Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-13
sICKENING CRIME.
A Double Murder "A wife Drained
with an AK and a Woman Servant
Clubbed to Death-Flight OF
Assassin and AccOmplice.

IS,
nos bv regulators or vigilants, seductons'
iehts, the demolition of saloons, burgiarles
and other less crimes have been OF frequent
occurrence In the past SIX months. IL must
not be concluded from this wretched state OF
affairs, however, that the people OF HARRISON
county are bad set. oneh Is h0e tlue;
There ia not in Indiana county OF equal
that contains more intelligent,
virtnons. honest or moral population than
Harrison: but being border county, 1t has
been unfortunately the receptacle of many
very bad people from other States, who,
,oined to the bad elements found in all COM
have turned the devil loose for
season and run into series of crimes of late
as startling as they are frequent. The
latest of these crimes, and by
far the most startling and shocking,
is an attempted double murder, which &C.
Cured at four o'clock Wednesday morning
in Washington township, few miles from |
New Amsterdam. The particulars of this |
horrible crime, as gathered by a Courier
Journal reporter, are as follows: David |
Mauck and Hugh Mauck are brothers, the |
first named twenty-f five years old and mar
ried, and the father of two children; the |
second, twenty-three years old and single
David lives in Washington township, Harrl-
son county; Hugh resides with his grand
mother, In Scott township, same county, their
place of residence being but short distance
apart. The two Maucks were engaged in
burning and barreling lime at point distant
about one mile from David's residence. They
were employed up to near three o'clock
Wednesday. morning IN barrellng a lot OF
Mauck entered his house, carrying into it
with him an ak and heavy oak club, which,
unnoticed by his wife, were placed against
the wall, near the bed on which his wife
and their two children were lying.
He remarked to his wife that he was tired
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and then laid down. The wife soon dropped
asleep again. In Mauck's family resided
young woman about nineteen years old,
named Sarah Vaughn, serving as help to
his wife. Miss Vaughn slept in an adjoIn-
ing room, and when Mauck went home his
talk awakened her, and she did not after
ward sleep, except in a half-wakeful doze.
About four o'clock in the morning, or one
hour after Mauck's return home, Miss aughn
was startled from her doing condition by a
blow falling with heavy thud and a shrek
from the room occupied by Mrs. Mauck. She
sprang from her bed and rushed into the
room, and was shocked beyond speech at the
sight that met her eyes. Lying upon the
bed was Mrs. Mauck, and from a frightful
wound on her forehead, over the right eye,
| the blood was flowing In a great stream, and
| she bore all the appearance of one quite dead.
| Near the bed stood her husband, David
Mauck, and lying on the floor close to his feet
was an ak, covered with blood, with the poll
of which the terrible wound had been in
| hicted upon the wife, which the physicians
say will certainly terminate her life. Miss
| Vaughn fully comprehended the situation, and
| with a shrek rushed to the rescue OF the
DOOR, wounded wife. But the murderous
/ appetite of Mauck was not yet satiated, and ,
| seiZing the oak club, about thirty-siX inches
| long, two inches wide, and an inch and a
! half in thickness, he made lick at Miss
| co1l 4 II
| for life. The brutal murderer ralned down
| the blows thick and fast upon the defense
less girl. She threw up her arms to ward
them off until her arms and shoulders were
| cut and bruised in terrible manner. -Four
heavy blows had fallen upon her head, and
her powers of resistance had become sc
weakened that she was an easy victim in the
hands of her would-be murderer, and a fifth
blow on the right side of the head cracked
her skull, and she fell senseless and appa,
rently dead upon the floor. David Mauck
then aed from his home where he haC
wrought such awful carnage, and is now
refugee, with the officers of the law on hi
in the morning Mrs. Pate, a neighbor
went to the house of David Mauch
on an errand, and discovered tn
crime. On entering the house she witnessed
scene that will never be erased from he
memory. A gimmer of consciousness hat
returned to Miss Vaughn after the flight 0
Mauck, and she dragged herself upon tn
bff tHe q Ebi6Gb aS AIRS edr4ffhF blood, weT
the two little children Of Mrs Mauck, pIav
ing over the unconscious form of the fatally
wounded mother. The sight was as sicken-
ing as it was shocking. Mrs. Pate immedi
ately gave the alarm, and during the forenoon
fully three hundred people gathered at tb,
scene of the double tragedy, and by til,
middle of the afternoon over two hundred
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search OF the murderer. Hugh Mauck VIII
is accused as an accomphce in the murder
was seen about ten o'clock gong from hi
grandmothers residence toward the lime.
kiln, but he fed at once, and has not since
been seen, and there is no d5ubt the twt
brothers are seeking refuge in flight to-
gether. brother of Miss Vaughn, Rich
ard Vaughn, got out warrant, through
MAJOR Jones, the prosecutor, charging The
murderous assault upon David and Hugh
Mauck, and it was placed in the hands o
SPECIAL Constable D. C.. Paris for service
Mr.. Paris visited New Albacy early yester
day morning and gave description of th,
Maucks to the police, after which he came &c
Louisville and notified the police here and II
is hoped they will be arrested. David Mauc!
is twenty-years old, five feet six inches IL
hight, blue eyes, light hair and light com
plexion Hugh Mauck is FIVE feet ten iuche
high, weight one hundred and fifty pounds
is light compected and light hair. At tWelv
o'clock Wednesday night, Mrs. Mauck wa
lying in an insensible condition, IN which
she has been since receiving the blow from
the ak, and was thought to be dying. Mis-
Vaughn had recovered consciousness sufi
GENTLY to give the details above written. Drs
Charles Reader and William Lopp pronounc
Mrs. Mauck's injuries certainly fatal The,
say there is possibility of the recovery O
Miss Vaughn. bat they consider her case ais,
hopeless. The excitement in Washington
and Scott townships, and throughout Harri
son county, IN consequence of the terrible
crime, Is described as most intense, and l
the Maucks are arrested and taken back t
the county, there is but little doubt that the,
will be speedily hung by the outraged people
1t is stated that Mauck was Jealous of hI,
wife, and that for several months their do
mestic relations were unpleasant. Both Mrs
Mauck and Miss Vaughn are represented
however, as women of lrreproachable charac.
ter. Mauck is a sober man, but is regarded
as man of vicious, bad temper, and wa;
not generally regarded with respect by hi:
neighbors. The tragedy has filed the entire
neighborhood with the deepest gloom as vel
as the most intense Indignation