Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-05-24
Horrible Murder in Boston.

BosToN, May ga horrible murder was
perpotrated 10 this city this afternoon. Mabel
Fl. Young, aged five years, who, with her
widowed mother, resided at 50 East Chester,
this afternoon, in company with an aunt, at.
tended the Sunday schoo! anniversary exercises
of the Warren Avenue Baptist Church. On
coming out of the church at half-past clock
the aunt remained 10 the vestlbule about ten
minutes, conversing with some friends, and on
stating home missed the child, who few
miuutes before was at her side. AT first it was
supposed she had gone back into the church,
but when she was not found inside, and per-
soDs oWsid, declared she had not come, the
aunt became alarmed and a search was COM
menced in every direction. About o'clock
some ladies at an open window across the street
heard faint cries of child apparently from the
church tower, and noticed an unusual commo.
ton among the doves that swarmed In and out
of the belfry. Some young men who had join
cd the search started at once to ascend the
tower, but they found the door locked, and on
forcing it open were startled to see fresh blood
upon the floor and steps leading up to the next
landing. They also found strip OF board COW
cred with blood at the end, and heard low
moaning from above. Ascending long, steep
flight of stairs, and raising the scuttle, which
found the mangcd body Of the child lying near
the edge of the scutte, as though it had been
carried up the steps and hastily thrown there.
From the top of her head, which was broken
10, blood and brains we're slowly oozing, while
the pose was crushed and the face terribly man.
gled She was carried to her residence and
surgeons at ouce summoned, who pronounced
the case hopeless and her death question ola
few hours at the farthest. Thos. Hooper, who
has been sexton of the church for about year
was soon after arrested, aud is now confined at
the chief office. He was engaged at work about
the church, but his suspicious manner and his
denial that he had the keys when the two keys
to the doors to the tower we're taken from his
person, points strongly to him as the guilty
party He is a dark, heavy set man. about
twenty.six years old, and has once before been
under suspicion of murder, but was discharged
for want Of sufficient evidence Scarcely three
quarters of an hour elapsed from the time the
child came out of the yestibule OF the church
until she was found 10 a dying condition. How
she was epticed away, and for what motive. has
not transpircd.
AND STILL ANOTHER STRIKE.--The Cum
berland News of Saturday says:
Yesterday the drivers of several of the coal
companies whose mines are located at or near
Homecoming demanded to be supplied with oil
for their lamps, or an addition of ten cents per
day to their pay. The Georges Creek Company
granted temporary advance of nine cents per
day, but the Maryland Company refused to al
low an advance or, furnish oil, when their
drivers quit work, and the mining of coal was
stopped. The drivers employed by the Ameri-
can and New Central Companies were at work
Yesterday, pending an answer to their demand.
Up to the commencement of the present season
the drivers had been furnished with oil by the
companies, but this Spring they were informed
that it would no longer be so supplied, and have
been buying the oil used by themselves since.
Their wages are two dollars and twenty tive cts
per day.