The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-31
AN OHIO TRAGEDY

A Father, Mother, and Son Shot by n Dis
appointed Lover-The Mother Instantly
Killed, the Father MOrtalIy Wounded.
The Cleveland Leader of the goth has the fol-
lowing:-
The most horrible murder which has been
perpetrated in Northern Ohio, an appropriate
crOwning horror was perpetrated on Saturday
afternoon in Richfeld Summit county, about
twenty-five miles from this city. The circum-
stances are as tollows;-
A young man named Hunter, while living at
his home in Michigan, became acquainted with
and enamored of a young lady named Chloe
Gargett, of Richfeld. She was about twenty
two years of age, he twenty-eight. He was in
formed that a marriage was impossible, peremp-
torily ordered to desist from all correspondence
and to give up whatever pretensions he had to
Miss Gargetts hand. This aroused the demon
in his bosom. He swore that he would have her
or slay her, and used every means in his power
to execute his threat.
Last week he concluded that all endeavors to
obtain her in marriage would be useless, and he
set about to take her life. He came to this city
and stopped at the City Hotel, where he took
the stage for Richfeld Saturday. Arriving at
bis destination in the afternoon, he repaired i'm
mediately to the house OF Mr. Robert Gargett,
and asked where the daughter was. 'It makes
no difference where she is, answered the father,
you cannot see her"
81 win see her." said he, 'or I'll kill all of
you"
The father hereupon ordered him to leavel his
premises, and Hunter drew a revolver and fred,
hitting the old man in the head.
The old man fell, rendered insensible by the
wound, and the mother, who was standing near
| by, cried out to her daughter
''He has killed your father, fly, fy!"
The daughter ran up stairs and the murderer
| aimed at the mother, shooting her in the head
and causing instant death. The fend shrleked
| that he would kill all of them, and rushed for
| ward towards the staircase where the daughter
| had disappeared. The ladys brother, Rodney,
here grappled him, and a violent struggle en-
sued. In minute the bloodthirsty man
! triumphed. He leaped forth from the clutches
| of the brother, and, raising his revolver, fired
| at him shot that put him beyond the power of
interfering. Rodney rushed into the street,
! frantic from his wound, filing the air with
shrieks and screams, the life blood trickling
| from his wound.
In the meantime, the daughter hearing the
second report of the pistol, and seeing her
brother stagger through the streets, leaped from
| a secOnd-story window into the street and
sought refuge in a nelghoortng house. An old
lady, in whose house she entered secreted her
in cellar and then returned to her front door
just in time to meet the bloody murderer on
the threshold. He demanded admission and
was refused. The brave woman stood before
her door, barring the passage-way, and stoutly
refusing him adnittance. He here again de-
clared his purpose to kill the young woman,
mingling his threats with the most unseemly
oaths, and saying that she should either wed him
| or die.
It became evident now that Hunters plan was
10 assume INSANITY, ana nc at ones oegan 10 pay
this part as a closing scene in the dire tragedy.
A mother lay dead bathed in her blood, father
was mortally wounded. son was rendered wild
and insans from shot, and the author of all
this crime now began to enact the role of a
madman. With the seven-shooter in his hand,
four barrels loaded, he mingled with the excited
throng. calling himself murderer, and extend
ing his blood-stained hand TO all he met. "Shake
hands with me, said he; 'see how it seems TO
shake the hand of a murderer" 81 was deter
mined 10 kill or marry her." "If you don't
shake hands with nae I'll shoot you" "Hurrah