The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-11-22
THE WOUNDED DAUGHTERS.

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| The eldest daughter, Eveline,
! young lady nineteen years of age, hat
| received three wounds, one in the up
per and front part of the head, ant
, another in the middle of the head
near the median line, that must have
been inflicted with the sharp edge O
the ak. The temporal bones seemed
to have been torn loose to the base
This young lady will certainly die
within a few days.
| The younger daughter, named Mary
Park, girl Of fourteen, had received
three wounds. The first was over the
left eye, the frontal prominence being
broken in, and numerous pieces Of
the skull driven into the brain to the
depth oil three inches. The second
wound was upon the occipital bone OF
upon the back part of the head. II
was fearful fracture with considera
BILE depression of the skull, and the
wound was of so serious a nature that
the doctors thought it unadvisable to
raise the bones, as it could not posi-
bly, save the patients life. The third
wound was about the crown of the
head, with fracture and depression
of the skull and scalp. There was
no careful examination of the latter
wound, as there was not the least
shadow of hope of affording' any
relief. The wounds were undoubted-
ly made by the. poll of the AK.
THE CLUES TO THE MURDERERs.
Eveline, the oldest daughter, was
standing in the door when Young ap-
preached the house. he asked after
Mr.. Park, and she said her father and
mother had not yet got up, and re-
marked that somebody had struck her,
but that was all she could tell. It is
the opinion of DR.. Hay that the girl
was partially insane, and wandered to
the door, not knowing what she was
doing, and not having sufficient dis
cretion to discern her murdered broth
or who lay dead ON a lounge in the
same room, nor to recognize the fright
full condition of her mangled sister
who sat by the fire eide with her
brains oozing out from her head. The
only faint clue that has yet been OBJ.
tanned was found in the foot prints
leading toward the back fence. These
foot prints measured eleven inches in
length, and four or five inches in
width. On the rails of the fence
were discovered marks of heavy hob
nails. There was also found in the
yard half pint whisky flask; which
contained about gill of whisky.
THE PARK FAMILY.
Cyrus N. Park, the murdered faith
er, was a son of the late John Park,
one OF the early settlers of Clark Go
and has wide circle of friends in this
section of the country John Park,
ST., was once a preacher of the Dunk
ard persuasion, but latterly preached
the tenet of the Christian or Campel-
lite church. Cyrus M. Park, decd,
had four children, three OF whom we
have already mentioned. The fourth
is Marion Park, young man who,
on last Tuesday, married q daughter
of William Hartman, living in the
neighborhood. Marion Park, at the
time of the tragedy, was with his
father-in, law, Mr.. Hartman, and
yesterday, upon receiving intelligence
of the sad fate of his father, mother,
brother and sisters, he had parox-
ysm of heart disease and became in
sensible, in which condition he re-
manned all day.
ARREST OF SUSPECTED MURDERERs.
A special dispatch from Louisville
to the Cincinnati. Enquirer, says that
George johnson, a negro, was arrested
on Monday morning, at Henryville,
Indiana, on suspicion of Numbering
the Park family. He contradicted
himself under examination, and was
SO contradicted by other Witnesses
that he was held as implicated by the
evidence in the murder of the Park
family. Upon being told that the
was already traced to him, he
that he had two other ne
groes, Squire Taylor and Davis, ex-
pecting to get about five hundred dol
lars by the crime, murdered the Park
family.
johnson says that he watched out
side and Davis held the light while
Taylor did the killing; that they got
one hundred and forty dollars, and
that the others refused fair divide
Parties were sent out Immediately to
arrest Taylor and Davis, which they
succeeded in doing. The excitement
was so great that the officers had to
take the murderers through the
woods to avoid the mob, and brought
them to Jef1ersonville, where they were
lodged in Jail to-day.
The two girls, Eveline and Helen,
can not recover. The funeral of the
three victims took place Monday
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