Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-03-29

Out coulu gam no satisfactory lntofmaIlon'
| At length general alarm began to per-
wade the street; and at foW O'Clock in the
afternoon it was deemed advisable to force
the doors of the room the old people were
known to occupy. This was accomplished,
when, upon entering most appalling sighI
met their view. Upon the floor, and ncal
to the door, lay the old man, with his
throat cut from ear to ear, and welterng
in pool of blood; while near the fire.
place lay the body of his, aged wife. cut
aud mangled in u most horrible manner.--
Her brains had been beaten out, and she
had, moreover, received many cuts and
gashes upon her arms and would seem To
prove that she had made a desperate re-
sisLance. The furniture was scattered about
the floor, and the wainscot was despatched
with blood. In brief, most cruel murder
had been perpeIated, but by whum? That
was mystery.
! was at that time residing in the city
of New York, employed on business of
some importance, having Quilted England
for that purpose. l should mention that l
had originally been attached to the "Lons
don Detective Police force,'' and that
had thrown up that employment tor a
more lucrative calling of agent to large
mercantile finn, that transacted business
with this country. and from which had
been dispatched. as already mentioned. on
affairs of Importance. may a. well state
II at IN my former, occupation, L was con-
sldered one of The most expert of the de-
tectives, and had been promoted in conse-
quence thereof. Upon hearing of the muir
der, my old love for my former calling le-
turned TO me, so that l could not resist
It. e temptation of Wishing the scene where
the dark tragedy had been perpetrared =
Indeed, was urged and entreated to do
so by the members Of the police depart
ment belonging TO this city, who, learning
from report -of my former position, and
the credit had gained herein, were de-
sirous that should give my aid for clie
detection of the perpetrator or perpetrators
of this foul crime, promising, at The same
Time 10 obtain the consent Of the mercan-
Tile firm to which l was attached, for 50
laudaLle a purpose, and, also, TO recon-
pense me Tor all the trouble might expe
rience in thoroughly investigating the
affair.
Accompanied by a posse of police
headed by their captain, proceeded with
out delay to the house in whicH the crime
had been committed. Upon arriving at
the s. OF, we found considerable difficulty
in forcing our way through the dense mob
that bad congregated III the road opposite
the house Of blood. gazing up with in
tense curiosity at the first floor windows,
and consulting in mysterious whispers
Upon arriving at the dwelling, we pro-
ceeded along the dark passage, from which
arose exhalations Of sickly odor, and
the narrow and rlckety staircase,
which creaked under our footsteps, pres
emily arrived at the fatal room containing
the murdered bodies. The blinds Were
closed so as to exclude the light from the
dreadful scene of slaughter. A candle,
whose feeble and sickly flame but added
to the gloom of the small apartment, was
burning on the mantle-piece, aud shed a
faint light upon two dark heaps, over
which L stepped, and advancing toward
the window, threw open the blinds.
The slanting rays of the declining sun
into the apartment, and fell upon
The Two dark hesps extended on the floor,
to view, the ghaslly features of
the two murdered human beings had,
during my career as detective, beheld
many victims o: the assassin's knife, but
must confess, that | never, until that mo-
ment, beheld more revolving case of
butchery.
2 "A bad case, this!" says the captain of
police, with sorrowful shake of the head
every bad, indeedl' 1 replied, kheeling
by the side OF the murdered man, and
pushing aside his long, gray locks, thickly
clotled with the blood that had flowed from
a very frightful cash in the throat.
"This has been pretty sharp work.
"by which would infer that
the contest--if any took llace, was of
short duration, as you may perceive, by
the remarkably clean wound, the edges of
which are smooth. This wound, should
imagine, has been inflicted with narrow
and very sharp instrument, probably u
keen-edged and pointed butchers knife;
for you will observe that on this spot, un-
der the right ear. where tile instrument of
destruction first came in contact with the
Did mans throat there is fine incision
in width as it traverses the neck
toward the right ear, and is precisely such
as would have been inflicted by the instru-
ment mentioned That his death was
sudden, may be inferred rom this fact,
that there is no wound on either of his
hands, which circumstance would go to
prove, that he offered no resistance, and
without doubt, his death was almost in
We then examined his pockets, and
found then: turned inside out, and rifled
Of their contents by the hands Of his MUIR
derer. Tho was manifested by the bloody
finger marks by which they were stained,
and which were doubtless made. by the
murderer only. inasmuch as the sands Of
the old man, were entirely free from the
slightest mark of blood. We then exam
ined the body Of the murdered woman.
which, exhibited very ghaslly spectacle.
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