The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-09-19
TrIDIe Murder In Ohio Suicide Of the
Supposed Murderer.


CINCINNATI, Sept. 3.--The particu-
lars Of the killing Of three women n waynes-
Vile, o., with . Ratchet were briefly tele-
graphed last night. The suicide Of Willie
Anderson, son OF Mrs. Hattie, one OF the VIC
tins, news OF which has just been received,
completes one Of the most remarkable eases
a crime in'the history Of the State. The in
yestigaiion Of the Coroner and u detectives
TODAY have developed the following facts:
Mrs. Hattie lived In Wayncsvillc, a small
Quaker village In Warren County, with vii.
M Anderson. her son by former divorced
husband, lad Is years Of age. With her
we're staying temporarily her sister. Mrs.
Cle,nenfine Weeks Of Cincinnati, and L.
year-old daughter Of the latter. One week
aro last night neighbors Of the family heard
screams issuing from the house. but little
attention was paid 10 the fact. On Sunday
morning the boy Willie left Wayncsyille for
Cincinnati. On the same day persons. pass
ing the house noticed an offensive smell COM
ing thcrefrom. Yesterday afternoon II got
90 bad that the Marshal yentured 10 open one
Of the windows, when
TnE STENCIL BECAME HORRIBLE.
Entering he found the room In confusion and
two dead bodies lying one on bed and the
other under. A further search revealed
third body In the back room, and all were In
An advanced stage Of decomposition, while
DtIu u
eaten by rats until the hair and scalp were
All gone. The bodies were unrccogaizabIe
except by the garments. The mother and
child lay In the front ROOM Mrs. Hattie, n
the back room, near lounge, Was covered
with tick, and had her head mashed. The
victims had evidently retired, the little girls
board, stained and tumbled, while the child
las on the bed. partially covered by clothes.
The poor mother had crawied under her bed
70 die. Her arm vas gashed with blows
nom the Ratchet, n II Il had been put up 70
protect her head
SUSPICION At ONCE
attached 70 the boy, whose conduct toward
the close Of the week hsd been noticed 70 be
suspicious II appeared by testimony before
the Corooer to-day that he had left the house
on Tuesday night and spent the rest Of the
week n hotel. He was seen, however, sew
eral times going back to the place, and the
discovery Of dime novel. which had been
loaned him on Saturday, lying BY his moth
er's side shows that he must have spent some
time In the house - late ~ Saturday night
i appears that after leaving waynesvilIe on
Sunday morning he came to Cincinnati,
where his father, Daniel r. Anderson, 4 Iiv-
ing. He stayed 1t hotel here over night,
visited his father, and passed the time about
the city. Last night he resolved 20 70 back
TO the scene Of the tragedy, whether with the
Intention OF confesSing the deed or Of putting
. bold face upon the matter l. not known.
He had no money, and, being unable 10 pay
his fare. was put on the train af Plainyille. .
few miles out from Cincinnati. He went 70
ahotel. but was refused admitfance. not hav-
Ing money TO pay his lodging. Nothing more
was seen Of him until o'clock to-day, when
he was found ON coal heap near the station
with
BULLET THROUGH HIS HEAD
and his right hand grasping a small thirty
two caliber pistol. lie had been dead srme
hours The motive Of the lad for commit
tlng the terrible crime can only be surmised.
He was living apparently on good terms with
hi mother and aunt. and was regarded In
the village and In the printing-officc where
he worked n a peaceahlc hoy. The only
thing which affords cIew 10 the mystery i
that he acted for or with his father. Mrs.
HATTIE wiDmarried 10 Anderson when she
was ~ years old. She was pretty Girl. and
In her hitter years WAS regarded as a hand
some woman. After the birth Of the son
difficulties ar6-e and a divorce followed.
subsequently, the woman was married to a
Mr.. Hattie. who died not long ago in an in
sane asylum The theory ~ the detectives
4 that Anderson u In some way implicated
in the murder. and that Mrs. Weeks and her
daughter were killed because they were Wit
nesse~ ~ the deed The deed has created
profound sensation, and further details are
eagerly awaited.