The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-01
THOMAS D. CARR.
HIS M~URDEROUs RECORD.

county, ON Thursday, the oath nj
timo. We take the following from
the GAINESVILLE Enterprise of that
date :
While near Raleigh, North Caro-
lima, the soldiers learned that a Fe-
deral soldier had been hung by
some Confederates, in the cellar of
a prominent citizen, and they i'm
mejlately organized a band Of if
teen and started without orders, to
burn it. Arriving at the house,
they found q rich planters resi-
dence, where wealth had been ex~
pended to furnish and make ele-
CANT all the apartments. He SAID
they searched through the fine
rooms and halls OF the mansion but
could find no men. There were on
ly women, who were left by their
rebel friends-the sole occupants.
They at length descended into the
cellar, and there, in all It's ghastli-
ness, found the dead body suspen>
ded to a sleeper. 1t was clothed in
"Union Blue r' They went imme-
JIateIy up and questioned the IN
mates about it and they disclaImed
all knowledge of the affair. The
soldiers Sc. fire to the building, fir
ing every room simultaneously so
as to save time. They then waited
to see it burn /; the women came
out, when they found that the dress
of lovely young girl Of seventeen
summers was on fire. They exiting
uished the fire and saved her from a
terrible death, on v to let her meet it in
a more shocking and horrible way
They outraged her person in the most
brutal and revolving manner, which
resulted in her death after a few ny
ering hours of dreadful pain They
went away and left her lying on the
grass in the orchard, without a single
friend or attendant. The rest had
fled. Car heard of her death the next
day, when he remarked, the mrn that
done that ought to be hung; and to-
day, one of the principal actors wos
hang Does not retTibutlOn surely
come? Does not vengeance strike as
with a thunder bolt the wicked and
cruel hearted ? R%etrlbution, earthly
or divine, solves the most mysterious
problems of wrong and outrage. and
with a strong hand marks the offend
er, even in the end of life
When al Salisbury. he became init
mate with a pretty girl, aad Alexand-
er McGinnis, of an Iowa Regiment,
was quite friendly with her also, which
made Carr very angry and jealous. He
met McGinnis at the house one day,
and struck him on the neck with a
pair of brass knuckles, knocking him
s~enseless and beat and stamped him
until he died. The disappearance of
McGinnis created the rumor that was
ahoat shortly after the murder of Lou
lisa Fox, that he had killed two men
in Iowa. Carr was never in that State,
and this makes clear that report ofhis
Iowa murders.
While at Columbia, South Carolina,
prison, a boy named Edwin Barringer
attempted to join the Confederate ar
my. Carr found it out and assisted by
two comrades, strangled the young
nal IA INV PlASblltAS AOOALs
lie frequ entity deserted his command
and on one occasion he was sentenced
to be shot for this crime al d was om>
ployed to dig his own grave. Even
then he was Indifferent to death as he
has been since his conviction in this
county. A petition was sent to the
President, and Carr was pardoned.
At Nashville he shot a negro thro'
the head, the ball entering behind the
ear and c"ming out of the forehead.
1t is not known what induced him to
commit this murder.
In Salisbury, No'th Carolina, he was
suited Carr by his language. In order
to wreak his vengeance. Carr gave him
opportunity to escape, watching him
closely all the while, and as he attemp-
ted to run Immediately shot him
through the back.
At Petersburgh, Virginia, he was
one of the gang Of eleven that stamp
ed a sutler to death in his own shop
Afterwards, while on a vessel to be ex-
changed, he attacked q colored waiter
who refused to give him food, disabled
the man and threw him overheard.
lie killed a street car conductor in
Baltimore because he was not allowed
to ride free. These, with a number
of others, in all constituting fifteen
murders, the last of which was that of
Miss Fox, the details of which our
readers are familiar with, make up
Cars dreadful criminal record.