The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-09-17

From tho indianapolis Journal of Friday
The NIurderf1 Monroe County.

The NJ urde Al NJ OmrOc county
A friend at Bloomington sends us the fol 4
loving particulars of horrid tragedy in
Monroe county, an account of which we
copied yesterday from a Lafayette paper
{" At an early hour this morning, Sept.
10th, intelligence was brought to this place
bloomington that a respectable citizen
named John b. Cox residing about seven
miles east OF the town. had been murdered
last night, together with his whole family.
Many of our citizens fastened to the spot,
and beheld a scene that beggars all aescrip-,
ton, and which is almost without a paFal-
lei in the annals of crime. W
"On reaching the house-a small log
cabin containing but one room-they found
Mrs. Cox lying dead upon the bed, with her
throat cut from ear to ear. On the floor
beside her lay the lifeless body of a little
girl, whose throat had been Gu. in a SINH
lar manner. On trundle-bed, weltering
in their gore, lay boy some ten Or twelve
years of age, and two other little girls, one
about four and the other about seven years
OF age. The throats of all these had been
mangled in a dreadful manner, but life was
not yet extinct, though they had evidently
been left for dead. In another part of the
house lay Mr.. Cox, still alive, bat with two
or three dreadful gashes in his throat In
the darkness the fends had missed the jugu-
lar vein, though they had cut on each side
of it. A single child, an infant, was all
that escaped unframed. y~
8" have just returned from visit, this
afternoon, to the scene of the terrible trag-
edy. Though friends had washed the gore
from the faces of the dead, and physicians
had bound up the wounds offthe living,
still it was a spectacle which could not fail
To sick he ctoutast In >the mid
die of the room lay the old man, trembling
IN the scales of life and death. In one cor
ner lay the little orphan boy, endeavoring,
in broken accents, to tell the story of the
bloody deed on low couch were the two
little girls, the younger then sleeping the
elder about to fall into her last sleep. Her
case was SO hopeless that the physicians had
left her wound undressed. The knife had
been drawn directly across the neck, close
under the chin, making a wound some
three inches in length, and entirely sever
ing the windpipe. The parts of flesh bad
separated about half an inch, disclosing
dark, frightful chasm. Before this reaches
you she will be reposing with mother and
sister in the peace of death, There are
some hopes entertained of the recovery of
the others eH 4 p
sit seems that the heI1ish deed was per-
petrated about daybreak this morning. AIR.
Cox affirms that there were four of the viii
lians, two of whom be recognized. These
two have been arrested, and are now in
Jail at this place. The others are still at
large, having, believe, fed the country
=" Mr.. Cox was a sober, peaceable man,
but be was engaged in a law salt with one
Of The men in jail, and it is probable that
out of this difficulty grew the attempted as
c.,. Of no Rfhara hajnn nm
deied to prevent any disclosures
Ca 1t will be seen by our dispatches that
5000, 600 have already been subscribed to
the popular loan.