Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1869-01-30

failed to borrow one. - - l
About O'clock Carr started from.
Sewellsville, bis iptention being, he
says, to visit Fox's, and see if there was
was not yet chance Of procuring their
consentcto his marriages With Louise.
While on his way there, he saw the OBJ.
ject Of his insane passion coming down
the groads accompapied By her little
brother. When she came up, hejoined
lier. Bylthis time his dreadful purpose
mad become firmly fixed In his mind.
During the short walk the girl told him
that her grandmother, whose house she
had just left, had told her that her pa
rents had determined that she should
never keep his company again. The
peplv of Carr was that. "he guessed
both of them had q short time
to live" adding the query, "Louise,
are you prepared?" to which she
responded II am,'' and Immediately
afterher reply he pushed her down and
drew out the razor which he had hith-
erto kept concealed in his pocket, and
proceeded to cut her throat. The girl
threw up her hands, which were fearful.
ly gashed IN the struggle. 1t appears
that she did not make an ooutery, or
plead for her life, so, rapidly was the.
deed consummated. Subsequent exam
nation showed that the victims head
was nearly severed from her body,
though the spinal column was not, as
some supposed, divided - ~
It would be hard to find, in-that inn,
mediate neighborhood, more public
place than the spot where this deed was
done. Three farm houses are within
plain view of it, none Of them being fur
ther off than quarter of mile.
After seeing his purpose accomplished,
Carr walked up the hill in the direction
of Sewsllsville, getting out of sight just
as the father of the murdered girl, who
had. received the alarm from the boy,
came up. The guilty man, who had ir-
revocably determined onsuicide by shoot
ing himself, had gone in search Of gun,
venturing boldly into Sewellsville, the
news of the crime not having reached
there at that time. After some failures
he procured life at the house of fam
ly named Frissell.
After this he proceeded by round
about course to the coal lbank, which
was about two hundred yards from John
Fpx's, the home of the murdered girl,
and where her body then was. He pass
ed the night in the coal-bank, occasion
ally walking some distance out into the
field but what was most surprising, he
even ventured to the front of the house
and looked in at the window, watching
the neighbors preparing the body Of the
murdered girl for burial. We doubt if
the annals of crime can afford a scene
more grotesquely horrible than the pic
turesof this wretch, actuated by NOR
bid and unnatural curiosity, stealing
amid the darkness and silence of the
night to look, himself unseen, on the
mangled corpse of his victim
When day, broke he repaired to Fox's
spring -house, and proceeded to make ar
rangements for taking his own life. He
cooked the gun, tied a string to the trig-
ger, passed it over the end of rafter,
and then. by pushing the gun from him,
discharged its contents into his breast.
The ball passed through the outer and
upper portion of the left lung. Thinking
lthat the shot would not finish him, he
then proceeded to sever his windpipe by
drawing the edge of shoe knife several
times across his throat. As soon, as this
was done, he heard the shouts of his pur-
suers, the father Of the murdered girl
having himself discovered Carr stand
/ ing near the spring-house. Daniel
Mamma, at whose house. Carr is now
lying. was the nearest person to him,
and at Mammals request he threw the
rife down the hill, and Mamma went up
to him and arrested him. When he was
arrested be had the boldness to ask to
be taken into the house where the dead
girl lay. This, of course, her parents re-
fused. The chances are that Carr will
not recover from his wounds.