Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-06-24
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From the Boston Journal, juno 1o1
Horrible Tradgedy-A brother
and sister Murdered.

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and Sister Murdered.
| One of the most terrible and revolving
crimes, which has ever occurred ia New Eng.
land was revealed in Ro1bury late Yesterday
afternoon, 1t is one OF those horrible double
tragedies, which sickens The human heart,
and makes the blood boil with voluntary
desire to intiict summary yengenance upon
the inhuman and Gendish perpetrators 1t
will be recolected, as stated 10 the papers of
last week, that on Monday last two children
brother and sister-named John s. oyee and
Isabella Joyce, lett their mothers house to
to walk QUITO Roxbury. Since that time
every effort, until yesterday, to learn of their
whereabouts had been unsuccessful, beyond
the TACT that man IN Roxbury saw two chill.
dren, answering their desert ripti0n, on the day
OF their disappearance, wandering in the di.
rectlon OF Dorchester. r11
The mystery was solved yesterday, however,
By the discovery Of their lifeless bodies bear.
ing unmistakable evidence of terrible out
rage and murder. The discovery was purely
sccidentali Notwithstanding active and thor.
ough search was in progress to discover the
cause OF their singular absence Two Boston
merchants had gone TO Roxbury for The pur.
pose Of recreation, and while strolling
through what is known as Busseys woods,
they were suddenly startled by discovering
the murdered body of the little girl Isabella
They at once notified the city authorities, who
Immediately proceeded to the scene Of the
tragedy The only means by whicl the body
could be identified was by the clothing. The
features which the little oneresembled in life
we're succeeded by those of terrible and
painful death. Upon examination it was dis
covered that she had been outraged in fear
lul manner, and from the manner in which
her clothing was torn, it was apparent that she
had violently resisted the nssaul;s npon her
until completely overpowersd. After COM
pleting their terrible villsiny, the fendS
sought TO cover up the awful crime by another
scarcely less horrible. Murder followed, and
this was accomplished by heating aud stab
bing. As incredible as 1t may seem, not less
than sixteen atabs were inflicted upon her
body, mostly in the abdomen, any one of
which was almost sufficient to cause instant
death, Coroner Ira Allen ana DR.. Arnold
were called, and the Coroner took charge of
the body, The girl was only fourteen years
of age, bat was very fully developed, and had
the appearance Of being scarcely less than
eighteen.
After the body had been identified as that
Of Miss Joyce, and the circumstance made
known that her little brother Johnny was also
missing, a search wa Immediately COM
menced to ascertain what had become Of him
The fearful anticipatious that he, too, had
shared the same fate Of his murdered sister,
we're soon q painful reality After two or
three hours searching, bis dead body was
found only few rods from the spot where his
sister had been outraged and killed. He was
lying upon his face, and his death had been
caused by several stabs inflicted with dirk,
or some similar instrument, in the small of
his back Appearances indicated that the
wounds were inflicted while running and
it is reasonable to suppose that ha was being
pursued or driven away by the wretehes
against whom he was feebly resisting to save
the life of his sister. He was twelve years OF
| age, two years hur junior
Near the scene of the diAbolical crimes
were found several wreaths of flowers and
evergreen, wrought with great care and
taste They were apparently engaged in this
innocent and childish amusement when set
upon by the murderers. When they left home
each had ten cents, but only three cents was
found with them yesterday They had prob
ably spent the rest to pay their tare in the
morse cars. ...-.......a-....-.
The bodies Of both the deceased are now
in charge Of Coroner Allen, who will bold an
inquest at once. There is, of course, the
most intense excitement in the vicinity
where the brutal affair occurred, aud mingled
with the expression of vengeance upon the
perpetrators Of the brutal crime, there is also
much sympathy mapifested for the bereaved
parents, who live in Concord street in this
city That such Gends as perperated the
horrible deed exists in the community seems
almost incredible and it can but be the hearty
desire OF every good citizen that they should
be speedily arrested and punished, There is
as yet not the slightest clue to the authors of
the brutal outrage, but f the adage is true
that murder viii out, it would seem almost
impossible that the wretches who psrpetrated
this double crime should escape. Are ward
Of $500 has been offered by Alderman W. W.
Clspp, of ward Eleven, in behalf Of the cti.
gems of that ward, where the unfortunate
victims resided