Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1872-04-02
Extraordinary Fatality in a Leesbure
(Ya.) Family.

The Leesburg (Va) Mirror of Wednesday
says:
On Monday last little daughter of Mrs.
Emily Lloyd, of Leesburg, aged about four
years, died alter brief illness. About four
years ago the father, MIR. Charles E. Lloyd,
died OF the pneumonia, leaving wife and
tour children, two boys aud two girls A few
months alter his death the two boys sickened
aud died rather suddenly. -Four or five weeks
ago one of the girls also sickened and died.
and on Monday the fouIth and last child died.
after two days illness.
All of the children were similarly affected.
and all of them apparently from the same
cause. On Tuesday, at the instance of r.
M. bentley, recorder, jury of inquest was
summoned, and they examined several wit
nesses, among them Mrs. Lloyd, the mother
OF the dead child, Julian A. Hutchinson.
Drs. Gross, Mott and Edwards, aud negro
girl in the employment of Mrs L. The jury
was then adjourned until o'clock Tuesday
evening. In the meantime postmortem ex>
animation OF the. body was made
From the Wushinytoniun of Saturday, we
gain the following additional particulars -
From tho facts elected upon the nvestisa-
tion and by the post mortem examination made
by the physicians, it was decided to have the
stomach Of the cllid submitted to chemical
analysis. 1t was carefully enclosed in glass
jar, and carried to baltimore by Recorder
Bentley, on "Wednesday morning, with in,
structions to have it submitted to the usual
chemical tests in such cases, by Professor
Tonery. No evidence has yet been given to
the public-the examination having been
made privately, and the jury adjourned, and
Will wait the result OF the chemical ANALYSIS
OF the contents Of the stomach, before render
ing their decision. 1t would not be prudent
to give publicity to the reported facts ascer-
tanned on the examination, in advance of the
verdict Of the jury.
The result Of the chemical tests of the con-
tents of the stomach by Prof. Toney will
solve the question, whether other than natural
causes produced the result, and we should
guard against conclusions until all the facts
are known
KEPoRTED DEATH OF THE CHIEF OF THE
LowREY GANG.-The New York Herald
prints what purports to be letters from cor
respondent, who says that he has spent some
days with the Lowrey outlaws of Robson
county, N. G. One of these letters gives the
following account of the death of Henry
Berry Lowrey, the leader of the gang:
"Between February 18th and 10Th in cons
pany with Boss Strong, Henry Berry Lowrey
was ranging the country in the neighborhood
OF Moss Neck in search of some persons whom
ne had been informed were hunting him. thew
discovered in the bushes newly made blind,
Ia place of concealment of ambush made bv
INTERVIEWING the branches of the thickly grown
bushes). 1t was not then occupied, and
Henry Berry Lowrey, believing that it had
been recently made by one of his pursuers.
who would shortly return to it, ensconced
himself in it, while Boss made blind for
himself short distance off, covering the road.
But few minutes after they had placed them>
selves in their respective positions the report
of gun was heard from .Heurys hiding place.
when Boss, who waited to hear a word from
his chief or an answering shot from an enemy.
cautiousl y approached the spot, Henry Berry
Lowrey lay on his back, with one barrel of his
shotgun discharged, and his nose, forehead.
and the whole front of his head blown off
The broken ramrod and the missing wiper
showed that he had been trying to draw the
load from his gun. Boss drew the body into
a thicket and notified his companions, who
straitway buried him."
DEATH OF AN Ex-CoNFEDERArE.-Co
b. "a. Jones, author of the Sunny South +"
and Assistant Clerk in the West Virginia
Constitutional Convention DOW in session at
Charleston, died Tuesday week The deceas-
ed was Colonel of the Forty-fifth Virginia
Regiment in the Confederate service.
Col. Charles Douglas died at the Reamer
House, in Leesburg, Va, on the 23d instant,
after short illness of dropsy of the heart, in
the seventy,hfth year of his age. He was