrs. w.
through crack by the door. discovered three
men walk up 10 the door, One asked ifthev
could stay all night2 Mr.. Wright answer.
ed yes and opened the door. The robbers
az mat moment seized aud stabbed him TO
death. Mrs Wright fed out of the back
ooor. A daughter (perhaps The odcst) rush
cd Out by the assassins, while yet butchering
her father.
MIR Wrigh: being despatched, the fiends
commenced slaughiering his defenceles chill.
dien.-They struck ont the brains of little
infant, on the floor, and run their bowie
knives through the tender bodies oithree 9th.
er children, as they reposed in the embraces
oil sweet sleep. The fourth hule bow. of
some ten or twelve years. with long, heavy
blade, the demons at blow separated the
crown from the mass of his head striking
MN into lnsensibility, but not into death, as
lhey supposed. Fortunately two other chill.
oren. sleeping IN an outer apartment, were
not discovered. Also, little Morris escaped
heir observation This lttlec child Of the len
der age Of six or seven years only, had been
placed at the backsde OF trundle bed, thus
hiding him from the eyes OF the murderers
Little Morris was awake, and with the wis.
dom OF maturer years, lay in breathless still
ness, cycling from beneath the bed furniture
the strange deeds ofmurder, robbery and ar.
son.
From this intelligent child, we learned
'nat alter every eye beneath this Inflated roof
they supposed, had been closed in death &,
every tongue siienced forever, the robbers
proceeded TO plunderthe house ofallthe mon
ey, set II on fire, and galloped off.
Little Morris, after satisfying bimself,hat
the murderers were gone moved from his
hiding place, ant, commenced with aslonisb
ing intelligence to rescue all from the ruins
OF the rapidly advancing fame. He ran
ana aWoke his little sisters and hurried them
Out Of the burning dweling--relurned and
found his wounded brother restored to con.
seriousness. His feeble strength being une-
quel 10 his weight, Morris threw his arms
around the shoulders of his almost murder
ed brother, and tendery drew him beyond
the influence ofthe increasing fre.-returned
caught up the infant, but finding it ifeless,
gently laid it down few PAGES from the door.
on the breast ofthe father. He then essaved
70 return for the lifeless I.l;-- =, :, .L:.--
bnt the llre now naving wrapped the door in
flames forbid his enhance. Seeing his an
gel-like purpose thwarted, he, with his lit
tie sisters and brother, sought such a resting
place os houseless farm and clear sky afior-
ded. The daughter that escaped at the out
set, took refuge in rye-feld. Mrs Wright
made-her way some mile and a half or two
miles, barefooted. and in her night dress, to
her friends"