The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-05-06
NEW SERIES---NO. 27O.

guilty OF murder; and so, knowing what
she did, thought it the safest plan to put
her out ofthe way. had come TO This
conclusion good while, and set the time
Sunday morning Nov. 3.
The house is sod one, containing two
rooms,-th first with two beds and a crib.
and the other kitchen, where the cooking
was done. In one corner of the room was the
bed occupied by Mr.. Harrison and the two
little girls. AT the foot of the bed was the
CRIB, wherein slept the baby boy Jesse"
IN the opposite corner of the room was my
p0d; and on the night Of the murder this
Wts occupied by man by the name Of
Brown, "a friend Of Mrs. H. and myself. 1t
was about 10 o'clock when went to bed;
Brown had gone few minutes before. At
this time the children were asleep and,
shortly after retiring myself, Mrs. Harrison
went to bed We had no words of dispute
IN the evening, and nothing unusual hap
pened. | slept some during the night, but
not sound; once awakened Brown, and he
growled considerably and for moment
had notion to kill him along with the rest.
This was on Sunday morning, and about
dawn | got up. had slept with my clothes
on, and therefore did not need to dress.
Inc first thing | did was to awaken Brown,
who got up at once and went to feed the
team and do other things about the stable.
1t was scarcely light at this time. and
went out and when about twenty rods
northwest of the house, near straw-stack
on the plowed ground dug hole with
spade and then returned TO the house
This occupied about thirty minutes and
was not very hard work. When ON the
ROAD to the house stopped two or three
timeS and looked around me and listened.
was ready for any sort of murder then,
ana would have killed my best friend
had he been in my way. Previous to
gong out had placed an AK near the
door OF the house, and, Immediately on re-
turning, took this and cautiously slipped
IN the house, and approached the bed in
which lay Mrs. HARRISON asleep She did
not hear me,-she was breathing regularly
and the children were also sleeping
soundly. looked over the situation pref.
ty well before made the first move. Once
more | listened; could hear nothing but
the steady breating OF the sleepers, and it
seemed to me then that my heart stood still
! At this moment do not know what tenn
ted mel passed across the room and pull
ed aside the curtain just trfe A ray
of sunlight came in and slanted across the
bed of Mrs. Harrison, tight over the parti-
ally-covered face of Daisy. At this she
moved little, and mumWed something
| like Mamma, mamma - and then went on
sleeping If she had said anything more
might have lost my courage; but the time
had comc,-now of never; and, without
waiting any longer, approached the bed
OF the mother. and, getting good aim at
her head, raised the Ak and struck her once
very hard on the left side of the head. The
blow must have killed her almost instantly,
for she never spoke, and scarcely stirred
sure OF my work, ! hit her second time,
near the temple; and then | turned TO
Daisy, who was still sleeping, with one lit
tie hand over her head and few curls and
part OF her face visible. She laid between
her mother and Mabel, with her head to-
ward the foot of the bed; Mabel laid next
to the wall. struck her twice with the
| fiat OF the AK, on the left side of the head,
near the temple. She, too, stirred but lit,
tie, and made no noise. Next I killed
Mabel,-struck her on the forehead with
the flat side of the AK one blow. and killed
her dead. Then | killed Jesse, who laid
sleeping in the crib.a, the foot of the bed
| struck him three blows, and killed dead
| then stood still moment. LOOKING At tbc
pea and' as Daisy mmned, and murmured
and writhed around some, struck her two
or three times more, and then she laid
quite still. All this time Brown was at the
stable, and did not return to the house for
some while.
The question now was how to get the
body out OF sight. | had not much time to
loose. First took the mother to the grave
had dug, and threw her in. Then came
back and carried both girls at the same
time and chucked them in the hole with
the mother; then l took the baby, Jesse,
and threw him in with the rest; covered
them all over with the blanket and scat
tered straw and dirt over them. The mother
was dressed, but the twogirls were in night
clothes, and the baby had on a warmer.
After all this was done, which did not
occupy thirty minutes, returned to the
house, washed my hands, which were
slightly bloody, and the went to the stables
where Brown was tooling around and after
doing a few chores, he and | started for
Hastings, and were two miles away bv sun
up. AT Junata Brown left me. At Has
tings three days. made few calls but
returned Tuesday evening home, or at Hal
sons and the NEXT day bOuuht n looJ of
corn and went on as though nothing had
occurred. When asked about Mrs. Hari-
son said that she and the children had
gone off with Brown, and probably would
not return soon, if they did at all.
WHEN the hand OF disease IS laid heavily
upon us, robbing life Of all its pleasures,
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