Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-05
ONE PISTOLS FIVE LIVES.
A MAN KILLS HIS WIFE. THREE
CHILDREN AND HIMSELF.

The Green Eyed Monster at the Bottom
of the Tragedy-A FruitIess Atten pt
to Conceal the Crime by Burning the
House-Killing Himself in the Woods.
BALTIMORE, March A special from
Delaplaine, Fauquier county, Va. saws
SUNDAY morning, John GIascoek, while
in a fit Of passion, supposed to have been
cause d by jealousy, murdered his wife
and three small children, and after setting
fire to his house, proceeded to the woods.
about half a mile distant, and shot himself
through the heart. The fire in the house
was discovered and extinguished before
the bodies were consumed or much damage
had resulted. John Glascock was the
second and youngest son of Thomas A.
Glascock, one of the wealthiest land
owners in this section"
A FULLER ACCOUNT.
WASHINGTON, March 4. II p. M.-The
following account of the Fauquier county
tragedy has been obtained by a special
reporter of the Associated Press: On
Sunday last John Glascock, a well known
and influential farmer of Fauquier county.
va, living two miles and a half from
Delaplane station, on the Virginia Mid
land Railroad, murdered his entire family.
consisting of his wife and three children.
and then committed suicide by shooting
himself through the heart, in a piece of
woods near his house.
THE DISCOVERY.
The first intimation the nefghbors had
that there was anything wrong at Glag-
cocks house was the appearance of
flames and smoke through the windows
between and O'Clock Sunday morning.
A number of people ran to the house with
the intention of rendering assistance. but
found to their surprise that the doors and
windows were securely bolted and barred
on the inside, and that the building was
to all appearance deserted. AS the flames
were making rapid progress, it was neces-
safy 20 enect an entrance at once in some
way, and the first comers soon succeeded
IN battering down one of the doors and
eventually in putting out the fire.
HORRIBLE SIGHT.
No living person was found in the
house, but on the bed in the family bed
room, over which coal oil had been
poured and ignited, We're found the dead
bodies OF Mrs. GlascOck and her infant
son. the latter greatly disfigured bv the
flames. Both had been shot through the
head with revolver, and the murderer.
as II 20 make sure death Of Mrs. Glascock,
had shot her the second and third time
through the body. On the floor near the
burning bed lay the dead bodies Of the
TWO other children, Rodney and Emily,
both shot through the head, the former
shot also through the body.
GLAsC0CK's CORPSE.
In piece of woods overlooking tbe
farm house, at distance of about three
quarters of q mile, was found the dead
Dody OF John Glascock, the husband and
father, who, after deliberately numbering
his whole family and setting fire to his
house had gone to this piece Of woods and
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the heart with the same Smith Il
Wesson revolver which he had used in
killing his wife and children.
TERRIBLY DELIBERATE.
1t now appears that Glascock, while la
boring under some hallucination or fit of
temporary insanity, drove away servant
early sunday, murdered his family, poured
the coal Oil over the bed and set fire to if.
fastened up the house and then went to
the cabin OF neighbor and pretended to
be IN need Of servant to cook breakfast
for himself and family.
WATCHING THE DISCOVERY.
He then returned, as his tracks in the
snow Indicate, to the vicinity of his own
house, and finding that the tragedy had
not yet been discovered, proceeded to the
edge of the woods overlooking his farm,
where he seems to have watched his burn
ing house until it was entered and the ire
eXtingulshed by his neighbors. He then
retlfed lew PAGES further into the woods
and shot himself through the heart.
THE DEAD,
The murderer and suicide was the son
of wealthy parents and had a very large
and influential family connection.
THE WIFE.
His young wife, Marie Glascock, 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 yesterday in the cemetery near Mid
dleburg, Virginia.