Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-04-21

; auo auVanciuS t0WafuS the WlEd0V
threw openthe blinds. s l9s15l
The slanting rays Of the declinin
sun streamed into the apartment, an
: fell upon the two dark heaps extend
ed on the floor, disclosing to view
1.-The CHASTITY features of the two mul
dered human beings. Z l. had, durin
my career as detective, beheld man,
victims of the assassin's knife, bu
must confess, that / never, unit
that moment, beheld more revolt
ing case Of butchery. i ell
"A bad case, thisl' says the captain
of the police, with sorrowtnl shak,
Of the head. Bf}r 7e5fs slll
very bad, indeed I / replied
kneeling by the side of the murdered
man, and pushing aside bis long
gray locks, thickly clotted with blood
that had flowed from a very frightlu
cash in the throat. c-r.
This has been pretty sharp work,
Il continued, by which would in:el
.tfat the contest-if any took place,
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 a keen
edged and pointed butchers knife;
far you will observe that on this spot,
under the right ear. where the instru.
ment Of destruction first came in
contact with the old mans throat,
there is a fine incision increasing in
width as it traverses the neck towards
the left ear, and is precisely such as
would have been inflicted by the in,
strument mentioned That his death
was sudden, may be inferred from
this fact, that, there is no wound on
either Of his hands, which circum.
stance would 60 to prove, that he Of.
fered no resistance, and without
doubt, bis death was almost mstan-
taneous.' 3Es 81 0&
= We then examined bis pockets,
and found them turned inside out, land
rifled of their contents by the hands
Of the murderer. This was mani
tested by the bloody finger marks
by which they were stained, and which
was doub tless made, by the murderer
only, inasmuch as the hands of the
old man were entirely, free from the
slightest mark Of blood. We then
examined the body Of the murdered
woman, which exhibited a very ghast-
ly spectacle. She had evidently been
engaged in dreadful struggle with
her assassin, for her arms were liter.
ally hacked to pieces by the fatal in
strument. Her skull had also been
crushed by a blow from some blunt
weapon in the hands of powerful
man, and which had doubtless ended
the contest. The wound in her
throat was jagged at the edges, which
proved that she had been the sec:
end victim. as she had probably wit
messed the butchery of her husband,
and was in some measure prepared
to offer such feeble resistance as her
age permitted, and which had pre-.
vented her murderer from inHicting
a similar clean cut by which be had
dispatched the old man. Her Jaws
were widely extended, and upon ex-
amining her teeth, closely, | found
adhering to them; several shreds ol
white calico, which circumstances
struck me as sf1ordiDg evidence thai
she had used them in self-defeuce
upon the person of her assailant.-
AS | never suffered appearances oi
this nature, however slight, to escape
MEL gathered the filiments Of calico
and then, with some soft wax, which
l always carried about with me, took
an exact. impression Of the edges ol
her teeth, for a light already began tc
dawn upon me, by which | fancied
that Ishould be enabled to trace the
mur:erer. I then called the captains
particular attention to the fact, thai
all the wounds on the murdered wo
man, with the exception Of the cash
es on her left arm. were inflicted or
the right side Of her person, and thai
| the roint Of the weapon with wbicf
these wounds had been inflicted, hat
entered the body in,a slanting direc
tion tomards the left side, which fac
warranted the supposition that they
hsdsbeen given by a letthanded per
sea, ! also bsde him observe tha
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