, 1860-05-12
F1RupIsH OUTRAGE.
A LQffle Girl seven years old Violated
and then Murdered.

EUIA LIE A!ese A1A ACACEf QI Aoha4Y3
Word came 70 this city yesterday that tho
dcad body Of little girl onIy years oId had
been found yesterday morning IN stable. in
Aaumec, rope being around her neck, and
marks OF violence on her person, Showing that
she bad been the victim Of horrible onirnce,
previous to her murder
From shstif kingsbury, who, in company
day in hopes Of finding some clue q The author
lara:
The victim Of this terrible .1llaipy Was the
daughter OF Ellen Thome, Of Haumec, beau.
titnl little girl only sevcn years und four months
old. On Saturday evening sho WAS very desi-
es Sas o. bsa She; Gsb hee 70 ssy e
home With her, and the grandmother went to
church without her.
The little girl was last noticed BY her mother
in the kitchen Of The house, but after while
she Was missed. Her mother medo search for
her, but without SUCCESS, and finally becoming
alarmed, the ncigLbors were aroused and search
Was instituted for the lost child, it being gene
rally supposed that she had wandered away
from home. Nothing was found, however. and
The night passed. ana sill no trace or word Of
the lost child. Morning came, ct Inst. and with
it the revelation Of an awful crime. lu au un-
the house, tbe dead body Of the child was
found, cord about her neck, marks Of brutal
violence upon her head, neck aud body, and
lying ii il thrown in upon the floor. The cord
was piece Of common clothes-tine, ard entaa-
eled between it and her neck was Wisp Of hny.
These were all the clues apparent at tho frat
glauce- There was no hay IN the building
where she vas found, and <uh ,equent cxau,iaa-
ton showed that she had been killed BY the
choking she had received, Md not By the rope.
The alarm was Immediately givcn upon max
ing the discovery, aad the gIeatest excitement
Id I4n~& ~1.
seemed to be obs1ined to the murderer.
The last that was seen Of the girl Was about
or 6! O'Clock on Saturday cyening, nhen man
sitting in front Of store around the corner from
her home, saw her comc along the street, skip
ping in her chtld-fikc way. There is an alley
isea where The girls mother lived. This man is
not certain that she turned into this alley, but
it would seem probably that she did-in order
10 reach hone by the back way. Theirs is a
barn on the lot, and tue hay found in the rope
about her neet, corresponds with some that had
The rope was piece Of the clothesliue iu the
yard adjoining Ibis barn and the girls home.
The circumstances end those indications seem
to show that the girl vas passing through this
alley when she was seized and Gagged.-lhe vii
lain's fingers leaviug their prints on her fore
bead, and his thumb cutting the lower part Of
her chin, and showing the way in wAlch this
Wsa DONE, Sic Was tasea into the barn, md in
accomplishing the brutal deed it would seem
that the grasp Of tho villain upon her throat
broke the winopipe, or in some such manner
caused her death. -:
seems to have planned to Lida lis ssils. The
clothes- line rms cut in tho yard, brought ia and
tied and wrapped shout the chiids neck, as she
lay upon the hay-a wisp being entauglcd, Is
We hare seen. in .he rope. This done, tie mur-
derer seems to have taken the body md started
for the river, undoubtedly with the intention of
attaching stone to the. rope and sinking 1t
thcre. Eut the town was aroused, and parties
in pursuit of the lost child were searching crery
street and al!ey, and this Plan secns 10 have
been abandoned II too hazardous, and the child
Vas undoubtedly placed where found in .t!,s
morning, Wli:c the murderer made good Lis
escape from the immediate presence Of his ric-
night Lc must have been taken for one Of those
kind friends aud nefskbors who wcrc searching
for the chld, and lie, with his guilty sc:rct n1,-
susp c:ed, passed on lis why, rnqucAt;oned, and
perhaps uuupticed.
1ATrn-FC1rHEa rAE71crIAcs.-F:om rcr-
sons vino came .down from Aaumce this morn
ing. and also from 7. u. Foley, Of this city, uho
wis in Maun1eo yesterday, ne learn lhat tLo
girls 1atlcF. Thomas Eourns, formerly printer
in CicTeland, had in some way rendered. the
mother suspicious that LIE intended 10 take the
child away from her. 1t is sail that the child
came home the other day aud said th.t man
had giscu her aome candy, and. promised Ler
soG:c more Il she would come after it; butrthe
uso!h.t's suspicious veto aroused, and fearing
tnat tlia man might be some ono employed 10
get the c;..!d away from her, the refused 10 let
the clild 90 after tho promised gift. 1sis also
said that The girl did s:a1t will grandmother
to church, who, missing her jnst after cotcripg
the door, returned immediately home IN search
OF l.cr, End thereuron, her mother hayins strong
gu :picions Of tho child's abduc. i,u, raised the
alarm iumedia.ely- Parties camo to this city
to put our police on the watch, and telrgrapl,c
Dispatches wero seat to other points, that a
look ont might bc kep: for the {snpposcd) s.oleu
child. This may uccount, too, for the tact tAa.
Tie sca1th on Saturday evening IVES rather Of a
general nature.