The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-16
Dying Statement Ct Mrs. Mauck, Who
Was So Brutally Attacked
By Her Husband.
The Citizens Of the County Wild With
Anger Over the Affair.
A Large Number of Coopers Thrown
Ont OF Employment at Anderson.
THE sLAUCK TRAGEDY.

An Interview With the Dying Woman-'.My
Husband Killed Me- Says the Deposition
of Mrs. Mauek-A Reward at Last offered
The Dying Woman's Wardrobe.
Special to the Sentinel:
NEW ALBANY, Ind, April l4.-And now
comes a new chapter in the terrible Harrison
county butchery. The Sentinels correspond
ent to-day interviewed Mr. Henry Mauck. a
second cousin OF David S. and Hugh Mauck.
and from him obtained the following facts:
He left the neighborhood of the tragedy
Sunday evening. Both Mrs. Mauck and Miss
Vaughn have returned to consciousness. Miss
vaughn's previous statements were made
while she was in semi-delirious condition.
She now says she did not recognize Hugh
Mauck in the house the morning of the
butchery. She did recognize David S. Mauck,
and it was with him she had the terrible COM
bat for her life. Mrs. Alauck says it was her
husband that struck her with the AK. Both
women have made their dying dispositions to
this effect, and Mrs. Mauck has given in her
deposition the full details of her treatment by
her husband for the past six months, which
has been cruel in the extreme. She has made
the request that If hef husband is arrested be-
fore her death he be brought to her, so she can
assure him with her last breath that she never
merited anything but love and kindness from
him.
Both women Will die, the physicians think,
though there is some hope yet for Sally
Vaughn. She received u wounds, seven of
which were upon the head, one causing frac-
ture of the skull three or four inches in length.
This latter wound is greatly 1nfiamed, and an
abscess is forming from it near the base of the
skull. She is {. large and strong woman, and
had She been armed with even a club would
have proved too much for the murderous
Mauck.
Mauck took INTO the house with him on the
morning OF the murder an ak, hatchet, oak
club nearly three feet in length, part of a
heavy oak barrel head and a large stone. On
. all these except the hatchet were marks of
blood, or hair and blood. The hatchet was
not used. The wife's wound was made by the
ak. and she was struck but one lick. The
barrel head oak club and stone were used on
Miss Vaughn, who fought for her life with ter
rible desperation.
Hugh Mauck is in jail at Corydon under
bond OF $500. and VIII have a preliminary hear
ing two weeks from to-day. His grandmother,
with whom he lives, will testify, she says, that
he was at home at the time of the murder.
Unless there are other developments implicat-
ing him, he will probably be discharged.
There is deep feeling against him, however.
and unless he Immediately leaves the county,
his life VIII not be safe.
- IS sdlQ tldl OdNlQ ,. AduCkf pTlnClpfA
devil, was seen near Milltown, Crawford
county, Friday. Your correspondent doubts
the truth of this statement. He took a nearly
new suit of clothes away with HIM when he
fled. and no doubt is dressed in them, and has
made way with the bloody ones, with which
he came out OF the butchery- The citizens oi
Harrison county have offered a large reward
for his arrest, and the sum is being daily in
creased. II arrested he viii undoubtedly be
lynched. A part of one of Mauck's ears is of
And now the Sentinel correspondent reit.
crates his prediction that another party 10 this
fearful deed Of blood, besides the Maucks, will
yet be unearthed.
= Mrs. Mauck yesterday selected from hel
wardrobe the clothes in which sEe desires te
lie dressed for burial She entertains no hops
of recovery Many persons visit her and Mis-
Vaughn daily. and the Indignation against
Mauck is intensifying- No wonder; the Grim,
of which he is guilty has never been equaleS
in savagery in Southern Indiana.