The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-16
MURDER and ROBBERY.
AN AGED COUPLE CLUBBED TO
DEATH BY
Two Young Girls Whom They Had
Raised-An Almost Unprece-
dented Crime.

NEW YORK, June 10. "A Washing
ton special says: Details of an al
most unprecedented attempt at a
double murder by two youug girls,
the Oldest eighteen and the second
hardly in her teers, have been re-
ived from Fredericksburg The
victims we're Mr.. W. E. s. Waller, sn
old gentleman sixty-6ve Yeas OF age,
and lis sister, Miss Jane Waller. Mary
and Jennie Green, sisters, were the
sssailants. A dispatch siys that Mr..
aud Miss Waller res ded in a stately
old manson on farm situated about
twenty-five miles from Fredericks-
burg, near the little village OF New
market. The extens yeuess OF the
Wsller estate made the house some
what remote from these OF the NJ igh-
boTs. Here the couple had lived TO-
gether for years, managing their farm
and depending solely for sssistan
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 wss sufficient TO
guarantee their honesty. Las Friday
Mr.. Waller received quite q sum OF
money, which he kept in bis roou,
arc the girls were aware of this fact.
They waited until about IL O'Clock
that night, when, feeling sure that
Mr.. aud Miss Wa Ter were asleep,
they quietly armed lhems Ives with
stout clubs and descended to the old
gentlemsn's apartment AS they en-
tered the loom Mr.. Waller awoke,
aud, seeing who it was, demaude d
angrily wha, they wanted. Wihout
waiting to reply
THE GIRLS RUSHED AT HIM.
Though aged, Mr.. Walker was ttill
quite an active man, and springing
from his bad, 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 content with tn s, they be-
labored his sens eless form with blows
until, believing that life was extinct,
they left him to search for Miss
Waller. Rushing into the old lady's
room, they dragged her sore ming
+ ON the bed and with one savage
blow I ON a club laid her senseless,
and then they beat her about the head
until the blo-d guthed forth in
streams aud until all vtstige Ct her
features were beaten out OF recogni-
ton. Finally, satisfied that both the
victims were dead, the girls scu ed
about 1850 in money az fsd. Several
hours later colcred boy. enc Of the
tenants on the farm. HE passing the
mansion observed that the Coor was
open and stopped to investigate. On
entering the house he discovered the
sENsRLEss AND BLEEDING FORMS
of Mr.. aud Miss Waller on the floor,
and Immediately rushed to give tte
alarm. By 8 o'clock in the morning
the whole neighboThood was arou ed,
and hundreds Of people flockt d TO the
house to learn the PARTICULARS OF the
affair and to offer their assis anCe in
the assailauis. With the
arrival of the pbysicisn Mr.. Waller
was restored to nsciousne. snd
though in very precarious condition
was able to desciibe the occurrence OF
the night. Par It's were instantly or.
G snizej, and the search FIR the two
g 'rls was undertaken with ardor. Miss
Waller cannot recover. The Waller
family is one of the most p. omiI ent
in the Safe.