The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-01-11
HORRIBLE MASSACRE,
Three Persons KILLED. ana
Tyyo Others mot E1 spect ed
ts t0 Recover i5fssse'4saeEat
-.a as Of Mrs. RSOossl. hHa

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Many OF our re4dsars have dsabtless
ers this been startled BY reports of the
horrible massacre Of the family Of f,Josp
NJ Roosa, residing near, .Deeraeld, War
rem county. It took place OR theynght
Of Mondry, Dec. 26. Mr.. Roosa was at
the time patient in the Dayton Lunatic
Asylun, having been placed there about
feur weeks age On account eftemPorary
fits of insanity. Mrs, Rosa had On
THURSDAY recsveredi sufficient strength
and conpesure to give tho following, con
! neotsd account of the fearful tragedy:
At 8 o'clock the family retired as u.u
al The mother, with Frances, ten years
cid, and Harry, two years ell, occupied
enc bed; Alice, fourteen years old, and
/ Nettie, eight, oceapied another roem,
and hired man, Jesse Cousins, slept in
| the skitcsea. (fhe house is situated 4
mile from Deer6eldaan halr Mic from
the pike leaSias to Lebahen bs 1t was
! perhaps one clock when Mrs. Roosa was,
liawakeaed, and saw a man, in his shirt
sleeves and stocking feet, with s. lan in
one hand and a hatehet in the other, sein-
/ ing into her room. She did notroeognisc
/ h IN, but knew it was oat her rhpsb anq.-
Shs afterward learned that the, aired Ia n
| jesse Cousins, had before this been as
| sasIted and left fer dead L Ae Asnl ~
Aediatel y struck her on the hetd with his
hatcaet, sLdnnIu5g net saliI,o sait q inssaIois
hility, but she sprang cut Of bed aad fell
ca the heer-ns repeating his blows OF,
her head and breast until she lay allnost
seaseless. He tAen ceOny slaughtered
/ the helpless chillreR, Frances and Harry
as he Thought, bat the latter only wa
/ killed. He then turned his bloedJ steps
! to the room where Alice and Nettlc weru
| slesplRg. he dragged Alice out of bed,
a9d told her to get him alla the money in
1 the house. She went to her mother ,
] roen, and there Witnessed the horristc-
| spectacle presented b. th& m ther and her
| sister .aad brother, baFhed in their b.aod.
| Her neither told her Shsre the pocket
! book was which, she gota .aad took athe
4 man, telling him that was Il they hat
! and he could have everything they had al
heuwsuld aeslJ sparesthelniises. lie took.
! the pscket1bssk which contained eRly
! eight or ten dollars, a part of which he
! left Ia 1t as he threw it aside, cursed her.
/ and then slew her as he had the others
! While he Was doing soalittles Nettie came,
| to the aoerd to see " hat was 10 snSs Ga,
whep he told her to 90 back. sr7 he would
! kill her, She hurried away and hid her
sslf in the bed clothes and was not dis
Iturbsd,u The murderer then went back
to Mrs. Roesa, who neaH time " 49, cen
tscieus enough to keep still, and fcigniug
death when ne locked ever her, he left her
/ under the belief that. she had expired
lShe, however, saw him leave the house
by going out at the wiadsw, onlthe sill .,
which we're the blood tracks of hi,
feet. 5eT vsas.t, sia baa7as -stsfzita
After :asfearfsl and herrid suspense Of
half an hsar, Mrs. Roosa heard the
breathing and moaningisf the hired man.
and vsntured to call to him. He answer
ed that he was d yings and couldsnot come
to her relief Fl e lived until near msra-
ing, when he became still in death The
child .Nettie, however, crept from hsl
hiding place, and amid the blosd, the dead
and tho dying, she watched until merniny,
when she ran down to the nearest neigh
bor's; Mr.. Sect S. and teid what had hap
pensd. Mrs. Roesa and France. at once
received all the attention and relief that
could be given. The man. sCeasins, was
found sitting up, dead, in a chair. A eor-
susris inquest vas hela the same day,
which rssaltea in nothin. SO far as the
author of the 6eadi9h murder is cen
cernsas s et# e<srsg.s
Z We learn that man by the name of.
Charles Sesysrs, 2 deserter frsn the 4 lst
.O.eYs |. whe formerly resided near Deer
field, about which place he has bsen lin
fgerlng for solns time past, me up ire m
Cincinnati, a day or two since, to Isa5
Barracks in this city, having enistsd as
a susstitate. He hab.besn detained at tn e
Barracks under strong suspicion Of kav1
ing semmittsd the faRdish slaughter
abeve narrsted-StatesmQa.. ez..-.
! ses- General Sherman is described b '
a captain, asa man who has gaunt leo
-rabsut as it hs get hsAsry whom a. Boy
ald sevsr got ever it. A nervous man,
never quiet, pulling his whisksrs, or bat,
tsaiag his coat, or twisting string, or
rubbing fnger-neysr quiet, but With ii
kiad lock ia his face, that reminds one Of
: psntlsr, if he get angry; hrssss keen. i
rswciful, and 4. genius. sas Fsaf sfA"
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