The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-05-14

aQncred 10 Tue point. ShoScls were at once
setto work, and ID a few moments CORE
was uncovered 10 had been buried an N
its face. The flesh bad dropped away from
the legs. There was no coffin, no winding.
sheet, no preparation for the grave, nothing
uron the body but en- old Shirt, torn IN
places, and thick with damp and decay. The
corp,c was tendcrly disinterrcd, and laid
upon its back in the full light Of the soft
Apr,' sun. One look of horror into the
CHASTITY face. ieStering aud swollen, aud q
dozen voices cried out in terror
1T Is DIR. Yopx."
And it was. He had been buried in a
shallow hole, with scarcely two feet of dir,
over him. Had he been murdered and
how: They examined him closely. Upon
the back of his head and TO the left. and
obiIqi'ctv from his right ear, terrible blow
had been given with Il BANNER. The skull
had been driven into the brain. Strong men
turned away from the s,ckrniny sight with
Shuu'trr; others wrpt. Some even had 10
leave the garden and remain away from tho
Silambics of the butchers.
II seemed rs il the winds carried the
tldlngs to thcrryralc. Id an hour all the
town was 1t the scene Of the discovery. A
coffin was procured for DIR. York's BODY.
and his brother, utterly overwhelmed, SAT
hy the CHASTITY remains rs one upon whom
the hand Of death had been laid. He could
not be comtoried.
But the horrible work wos not vet com.
plctcd. The IRON rod was again put in re.
QUESTION. Until six more graves were disco
>Crcd. five OF which contained each 4 corpsc
and The sixth containing two, an old man
and II little girl. Some We're in the last
stages Of decomposition. and others, not SO
lar gone, nigh; have bccu identified if any
anon. the crowd had known them in life
The scene WIS horrible beyond dcscrip-
ton. The daylight fled from The prairics
hlt the search went Oil with na'satcd yigor
\ fascination impossible to dctiue held the
spectators To the spot. The spirit of murder
was there. and it kept them in spite o: the
night and the brrror Of the surroundings.
The crowd increased instead of diminished
Collins were provided for all, and again was
tue search renewed. Ii was past midnight
when our informant left, but three more
graves had been discovered, each supposed
TO contain corpse, although they had not
been opened. The whole country is aroused
CourerS and telcgranls lave been sent in
every direction with descriptions of the
Blenders, and it Is not thought possible that
they can escape. With the crowd at the
grave was man named Brocknlan. who was
supposed to know something about the muir
dcr>. Furious men laid hold upon him at
once and s.run: him up. TO ii beam in the
house. His rontoItionS were fearful. His
ewes started from their sockets, and IL iiyid
hue ,qlmc to his face tint w;ls appalling
Death WAS within reach vi him when he was
cut down.
CONFESS. CONFESS. !"
they yelled, but he said nothing. Again he
was ierked from his feet, and again was the
strong body conyul.ed with the death-throes
Again reSlscitated, he once more refused tC
open his mouth. He did not appear to I'M
dcr>tand what was wanted OF bin. The
yelling crowd, the mutilatcd and butchcrcd
dead, the t1chcring and SwirlinS torches
suffering in the night wind, the stern, sci
faces OF his eXccutioners-all, all passed be-
fore him rs dreadful phantasmagoria, which
daZed him and struck him specifies. Fol
the third time they swung him up, and tbcr
hi heart could not be felt to beat, and there
was no pulse at his wrists. "He is dead, y
they said. Ru, he WAS not dead. The night
air revived him at last, and he was permitted
10 >tagScr away in the darkness as one who
was drunken or deranged.
Six hutchcrrd human beings were brought
forth from their bloody graves. and three
others are vet to be uncovered. 1t j. thought
that more graves will yet be discovered
The pit under the trap-dour was made TO re-
| cciye the body when first struck down by
| the murdcrcr'> hammer. All the skulls were
crushed in. and all ut nearly the same place
| one of The r"rpsrs was so horribly mutilated
~ !" ulakr the sex even il matter OF doubt
| The little girl was probably eight yclr> o
| age. ana t,d long, sunny hair, aud some
traces OF beauty on CountCnance thai
was not entirely di>tiyurcd by decay. No
! thing like this sickrning series of crimes
! has ever been recorded in the whole his
tory of til" country. People for hundreds
Of miles are fucking into Cherryyale. aDd
enormous rewards are to be offered for thu
arrest OF the inlirdcrcrS. 1T Is supposed ha
they have been following their horrible worl
for Years, iiundrr is the accepted callSc
DR.. York. it i said, Ind Il large sum o
money Oh III. pcrSon. and that he stopped Il
the house either TO feed his horse or get
drink Of water. While haltiu~ he WAS deal
the blow which killed him in m instant
Every one who knew him iikef him. None
Of the other curp$c> have been Identified
We have dispatclIcda special reporter to th'
scene. who will send u other and fuller par
tiruar> Of the diaboIlcal hiltchcrN.
LATEST ipNiGuT.
The following special Dispatch. received al
midnight. gives some further horrible par
ticulars
CMERKYvALE. HAS, May s, 1880 7. NJ
Seven more bodies have been taken up, be
| sides that of DR.. York, with three graves ye
, untouched. Six OF these have been identi
fled. II. Longchos, and child eighteen
| months old, We're identified by his iutiGr-in
law. The BODY OF W. +. Mccarthy has alst
| been Identified. II" was born in 1913, an(
served during the war in Company ID. Ont
Hundred and Twcnty.thrd Illinois yolun