The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-09-17
Crime.
SHOCKING BgTSgEeY OF FOUR
Further Particulars Of the Murder M
the which Family-No Trace OF the
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Further Particular Of the Murder NJ
the which Fsmily-No TrRoe Of the
Criintnats yet Obfeiued. ~
Il Especial Telegram 10 the Cincinnati Commercially
LOUISVILLE, Sept Gone Of the most
! appalling tragedies that ever occurred in
this section of country was enacted on last
Thursday afternoon, in a lonely spot infthe
dense forest leading from Rondolph Sta
ton, on tho Louisville e Nashville Rail
road, some ton miles south Of this city,
The point ut which il tranBpifed "a known
rs Lost Island aud Pond Tslahd, aud Is in
the midst of the forest, with no human be-
ing nearer than two miles4the distance 10
Randolph Station. I.ff ruE
It appears that an industrious German
named Which, and known as Charcoal
John, q name given him because he had
been engaged, to some extent, in burning
charcoal, occupied, with his family, a little
log house on a piece of land owned bY
Charles Smooth. The. family Of Charcoal
John" consisted of his wife, AIT infant
child, and n little daughter Ave years of
age. They were highly esteemed by thor
few and distant acquRintances az ~ thrifty
aud worthy familys md had managed 60
save a few hundred dollars toward future
necessities aud comforts. a. ~.
Yesterday morning, some tinerant pass
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ering the body of john, lying not far dis
tant, IN a pool of clotted blood. his skull
broken in aud the brain oozing from H.
The frighthul wound had evidently been
made with au OK. A portion Of one of the
murdered mans ears had been hewn of.
and his face was coated with %stagnant
blood, On unacceptable mass Of human
gore. =. r.t- oil. n.fE
About sixty yardsf nom the father was an-
other horrible spectacle. Here lay the dead
bodies Of the mother and her infant Child.
Her skull had also been broken, and there
wus a fearful cash in her throat probably
from a blow intended to sever her head.
The head of the child wasialso broken, and
both were covered with blood. i b iftI..I
Still further on was a spectacle even more
CHASTITY, II that were possible. There was
the little daughter, only ave years Of age.
She lay stone dead; her right shoulder 1T
erally cleft from its place, and n frightful
cash descending deep into the body, the
blow having evidently been struck while.
the poor child was ~endeavoring 10 escape
the clutches of the murderer of her parents
and sister.
As soon as possible after these stirling
discoveries were made, a messenger was de-
spatched to this city, and arrived n little
before 3 o'clock, proceeded to the Office of
the Superintendent of Police, whore he
laid the story before the authorities. OH
Ger Dillon and Coroner Dick Moore we're
Immediately despatched to the :plnce des-
ignated by the messenger, and left here in
a buggy. Shortly, after getting into the
woods, beyond Randolph Station, the bug-
gy broke down, and they were compelled
to start on foot aud employ a guide, be
fore reaching the scene of the forest trag-
edy, they several times became lost To the
dense wood, aud II was With the utmost.
difficulty they finally reached their desti-.
nation. Detective Dillon found the body
Of the murdered charcoal burner inelosed
ina rail pen which had been erected 10
keep OF the hogs The bodies OF the wife
and childreu lay where they had fallen.