The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-03-13
AN APPALLING DEED.
A Frightful Tragedy Enacted In .
Lonely Virginia Farm
House.
A Drunken Fiend Slaughters His Wlfe
and Three Children and
Commits Suicide.
Washington Telegram !

The following account Of the Fauquer
County (va.) tragedy has been obtained:
Sunday last John Glascock. a well-known
and influential farmer OF Fauquier County,
Virginia, living near Delapane Station, on
the Virginia Midland Railroad, murdered his
entire family. consisting of wife and three
children, and then committed suicide. The
first intimation the neighbors had OF any
thing wrong ut the Glascock house was the
appearance OF flames and smoke through the
windows sunday morn NJ. A number OF
people ran to the house for the purpose OF
rendering assistance, but found. to their sur
prise, the doors and windows securely bolted
and barred on the inside, and the building,
10 all appearances, deserted. AS the flames
were making rapid progress, It was ncces-
sary TO effect entrance In some way, and the
first corners soon succeeded In battering
down one OF the doors and eventually In
putting the fire out.
THE HORRIBLE DISCOVERY.
No living person was found In the house.
but on bed I'm the family bedroom. over
which coal oil had been poured and then ig-
nited, were found the dead bodies OF Mrs.
Glascock and her infant son, the latter great
ly disfgured by the flames. Both had been
shot through the head with a revolver, and
the murderer, as IL to make sure work OF
Mrs. Glascock, had shot her q second and
third time through the body. On the floor
near tho burning bed lay the dead bodies OF
the two other children, Rodney and Emily,
both shot through the head, and the for
mer also shot through the body. In
piece of woods overlooking the
farmhouse was found the dead body of John
Glascock, tho husband and father, who, after
numbering tho whole family and setting fire
to his house, had gone TO this piece of woods
and committed suicide by shooting himself
with the same revolver used In killing his
wife and children.
GLAsCOCK's METHOD.
1t now appears that Glascock, while labor
ing under some hallucination or At of tenn
porary insanity, drove away the servant
early Sunday morning murdered his family,
poured coal oil over the bod and set fire to IL,
fastened up the house, and then went TO
the cabin of a neiyhbor and pretended TO be-
in need of n servant to cook breakfast for
himself and family. He then returned, as
his tracks in the snow indicate, to the vicint-
ty OF his own house, and, finding the tragedy
had not yet been discovered, proceeded to
the edge of a piocc of woods overlooking the
farm, where he seems to have watched his
burning house until 1t was entered and tho
fire extinguished by neighbors. He then re-
tired "A few PAGES farther into the woods and
shot himself through the heart.
BIOGRAPHICAL,
The murderer and suicidewas the son OF
wealthy parents, and had very large and in
fiuential family connection. He was n son OF
Thomas Glascock, who lives beyond Fau-
quier County, in Loudoun, but owns more
land in Fauquier and pays more taxes In this
county than any other one man. The young
wife, Marie Glascook, was the daughter OF
Herod Frazier, formerly OF Loudoun County,
Virginia, and now a citizen OF Missouri. The
father, mother, and three children were
buried side by side in the cemetery near
Middleburg, Va. Glasoock WAS given to
drink, and it is believed was crazed by liquor.