American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-06-12
A BOSTON HORROR LITTLE GIRL MUIR
UERED IN AURCH

Another murder, even more hOr.
rib.e in it's details than that of Mrs.
Bingham a few weeks since, WIS
perpetrated in this city May 23.
A little girl five years of age WAS
murdered in ii church, and bruised
AMI murdered in IL church, aud
mutilatcd. carried up into the tower,
aud thrown upon the floor OF the
loft. The victim of this cruel TRACE
dy was Mabel Ii. Young, who resid-
ed with her grandfather at 80 East
Chester Park. The latter, Mr.
James Hobbs, is ii well known and
highly respected merchant, senior
oil the firm of Hobbs, Pope & Co.
This afternoon Little Mabel, in com
pany with an amt, attended the
Sunday School anniversary eXer-
cises Of Warren Avenue Baptist
church. In coming oIt of tho
church at $50 the aunt remained
in the vestibule about ten minutes
cOnversing with some frienl Is, and
Oh starting home missed the child,
who IL few inmates before WIS at
her side. At first it was supposed
she had gone back into the church,
but when she WAS not found inside,
and persons outside declared she
had not come out the aunt bee me
alarmed, and search WAS common
eel in every direction. About 4
O'clock some ladies at an open wins
dow across the street heard faint
cries of the child apparently from
the church tower, and noticed an
unusual commotion among the
doves that swarmed in and out OF
the windows. Some young men
who had joined the search started
at once TO ascend tire tower. They
found the door leading up from the
organ loft locked, and on forcing il
open, were startled to see fresh
blood upon the floor and steps
leading up TO the next landing.
They also fonmd strip of board
covered with blood at one end, and
heard low moanings from above.
Ascending long steep flight OF
stairs and raising scuttle which
resisted the strength of a strong
m N, they found the mangled body
of "a child lying near the edge of
the scuttle, as though il had been
carried upstairs and hastily thrown
down there. Carefully they car
red her down into the church,
where large number of persons
had congregated, and into the pre-
sence of her -agonized fiiends.-
From the top of her head which
was broken in, blood and brains
we're slowly OOzing. while the nose
was crushed in and the face terri
bly, mangled. She was carried to
her grandfather's and Surgeons at
once summoned, who pronounced
the case hopeless, and her death
but question of a few hours at the
iarthest.
Thos. Piper, who has been sexton
of the church for about a year, was
soon arrested, and is now confined
at the Chiefs Office. He was en-
gagged at work about the church,
but his suspicious manner and his
that he had the keys, when
the two keys fitting the doors to the
tower we're taken from his person,
points strongly to him as the party.
He is . dark, heavy set man, about
twenty six years old, and has once
before been under suspicion of muir
der, but was discharged for want of
evidence. This last affair
lends additional horror to il.
three>qnartes of an hour
from the time the child came
ous of the vestibate Of the church
until she was found in a dying con-
dition. How she was enticed away
and for what motive, has not trans
PRED.