Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-09
\ FIENDISH REVENGE.
The Work of Dynamite Cartridge Pre-
pared by Cattle Thieves.

EdcttHgS ~. ~ NpecidI oct. C.
Last Sunday night Cyrus Stark. of this
place, lost some cattle, and a day or two
ago he received an anonymous note saving
that three disreputable characters named
John B. Griffin, Seneca b. Miller. and
George Mulkins had stolen them. In some
way the three named heard of this note
and vowed vengeance against the sender.
Three miles west of here is twO-storv
frame house owned by John b. Rill and
rented by John A. Beach. In this
house last night were Gilbert Miller
and his wife, John A. Beach and his wife
and 5-mOnths-Old child. Samuel Graner.
and an old man named +. b. Miller. Beach
and his wife and child occupied the first
floor, which comprised a large room and a
bedroom, and Miller and his wife and the
rest lived up stairs. At O'Clock last
evening Seneca Miller appeared in the
yard and told Phoebe Miller that she must
look out, as there was going to be an aw-
ful affair, as Griffin and his companions
meant to get square with Anna Beach for
telling Stark who stole his cattle. At
$50 O'Clock some person threw dyna-
mite cartridge through the window of the
room occupied by Beach, with fuse at
tached. In the room at the time were
Mrs. Beach and her baby in the bed. John
A. Beach and Samuel Graner. The fuse
was not long enough for il to be seized to
throw the cartridge out. Graner grasped
a dOuble-barreled gun, cooked it, and
started for the door.
The cartridge had landed upon table
near the window, and on the table were a
tin pan and a tin dinner pail. just as
Graner opened the door the cartridge eX-
ploded, and Graner, looking out OF the
door, exclaimed, ID see John B. Griffin,
but ] can't pull the trigger" and he drop
ped to the floor covered with blood. The
cartridge had blown pieces of the pan and
pail into him, had destroyed every window
on the floor, torn down the greater part
of the ceiling, and split the floor timbers
underneath. Mrs. Beach had got out of
bed with her infant in her arms, and both
were knocked down and stunned, while
John a. Beach was blown from the main
room into the bedroom, and when he re-
covered consciousness he was hanging out
of the bedroom window. The inmates of
the house say that they distinctly saw
John b. Griffin and two other men with
him. One OF the inmates says that he
saw Seneca Miller with a gun, and an
other says that he saw three men hurry
ing away before the explosion. The man
Graner lay all night without medical at
tendance, as the people of Pawling did
not know of the affair until this morning,
when DR.. Pearce went to the scene and
administered to the injured mans wants.
lie found him with Il portion OF his en-
trails hanging out and put him under the
influence of morphine Pieces of tin have
been taken from his stomach and he is
very low tonight, and it is believed that
he will die. His ante-mortem statement
has been taken, and he says that he saw
Griffin in the yard. The evidence is posi-
tive against the three men, but up to dark
no effort whatever has been made 20 ap-
prehend them. The lower Eart of the
dwelling is a complete wreck.