Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-24
,arrIY sLAUGaTERED

Tneouto, Can, 0teos OF . nv
.,taius . long account Of ono OF
~ eold .blooded and unprovoksd
~. svsr committed, from which
siIcsing Is an extract;
~. Emma Cook proceeded to the
snd as her hands were covered
81, vhen she was discovered,
ave BEEN in the DOT Of getting
ionr for the morning meal. when
- Mann, who was probably
-. rsit for her, Ieaped from bis
Mace upon her, and IN q short,
es,uople overcame her by sheer
- choking her to death before
..s,Id ory out. Her mother misaing
~ he kitchen probably went to
End was keeping her, and was
ssd mon by the murderOus villain,
z.s,uaf her q blow on the head with
.ss.saer. or other blunt instrument,
"a. canning her; he then strangled
...;1h 4 rope in the same manner as
NJ kilIed her daughter, whose yet
~ BODY lay upon the ground. Mann,
.snears. had had some words with
~ Mr.. Cook, a. has since been
ossred. 80,
Sruuld appear that having killed
~ and daughter. he then went into
hsrn yard, where Mr.. Cook was at
- the pigs, and sprang upon him
~ axe. He struck him q stunning
- sud when the old man fell hacked
4 q him until tho life was battered
z him. No fewer than a dozen axe
nd0 we're made in the old mans
1r|I and neck.
Theu going into the house, he entered
sbed room Of the sleeping young men
5aliam and George. He attacked the
i1w Arst. Both slept in the same
sn. but in separate beds, and with
- blov the murderer disabled his VIC
and With a0other killed him out
"a. A sharp cry or gr0an was all the
vninc William had Of the fate Of his
ss1hsf. BE turned qaickly from his
~. only In time 70 confront Mann.
~ whose axe his brothers blood was
TinpiuQ. He had not an instant to
fIsk. vhen crash came the axe upon
|3n. enA such WAS the force of the blow
~ his thigh bone was fractured.
- he murderer aimed blows at him
~ ne axe, and one Of them struck
n a tho back Of his leg, inflictine
1(hor terrible wound. Still he fought
1ear life, and the noise Of the strug-
heoueht Fannie. his sister, from hez
4 torEible sight met the gaze CT the
- girl, bat she did not falter a mo-
- She rushed forward, and the
C1sgers attention now was turned
- hes. In the unequal struggle that
ou1d abe received two flesh wounds
~ shoulder and back. Her Screams
~ brought her sister Maggie on the
80 and the latter being the more
1zo Of the two was able to catch the
r. Il their assailant. They were all
- the bed, and the struggle was
|SNn. Maggie never for q moment let
& IT desperate hold Of the axe, and
hid was overturned in the struggle.
. = Nas then victorious. Az she rose "a
u floor IL possession Of the axe, VIII
- hy on the floor to all Appearances
~. Mann Rlared q moment at the
petate girl, who held the axe poised
Dw her head. He then attacked
ME and threw q glass lamp-stand a
4 which he followed by the lamp it
lhivering it in pieces ON her head
ncRie retreated to tho other room by ,
low, and called upon her sister I,
Nv. She Could not get aVay fae
IDnah to escape his fury, but At lengt
|6naged to reach her s'ster. The mur
)r then fed down the back stairs
) girls went by the front way. A
&4sonr door the girls Attempted to es
lDo. Mann had Ia the nieantim,
I'D himself with q poker. and st0OS
1(he kitchen door looking at them q
kresolute whether to go on with th,
II Of blood or not. This frightened
: ulrcady terrified girls. still more. On,
tA1m ran back up stairs TO look afte
J brothers, and the other ran out OF
6Ioad where she met Miss Pratt, thl
I1ool teacher Of tho village. Ths
In1her required NO second telling, bu,
u q fast as possible to Mr.. Ross
- some five hundred yards up the
~ Meantime the hired man had
~ toward the riyeI'and fed.
" only cause that could be assigned
nnlive for the crime was that ths
- bad refused to allow Mann to 40
osny them al a guest to . party
= they had attended, he being I