The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-11-17
THE INDIANA MASSACRE.
Further OF the Tragedy-Arrest OF
the Three Murderers-Their Con-
fession and Removal TO Charles
town-A Mob in Waiting to Hang
Them.
Special Dispatch to the Enquirer.
LOUISVILLE, November II, 1871.

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LOUISVILLE, November IA, 1871.
THE SECOND CHAPTER.
We to-day add another chapter to the
horrible tragedy enacted near Henry
vile, Clark county, Indiana, on Satur-
day night. The arrest Of the three
wretches who perpetrated the awful
crime has not in the least abated the
excitement either in the immediate
neighborhood or in the surrounding
counties. The feeling Of Indignation is
almost as intense at Charlestown, JEFF
fersonvllle and New Albany as at Hen
ryville, for the family was widely known
and stood so high in the estimation Of
the public as excellent, inoffensive'
Christian people, that this brutal muir
der has sent a thrill Of intense horror
into every soul that knew them.
BURIAL oE THE VICTIMS.
At eleven o'clock today Cyrus NJ.
Park, his wife and his little son John
Wesley, were laid away in the grave,
their gaping, ghastly wounds crying out
to Heaven for vengeance, speedy and
condign, upon their brutal slayers. The
scene was one Of the most solemn and
affecting ever witnessed. The stricken
relatives, torn with grief most profound,
wept like children as the clods ratified
upon the coffin.box. The cold, cloudy
sky poured out its tears in rain drops,
and the wintry wind sigring through
the leailess trees seemed a sad requiem
to the departed. Ere many days have
passed two more victims will 60 to meet
these three who now sleep so quietly in
the little rural burial place at the Leb-
anon Memorial Presbyterian Church.
THE TWO SURVIVORS.
DR.. Combs, OF Charlestown, who
dressed their wounds, says Eveline, the
eldest daughter, and Helen the Youngest
daughter of Mr.. Park, can not possibly
survive their injuries. Each girl has
three temple wounds upon the head.
Helen is most horribly mangled. Both
are now entirely insensble and appar-
emily unconscious to pain, and Helen is
probably dead ere this. Eveline clings
to live with more tenacity, but her ply
sicians pronounce her case utterly hope
less. Her skull is crushed in in three
places, and from two of the wounds the
brains oozed out All she has uttered
since receiving the wounds has been OF
a semi-unconscious character This
morning it was discovered that intiam-
nation had supervened, and her end,
the physicians say, will be speedy.
THE CONFESSION OF GEO. JOHNSON,
arrested on Monday morning at Henry
vile, led to the arrest on Monday night
of Squire Taylor and James Davis. All
three are negroes, and their brutal ap-
pearance would indicate their fitness for
the horrid crime. The prisoners were
securely pinioned and placed upon a
train at Henryville and taken to Jeffer-
sonville, where they arrived at forty-five
minutes past eleven today, and were
lodged in the State prison, and were
closely guarded until the 3:45 train on
the Ohio and Mississippi railroad LETT
for Charlestown, upon which they were
conveyed to that town, and lodged in
Jail. At the Charlestown depot an i'm.
mense crowd was assembled to witness
the arrival of the prisoners. Sheriff |
Baxter had ont the posse comitatts to
preserve order This was necessary, for
the feeling against the prisoners was
intense.
THREATS TO HANG THEM
from the first convenient tree had been
freely INDUCED in during the day. 1t
was we'll for their safety that the prison
ers were sent TO Charlestown by rail, for
had they been started over the ordinary |
travelled road they never would have
reached that town alive. The citizens
living in the neighborhood Of the muir
der would have hung them before they
had travelled halt the distance.
SQUIRE TAYLOR,
whom johnson alleges did the killing
is known throughout Clark county. |
Heretofore he has been regarded as an
honest, industrious man, and had many
friends among the white people. The
animal predominates in his face, and he
had a hard and careless look, even in
the terrible emergency in which he
finds himself placed by the confession OF