The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-04-18

,,,-, n,scovrpyA WHOLE FAMILY MURDERKD.--The
allowing terrible story in the Wabash Gazette
Extra
Yesterday evening about dark report reached towh
mat a whole family were discovered buried ehuer tIe
Soor of the cabin which had been occupied u5 u1
aras who are now in Jail charged with the nluFder u
Boyles The awful spread rapidly over o"' anu
h half an hour or less the coroner WIN JURY ana
ome thirty or forty citizens had started Tor the place
a. n,raSatv sat about finding the truth OF the story
indebted TO Mr. James Wilson for what follows les-
erday Tuesday, morning Mr. Wilson ana NJ; ihomas
onstables, provided with Warrant n
anal 70 arrest the wife OF Hubbard late Developments
enaerinr il highly probable that she was an accompice
in the murder OF Boyles They proceeded 70 Mf' var
diners work FIVE miles west Of IOWA. where ahey ouu
the woman and arrested her Mr. Loyeland suggested 70
Mr. Wilson that suspicious entertained that the HUB
bsrls had murdered whole family last fall AS soon
as Mr. Wilson heard this, he in company with Mr. Love
land went 10 the house of Mr. Fisher, where they ascer
aimed that some time in September last this Hubbard
family went to board with iamily by the name OF
french who then lived in the cabin since occupied by
he Hubbards. This French family consisted OF seven
prsonsthe father mother and FIVE children They were
very poor family that had been living in the neighbor-
hood six or years and well known by all the
neighbors During last summer the old man French had
raised small patch OF corn and some garden stuii-the
whole of which, together with the furniture was not
worth over fifty dollars Some time in October Mr. Lewis
near neighbour wen! to the cabin of French TO purchase
s corn He was tho fence in front of the cabin
y the Hubbards and was told that the night before Mr.
erenehs brother had come along with wagon, and
bad taken Mr. Frenchs whole family away with him, and
lad started for Illinois, and that they had purchased all
heir things including the corn, garden, and furniture
day or two afterwards Mr. Searnes Fisher went over
10 inquire If the Trenches needed any assistance and was
in the way by the liubbards, and was told the
sane story. No suspicious were entertained at the time
that foul play had been used and nothing occurred
til after the body OF Boyles had been found and the Hub
uads were arrested 1t then began be thought these
monsters had murdered the whole family. On hearing
tess statements Mr. son determined to 90 and search
the premises. He then down to GARDENERS work
and procured shovel and pick, and tried get
90 with him. No one however believed the story,
and SO no one volunteered to 60 While they talk
ing Mr. Thomas came up, and he and Mr. Wilson pro-
oeeded TO IIubbards and found the door locked They
drew the staple with the pick, and entered the house
They found the floor raised and some dirt removed Mr.
Miles Morgan constable had been there short time pre-
ous searching, and had discovered piece OF skull bone
aud had gone away. They then proceeded to dig away
the dirt and soon discovered the body Of infant very
much decayed. They Immediately left, and up to
town and got the coroner who summoned jury, consist
inc Of Stearnes Fisher j. Lewis d. Brooks, r. Loveand
" w. Stober and DR.. j. w. Jellison who at pro-
ceeded the place. which they reached about O'Clock
last evening In the presence of large company, they
proceeded examine the place where The infant had been
discovered and horrible relate found seven bodies CON
sng Of the entire French family Their skulls were
all broken in and the legs of the old man French and his
wife broken, that they could be doubled up and
forced into the hole which three four feet deep
They laid in heap the father and mother at the
bottom, and the children top. The babe was about
fifteen months Old and the oldest child about fifteen years
old There three girls and two boys, The children
were much decayed, but the parents still sound and
easily recognised by those who had known them
There the least doubt that the Hubbards are
guilty OF this wholesale and damning murder Ii Is al
most too horrible for belief but facts are as above stated
and the conclusion is irresistible The Hubbards are all
in Jail Mrs. Hubbard will be examined to-day There
seems to have been other motive than the obtaining
what few worldly goods this poor imiiy possessed which
were not worth over my doHdrst