The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-06-09


When I walked again I saw Pa
throw Ma down and cut her with
a knife, and / covered my head
and guess I went asleep. In the
morning walked and saw Ma lay
ing on the floor dead-I knew she
was dead because I called her and
she didn't answer-Pa was laying
by mother and I thought he was
asleep and we got up and went and
told uncle Andy (Bloom)." The
child also maintains that he heard
another voice on the outside of the
house before his Pa came in.
There is evidence that Phillips
was drunk at the time, an empty
pint whisky flask being found on
the table in the room.
The crime was committed by
means of an ordinary pocket knife,
apparently new, with a very sharp
pointed blade about three and one
half inches long. With this or some
similar instrument Mrs p. had re-
ceived a stab in the left breast alb
out two and one half inches below
the nipple and five inches from the
center line of the chest, and a deep
cash had been made in both sides
of the neck severing the jugular
vein and letting out the life blood
in torrents.
Phillips lay beside her on his
left side with his right arm thrown
across the bosom of his dead wife,
he had three incised wounds in the
abdomen, a cut across each wrist,
which severed the artery, and cut
deep into the tendous, while his
throat was cut in the same manner
as was that of Mrs. p.
The knife with it's murderous
blade open and covered with blood,
having a lock of hairs from the
suicides whiskers had been placed
in the nerveless hand of the mur-
dered woman, but'the dead fingers
failed to grasp the haft. The blood
of the murderer and murdered had
darkly stained the floor of the hum
BILE cabin and streaming through
the open cracks, had clothed on the
earth beneath. Some time must
have elapsed after Mrs. P. was
murdered before the suicide of the
murderer as her blood already dried
and dark upon the board floor was
covered by the fresh red of that of
his, and during the interval it is
thought the murderer wrote the
following rambling note which was
picked up on the floor of cabin,
have done everything could do
tomake home hapy & it was hapy
until bloom MKT in amos kline isa
square man i think ask him hoo
sen him to come to trile that day
hoo told all the rest of the relation
bloom andy bloom & his wife are
the ones that is a fetching trouble
in our country g. neighborhood
blest are the peacemaker amen.
read this in my book this u task
for me my burden isto heavy cant
bear it sorrow q trouble will kill
me gentlemen iwohd state the case
in but i cant my throbing is to
heavy so will quit / have said q
nough amen amen. James Phillips
Done al this riting amen.
this paper will drop on the floor
& you will find it read what is in
this book look in my book e. read il
do as you think best.
The Andrew Bloom referred Ia
in the note is one of our best known
citizens. A man than whom, there is
none more kind, quiet and inoffen-
sive, and his only act that could
incense the demon heart of JAS
Phillips, was the granting the pro-
lection of his home to the poor re.
lative who with her innocent Chi
dren were fleeing in terror from
this devil in human guise. God pity
and protect the motherless orphans
whose only inheritance from their
father is name covered with in
fanny. H. as
The neighors objected to- having
Phillips buried in the family bury
ing place, and after some trouble
his brother procured a lot in the
Logan Cemetery in which he was
inferred on Saturday about dark.
Mrs Phillips was buried in the
U. B.. burying ground near the
scene of her tragic death on Sun
day afternoon, and on Monday
evening the log cabin in which the
dark deed was committed was torn
down and burned to ashes. So ends
this latest and darkest chapter in
Hocking's history.
Monday.