Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-03-25

ucIc are cNldclccS, III tlle ulS-
ordered condition of the bed and
room, as well as marks on the body,
of fearful struggle for life on the
part of the victim. go
"There was not a candle or lamp
in the room, and, doubtless, the
dreadful struggle and tragedy was
covered by the darkness and gloom
of the stormy night. just as the
bell of Blymyer's shop tolled the
hour of one, in the midst of a ttri-
wing storm of snow and sleet with
out, and inky darkness within, a
woman's piercing shrek went out,
two groans of mortal agony rent the
air. a gurgling, choking noise was
heard, followed by the soand of a
displacement of furniture in the eff
forts OF the murderer 10 escape,
frightened by the knock at the door,
a window raised and slammed down,
leap to the soft earth, and a rapid
run toward the more thickly settled
portion of the city with no pursu
ers, and the wicked butchery is
accomplished" t.te
AS appears by the evidence, the
woman was a Cincinnatian. She had
lived at Mansfield very quietly, max
ing no disturbances among her
neighbors. She was abont thirty
years of age, and said to have been
quite attractive in form and feature
On the last day of the inquest,
Iuesday,the evidence was of a char
acter to still further implicate Rob
inson. 1t was proven that he was
opposed to the marriage of the de-
ceased, and endeavored to arrange
for her staying in Mansfield, by the
promise of work for her intended
husband. In this he failed.
The damaging testimony OF those
terrible teeth marks is as follows !:
CDR. Bristor, dentist, took a cast
of RobiEson's teeth, aud, by order
of the coroner, the body of Mrs.
Lunsford was exhumed AMI the
marks on the arm compared with
the cast by Doctors Lougbridge and
King, who both. together with the
dentist, swore that, after a careful
and repeated examination, with a
full appreciation Of the responsible
ty placed on them, they were finally
forced to the conclusion that the
bites on the murdered woman's arm
were made by the mouth from which
the cast was taken.
"The jury, therefore, carefully
weighing all the evidence, rendered
unanimous verdict finding that
Mary j. Lunsford came to her death
by the hands Of Arson L. Robin
SON." .--.
The friends Of the supposed mur-
derer have caused the publication Of
the following in the Mansfield Her
aid of the 18th inst.
A CARD TO THE PUBLIC
"a suspension of opinion is res
pectfully asked of the public in ref
erenee to the assumed participation
of Mr.. Anson Robinson in the muir
der of Mrs. Lunsford. He has been
in the employ of Messrs. Blymyer,
Day d Co., for seven years, and in
that of W. H. Clark, Zone of the
partners for several years longer,
and during all this time has never
exhibited any signs Of a violent or
rerengefh dispo ositien. He is rough
but kind hearted, ,aud no one know
ing him believes him capable of the
deed charged
The city is full of flying rumors
which are utterly without founda-
ton. No threatening letters. no
wrench such rs made and used in
the shops of Rlymyer. Day & Co :,
and no "bloody clothes" have been
found. On the contrary, he now
wears in Jail the garb he has worn
in the shops and which he wore on
that fatal evening of the murder.
Nothing as yet has been shown
against him. m.proving more than his own
voluntary statement of too intimate
acquaintance with Mrs Lunsford. This
We do not defend; but for this we may
not hang him: Let justice be done. but
do not condemn a man until the evi-
dence shows him guilty.
MANY FRIENDS.
LATER.
Special Dispatch to the Tin. Gazette
MANSFIELD, O., March Il.
The preliminary examination of a.
T.. Robinson, for the murder of Mary J =.
Lunsferd, took place to-day before the
Mayor. Dentists Decamp and Taft
testified to the surprising similarity
between the cast taken from Robinsen's
mouth and the corresponding marks
upon the woman'S arms. The counsel
for the defense. owing to the excited
state of the public mind, preferred to
close the examination at this point, land
allow their clint to be committed tor
trial before a higher court. The pris-
oner was. therefore, renaanded.
APPALLING CASUALTY.