Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-25
A FATHERS CRIME.
Albert " s,r cuts uis wItes Throat, Heats
cut the Brains Of His Chiidrcn, snd
blows His own Head on

4 bert ~ gsr cuts uts Nifes IhrOst, heats
cut the Brains OF His Ch,idron, aud
Slows tits own Head On.
NpwcOmcrStown, Ohio, is now laboriug
under tho most Intense excitement over
the discovery, tuesday night, of ono of
the most shocking aud revolving cases OF
murder aud suicide ever occurring in that
section of Ohio. News reached NcwcDm
erstown about midnight that Albert Fri1er,
living about II! miles north Of Lock H.
Fryer Greek Valley, had murdered his
three children aud AiS wife aud then killed
himself. From Information secured on
the ground II seems that Tuesday night
about eight o'clock Mr. j. Neisbaum,
brother-in-hw of MIR Friznr, came
along the road past FHzer's house
and noticed that the COW 10 the
barnyard was rather restless MIR. Neis
baum made Investigation and found that
the animal had not been MIXED for several
days. Thinking this very strange no re.
paired - the house and found the doors
| all licked and br.tcd, the windows fastened
| and the blinds all down. lie called a few
paighbOrs and thnv began t. Inspect the
premises. Ca pecpng through window,
| the curtain Of whiGh was partially drawn
| aside, they welc Mortified at beho'dug
blood stains on the door and also mans :
| foot covered with blood near tue window.
| Lighting lanterns th'y raised the window
| aud cutrrcd the Aous', when a horrible
spectacle presented itself.
| Ca the door near the north window IN
| the east room Of the building lay the dead
| BODY vt Abort FrZer. white in the crib,
| standing against the side Of the room, not
| three feet from the father. lay the dead
| bodies ut his two oldest chtlig'n. Ol the
other ie of the room lay the maugled
| remaiuS Of Mrs. Fizer, with the dead
| body OF her infant clasped in her arms.
| Everything in the room seemed WEI. ar
tAugti, showing no 81 rus of = sCuiii,, aud
| tue evidence seems 70 BE- chat FrIler muir
| dtred his whole family while they were
| asleep and then killed himself, Mrs.
| Frzcr as found with her throat cut from
ear ~ ear and the infant IN bed with her
must have been baton 10 death with some
| blunt instrument as Il was covered wish
! b.Jod. Both the mother aui the child
were beneath the bed clothes and they
! probably died without a struggle. Tue
| TWO older children, both little girls, aged
| about three and five years respectively,
were lying in the crib with their feet toward
each other, and both had their head,
beaten almost to a jelly with spmo blunt
| instrument. On examination OF Frzcr's
face II was found 70 have been blown
completely of and an empty gun barre
which leauei against a chaIr near him
| told how he had killed himself. The gun
| had no stock or hammer and tae wrutChed
man must have loaded the barrel and then
! held one end iu his mouth aui the other
! IN the flame of lamp until II exploded,
as the lamp was found shattered 70 pieces
! on the floor The horrible deed must have
| been done on Sunday night, rs on that
night they were last seen alive.
On Sunday evening Mr.. Frzsr's broth
er in.law, Mr.. Judy, had talk with him
aud on that occasion FrZer told Judy that
he mai been to NewComerstown aud con
suited DR.. Beers, who had advised him t.
quit work for a while uulll his health got
better. He had been sick for some time.
Il is thought that on the fatal Sunday
night Frizer must have become very de
spondent and temporarily insane from
broOding over his having to give up earn.
ing his living, as be was no. u the best
ci rcumstauces.
The house in which the horrible tragedy
occurred Is a story aud haf frame struc-
turc and stands along the road to Fryer
Creek NaIley,a few rods from church and
school house. Il Is tha same house
where Mrs. Frzer was born and belongs
to her grandmother, The premises around
the house are in splendid condition, every
thing having the appearance OF nCatne5s
and good order. FrIZer was a carpenter
! by oc .upatlOn aud was highly respected
in his community. He was about thirty
two years of age, Nothing has ever oc.
Cured in that section Of Ohio that ha.
caused such intense excitement aud tn,
news Of the terrible crime spread like
wildfre, and hundreds from all over the
surrounding country visited the premises
The general opinion appears 10 prevail that
! Frzar was undoubtedly insane, IS 10 man
could have perpetrated suca a deliberate
and coId-bIoody murder in his sane mo
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