The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-11-13
KyorrtbIe Tragedy in Ohio---Do"bie Vi ar
der aud Suicide.

From the Pittsburg Gazette
On Friday last. a horrible tragedy
occurred at Port Clinton, Ottowa Co.,
Obio-two young women having been
brutally murdered by young man,
who afterwards hange himself. ne
particulars are as follows:
con Friday morning, Mr.. |. ) ARK
residing at Port Clinton, left home on N,
a visit, with his wife and two small
bows, leaving the house in charge OF
two daughters-Alice, agod Is, and
ANY. aged IL years, together with an
adopted daughter Naomi Knight, aged
10. A young man named Henry NJ
quartz, who had been employed by Mr..
Kirk during the Summer, was also lett
on the premises. Soon after the de<
narture of Mr.. Kirk, Alice, the eldest
daughter, left to have some WORK done
nv a dentist. She returned home be-
tween and 2 o'clock in the afternoon
and found the dinner table standlng,as
if the two girls and the young man had
eaten dinner, but no person was IN the
house. She called aloi.d tor the girls,
Int received no answer, She searched
for them in the barn, but with 'ut sue
cess, and on returning to the house
saw RiQuartz coming from one OF the
chambers. She inquired for the girls,
but he said he knew nothing about
them. An hour passed, but they came
not. Alice went again to the barn,
where Riquartz was, but he replied as
before. They both returned to the
house together, when Riquartz buns
died up his clothes and left
When night came and the girls had
not returned, Alice went to look for
them, and met Rlquartz, who then
told her that he had seen them at their
uncIe's house at the village, and they
would soon be home. Alice went back
to the house and at the suggestion OF
Riauartz she lit the fire to prepare tor
supper, after which, she said she would
90 and accompany the girls home.
Rlquartz Immediately grasped her
bv the throat and strangled her until
she became unconscious. lie then
bound her, hand and foot, and re-
marked that he did not desire to muir
der her, but only wanted to place her
in such condition that she could not
aIarmt he neighborss until he killed
himself, then telling her that the other
girls would never come back, bid
her @ God bye, and then left the house.
He was met at the door by a woman.
who was going to the house on an en-
rand and who asked him where the
three girls were. He replied In the
chamber. On entering, she found Al
ice bound as described, released her,
and the TWO started to alarm the wis
lage.
By this time, it was between five
and six O'clock. The people OF the VII
lage came and began to search. when
RiquarUz was discovered hanging In the
barn, having been dead about half an
hour Father search was rewarded
by the discovery OF the bodies OF the
two girls i'll the granary,lt being EVIL
dent that Riquartz had first ravished
them. and then strangled them with
leather bands around their necks.-
The Younger girl had her hands tied
behind her back. The deed was prob
ably committed just after the girls hac
got their dinner, and it appears tina
after the tragedy had been done, tn
murderer had gone to the house ant
eaten his own dinner, An inques
was held on the bodies, and verde
rendered in accordance with the abov
fact.