West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1884-02-29
BURKING.
Three Persons mdrde ed That Their
Bodies Might Be Sold.
The Victims Pound Ia m Medical ,,o,,,.
a Clearing Up OF the Ayondnlc W..
ters-foar Men Arrestcd on sus.
piclon.

NiNCINNArI, February %. - Probably
never IN the criminal history OF this coun.
try has more diabolical premeditated
crime been perpetrated than one which was
brought TO light in the village OF Avondale
yesterday, when the horrible discovery
was made that three human beings had
oeen murdered in cold blood the object of
'ne murderers being 10 sell the bodies of
their victims 20 toe used as subjects on th,
dissecting tables of one OF Cincinnati,,
medical colleges. The ghastly deed was
mono other than the murder Of Beverly Tav
i"r, an inoifensive old darkey, and his wife
and granddaughter, and the subsequent at
tempt at destroying all trace OF the crime
by burning the building in which the
victims lived. The house was n one.story
log cabin, situated on the old Blacbl.v
'%uN, ON the Reading road, about n mile
and half beyond the corporate limits of
AVondale. thorough search OF the
ruined building failed TO establish any
reason for the belief that the inmates had
oeen cremated i'm bed. The possibility Of a
murder then dawned upon the authorities
OI Avondale, and Marshal j. A. Brown.
started TO ferret out the perpe
n"toTs OF the crime, whose only object AZ
was Delieved at that time. could have baep
Iesire LOT money, which IL was supposed
~
at Ieost, Every effort at finding the re.
mans was made. Every gully, ravine aud
hOuow was thoroughly searched during the
pust lew days, and still no tidings came of
ehI plssing ones. As n last hope OF dis.
pelDng the mystery, in which the disnp.
bvarance threatened to remain, Marshal
orowp, still untiring i'm his efforts i'm the
task Oh hnding the bodies, last Wednes-
called at all the IN medical colleges ans
where the bodies were likely TO have
been taken. He also called on DR.. }. l..
Cliley at his office. That gentleman being
NJ Me- 5nienonstrator OF anatomy at the Ouio
hedlcaI College, within whose wall many
missing corpse has been found, was re.
quested by the marshal TO kindly look ont
ior the bodies in question at the Ohio Col
,ySge' as ali subjects had 10 pass through
we DOCTORS hands to be analyged. DR.
Clley readily promised 70 do all in his pow.
Sf 10 hnd the bodies were they in his col
!ege' Dr. Cilley, who had heard the
teIe oeIe OF the burning cottage from Marshal
Drown, remembered that on Friday night
Ihree colored bodies had been brought 10
the college. Going TO the college, he exam.
med the three subjects in question, and
Iound that they Tailed with the description
ne had received from the marshal and that
evidence of foul play was also plainly vIsi.
pie, the skulls of all being more or less
fractured, and besides no evidence what.
ever OF their having been i'm the
burning building on Friday night could be
found, all OF which tended To
show, that they were deliberately
murdered, and removed to the col.
Iege before the firing of the house. Word
was sent 70 the Marshal and about noon
yesterday he called at the college and fully
Identified the bodies. Coroner Muscroit
IA connection with Drs. Ciley and Kebler
neld post mOrtem on the bodies yester.
day afternoon, and the report of these men
snow that they came 70 their death by VIC.
renee. -Four negroes were ARE sted on sus.
picion of being implicated iu the crime. and
one OF thep, Allen Ingalls, partially con.
Iessed his completely i'm the horrible trans.
action.
CINCINNATI, o., February 23-At II
O'Clock last night the mystery surrounding
the most atrocious crime ever committed
in this State. that Of the murder Of old man
Taylor, his wife and adopted daughter,
near Avondale, and the burning of the
cabin, and selling OF the bodies to tho medi-
cal college, was solved In the
Avondale Jail. Ingalls, broke down
completely, and when Ben johnson, one of
the men held on suspicion, was taken be-
Tore him, and he was asked IL johnson was
with him In the crime, his reply was.
=" es, he's the man" johnson, who had
heretofore kept bold front, and denied
any completely I'm the deed also gave way.
and, looking up 90 Marshal Brown, re.
marked; you've got me; you've got me"