The Placer herald., 1866-08-18
NUMBER 81:
Horrible Murder near Medina.-.A Chilli
three years old Beaten to Death BY it,
Father, a CLERGYMAN.

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lhe Rochester papers contain an account
Of the most thrilling tragedy that has evst
come under our notice-a deed Of which tho
une,nbellisbed statement is sufficient to ,sud
a shudder of horror through any hearer.-
gyman named Lindsey, residing about .
mile south of Medina, whipped bis child, :
boy three years old, so severely that he died
in two hours afterwards-ail, forsootb, be.
cause the poor little martyr could not OF
would not say bis prayers. The statement
made by the Reverend murderer, to Corou.
er's Jury, is this:
On the 18th Of June the child disobevsd
bis stepmother, and commenced correcting
him, using Il shingle for the purpose, and
continued to chastise for more than TWO
hours, when the child began to show signs
of debility, and ceased to punish him. and
laid him Oh a couch, and called my wife,
When she saw the child she said he was dyi
ing, and before l2 o'clock he was dead
The Coroner's jury returned a verdict Wed.
nesday "lhat death resulted from chaslise:
ment by the father'
We know of nothing to surpass the terri.
bic pathos Of this brief account. Can any
mother read it with unmoistened eyes! How
| plainly one can see the little fellow supplied
under the blows of the remorseless fend--
probably so that he did not know what &as
required of him-and still the father, ac,us.
ted by blind fanatica zeal and perhaps, ha.
tired of the child fostered by the step mother;
continues the Observation-Disclosures save
the mark! Lynch law would be mercy for
the Reverend Mr.. Iindsley. No punishment
this side of the internal regions would do
him justice-we doubt the capabilities Of the
tortures there to ftIy reward him. W.
hope that the law will speedily convict and
send in disgrace from an outraged world
this sauctimonious BRUTE Buffalo Courier
23d inst
The New York Rochester Union of tie
22d, speaking upon the same subject, SAYS
the account of the whipping 10 death of .
child three years old, by its father a clergy.
man, because it would not say its prayers.
near Medina, published yesterday, awakened
the greatest Indignation of our citizens q.
ganst the inhuman father. The report was
hardly credited, SO unnatural and monstrous
was the crime committed. We blush 10 say
it, but the most sckening and dread full part
OF the unparalleled horror was not published
A/uuo'oy \tudt Nuo IuOuStoT O6m9l
statement before the Coroner's jury, given
yesterday, was corroborated by other wit.
nesses before the jury. The body of the
child told more plainly and psthetically than
words could Of the terrible punishment IL
had undergone. Several Of it's fingers were
broken, and the blood had oozsd from every
pore. TO conceal the crime, the father tied
the little ones hands behind its back and
placed i; in its coffin.
While physicians were making a post
mortem examination of the body, be sat BY:
cooIly looking at the proceedings. After d
time he spoke, and asked them If they bad
not carried this thing about far enoueha' The
physicians discovered no disease about the
chid-it died solely from cruel and exces.
sive punishment. The little one would have
been three years old next August-w whipped
to death because it would not say its prayers.
We are told that Lindsey iustiliss bis
horrid work. lie thinks it was bis duty TO
punish the child until his will was broken
and he obeyed. Lindsey was arrested yes.
terday and commii ed to Jail in Albion. II
was with the utmost difficulty that the off.
GERS who had him in charge could keep The
citizens of Medina and neighborbood from
lynching the murderer on the spot. Linds'
ley is a man about 1--WE feet eight inches in
hight, we'll proportioned, has black whisksrs
and dark complexion.
The murder is the allabsorbing topic Of
Orleans county.
1.-THE wretch has since found persons who
have stood as bail for the sum Of $40 ,O00.1
The following incident is told by cor.