Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-04-18
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
|. IN MURDER Ils OF 5THn INNoonNrs.
ST. CLAIRSVfLLE, OHIO:
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 1s, 1867


sMURDER OF THE INNOCENTs.
From the New York Tribune, 9TH inst1 MOI
1t Is getting to be q serious question
among Christian men and women wheth-
er We ought not to have society for The
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, We
hatc not recovered from THE sickening
horrors of the case of the Rev. Mr.. Lind
say, y,.who whipped rhisl little son ito death
because lie Would not say his prayers,
when we were called upon the other day
to record n frightful instance OF a child
torture near Hackensack,- N, j.. which
fortunately came TO the Knowledge of
the authorities before it had culminated
in down right murder. A man and his
wife, named Vanderbilt, had taken an
orphan child, one Mary Ann Farrell,
from an asylum, for the purpose of en-
plOyfng her as a servant. For about
eleven months the husband knocked her
about with a broomstick, and the wife
beat her with an iron dipper: They used
to take her to the cellar, strip her naked
tie her up by the wrists, lash her with u
horsewhip till the blood ran down her
limbs, and then rub the raw flesh with
brine. She made her escape at last, and
was found one morning in the open fields
with bare feet and legs, and wearing only
single thin uDdergarment, so saturated
with blood and filth that it had to be peel
ed from her body, like o scab. She ,ap-
peared in court with evidences Of torture
SO pitiful upon her person that stout men
wept at the spectacle. Her jaw had been
broken; her hair had been torn out by
handfuls; her face was swollen and de-
formed; her lips were cut open; her eyes
were blackened and Scared; her whole
body was bruised and discolored. Little
wonder that the neighbors were with diff
ficulty restrained from wreaking Lynch
law vengeance on the authors OF the out7
rage. .ari'. a .-.rt3. a-lsil a
The same day we reported the diseov-
cry of the dead body of an infant in an,
alley way in this city. Its throat had
been cut from, ear to ear; the head was
nearly severed from the body; there were
three or four cuts about the neck, as II in
fiictedb by the trembling, hurried hand Of
woman. On that day also another case
of infanticide was added TO the long list
which disgraces our annual police calen-
dar. An unknown woman was seen to
drop abundle in rwenty-sixth-st. When
opened ii was found to contain the MUIR
dcred body of q child, killed by strangu-
lation.
One,of the mostshocking and inhuman
child-murders that TIVE ever read of occui-
redinthe early part of Marchin Warsaw,
Indiana. An abandoned woman named
Hines apprenticed her little boy, four
years of age, to Mr.. and Mrs. Harl.-
They were'to haveitept tile boy until he
was of age; but the process of "eonquer-
ing" him which the man Harl immcdi-
ately commenced was too severe for 50
tender baby, and death relieved him of
the charge at the end of four, weeISs.--
The day after his Introduction To his new
home the pOorinfantwas whipped with
"a blacksnake whip" because he did not
know his letters. lie was scourgedwith
a knotted wagoIi1whip, beaten with
straps, knocked out of his chair for fall
of board until his flesh WINS Like a Jelly.
One day the brute Harl hanged him by
the waist from hook IN the wall, took
Off his shoes aud stockings, and kiiidled
fire under the solcs of his feet. When
the flames began to die out, the child's
mother, who was present, was compelled
with dreadful threats, to bring fresh
Goals. This torture lasted nearly half ap
hour. Then the sufferer was taken down
and tied to bed-post. Spent with pain,
he fell asleep; for this crime he was lock-
ed up half naked for two hours and half
on a cold February day In cellar. At
night the executioner dipped his head in
bucket OF water and imprisoned~ him
again I'm the cellar Then he t,irnedhiin
out of doors in his shirt and trousers
After the burning, said Harris wife, in
her testimony In court, 1.-THE child was
not able to run as well as usual" Some
times, IA variation of the torture, the
boy was hanged up by the heels. One
day, after he had been whipped as usual,
he seemed "very poorly" he "did not
talk any, and at noon he was put to
bed. Early in the evening Harl sent his
wife to her room. 1T was very latewlen
he followed her. ave had no conversa-
ton that night, says Mrs. Harl; the
child was not there in the morning. =
Mrs. Hines, the mother, suspected foul
play, and applied to a magistrate: A
search was made, and the body Of the
poor boy was found in trunk at the bot
tom fawel. Hafl made his oscnpe1 but
has Since been captured The wbfhcn
were both arrested and tried ~ Rece,H-
plices In the murder. They wore acaitt-
ted after an examination which seems to
show that tho mother, who had done lit
tie or nothing to prevent the foulcrueity
which had been exercised under her
very eyes, was the worst criminal of the
three. ."T - .L.1'
A few days ago German carpenter
was arrested In Chicago on n charge OF
whipping his child TO death. The1feigh-
bors, alarmed at the horrid outcries of
the little sufferer, sent word TO the poiice;
when the officer entered the house the
man and his wife Were absent, and the
child was found dead, lying ON her face
upon bed. Her back was n mass of
wounds; her garmants were saturated
with blood her neck was purple with
the marks Of clutched hand; the eyes
were open, and the face was distorted
with agony.
These things are almost too sickeping
for comment. We used to believe that
the wholesale killing of children by slow
torture was refinement of wickedness
In which England led the world but the
records Of the last year or two 80 far to
transfer the bad pre-eminonce To our
selves. Murder by the lash seems almost
to have become an epidemic, and one of
the worst features In the case Is that wo-
men are 30 often implicated IN the ulf
natural brutality. Astate OF society An
which such horrors can become freqdefit,4
such inefihble crimes be perpetrated by
parents on their own offapring-eries out
to Heaven for signal punlshmcnt,. .witha
cry 20 which G0a lean not long be deaaJ
Democrats and "sambo."
The Tennessee Democrats are making
Tremendous effortg for the negro yt,tt az