Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-06-18
A STRANGE STORY
OF Attempted Murder and Robbery
by Two Young Girls.

OF Attempted Murder and Robbery
BY TWO Young Girls.
NEW York, June ia Washing
ton special says Details Of the al
most unprecedented attempt at a
double murder by two young girls, the
Oldest only eighteen and second hardly
in her teens, have been received from
Fredericksburg. The victims we're
Mr.. w. =. ). Waller, an old gentleman
sixty-6Ve years Of age and bis sister,
Miss Jane Waller. Mary and Jennie
Green, sisters, were the assailants. A
dispatch says: Mr.. and Miss Waller
reside in stately old mansion on a
farm about twenty-five miles from
Fredericksburg, Va. near the village
of Newmarket. The extsnsiveness Of
the Waller estate made the house
somewhat remote from those Of their
neighbors. Here the couple ihad lived
together for years, managing their
farm and depending solely for assis
tance about the house on the two
Green girls. They had been reared by
the Waller family, a matter which, In
the eyes of Mr.. Waller, was sufficient
to guarantee their honesty. Last Fri
day Mr.. Waller received quite sum Of
money, which he kept in his room and
the girls were aware of this fact They
waited until about II O'clock that
night, when feeling sure taat Mr.. and
Miss Waller were asleep, they quietly
armed themselves with stout clubs and
descended to the old gentleman's
apartment. AS they entered the room
Mr.. Waller awoke and seeing
who it was demanded angrily
what they wanted. Without waiting
to reply, the girls rushed at him.
Though aged, Mr.. Waller was still
quite an active man, and springing
from his bed, he seized the elder and
would have disarmed her had not the
other hit him over the head with her
club and knocked him senseless to the
floor. Not ccntent with this they be-
labored his senseless form with blows
until, believing that life was extinct,
they left him, to search for Miss Wal
Ter. Rushing into the old lady's room
t'ey dragged her screaming from her
bel, and with one savage blow from a
club, laid her senseless. Then they
beat her about the head until the
blood gushed forth in streams,
AID until all vestige of her
features were literally beaten out of
recognition. Finally sati fed that both
of their victims were dead, thegirls
secured about $3.50 in money and fled.
Several hours later a colored boy, one
of the tenants on the farm, while pass
ing the mansion, observed the door was
open and stopped to investigate, On
entering the house he discovered the
senseless and bleeding forms Of Mr..
and Miss Waller on the floor,
and Immediately rushed to give
the alarm, By five o'clock in
the morning the whole ntighbor-
hood was aroused and hundreds of
people flocked to the house to learn the
particulars Of the affair, and to offer
assistance in capturing the asSailants.
With the arrival of the physician Mr..
Waller was restored to consciousness,
and although in a very precarious
condition was able to describe the oc-
currence Of the night. Parties were
instantly organized and the search for
the two girls was undertaken with
ardor, Miss Waller cannot recover.
The Waller family is one Of the most
prominent in the State.