, 1863-09-02
HORRIBLE AFFAIR AT EVANS
VxLLEs
A Man and Two Children Killed, and
Another Child Hopelcs8ly wounded.

Especial Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.l
EyAssE1IIE, Ind Aug. 30, 1863. :.
Almost outrageous murder was committed
about five miles from this city, in German
township, on Saturday last The particulars,
as fur as can be nscertafned, are as follows:
Atabout 10 o'clock q. m, t1o men, dressed
as soldiers, but supposed to hare been dis
gnised, entered the house Of German named
Herke and demanded money Of four children
who had been left at home, their mother be-
ing in this city at the time with marketing,
and their tather some distance from the
house cutting tobacco pole. The murder
ers beat the children with clubs, leaving
them all, as they supposed, dead. They
then proceeded to the father, whom they
ruck 18th the are he WAS using, nearly seT-
stiIg his heed from his shoulders, killing him
home at II o'clock, where she found her dead
husband and four children weltering In their
blood. The Screams OF the poor frantic wife
and mother aroused the neighbors, who, upon
entering the house, found two Of the children
stu living, one being able to speak few
dressed In soldiers clothes, and that they
demanded money. At last accounts but one
OF the four children WAS expectedfo recover,
two having died and no hopes tor the other
living but for a few hours. Sheriff WolfIn
and deputies were promptly on the ground.
blythe officers and citizens. TWO soldiers
named Grow and Roberts, Of the o4th and
ootn INDIANA regiments, we're arrested In ono
Of the hospitals In this city.
aaey a9ats .31a oi aasslpg .s osen Hat4ia aau
mne q 1ae scene ma: motnlng, pnt tneTa
e Seems 70 ee no clear eglosnceas 10 thelr quit:
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form Of soldiers was adopted as disguise
only. 1t Is believed, and most certainly to
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LATER.
We learn from Deputy Sheriff Early to.
night, that Violin and himself took the two
soldiers out this afternoon to the scene Of the
murder, but could obtain no new evidence as
Of excited people present, and as the officers
started back TO the prison with the prisoners,
the crowd followed, with threats, and showed
disposition to take the prisoners By force
and hang them, but, by the cool determfna-
tlon of the officers, they we're checked, and
the prisonars safely lodged In jail again. Fur
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