Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-10
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. A TERRIBLE CRIME. Outrage And Murder Of A
 Young Lady. FRI0HTFuL PERIL OF A BOY. Dragged A Thousand Feet
 In The Air. STRAITS OF 4 UNIVERSITY. The Johns Hopkins Said To Be Nearly Bankrupt.
STRAITS OF A UNIVERSITY.
A TERRIBLE MURDER.

TERRIRLK MURDER.
 nutrage and Robbery Added to the Crtme-The Murderer Escapes-His udantttv Probable-The Community in Arms.
 CAMDEN, N. J., Sept. 9.-A most brutal and horrible murder was committed this morning at LeConey's mill on the old Church road two miles beyond Merchantville. Annie
 Elizabeth Le Coney, the twenty-eight year old niece and housekeeper of Chalkley Le Coney, the miller, had her throat cut from ear to ear by brute who first attempted to outrage her and who after the murder added robbery to his more fendish crime. At an early hour this morning the occupants of the house arose and Annie Le Coney pre- pared breakfast for her uncle and colored farm hand named Garrett Murray. About 6 o'clock they went out in the fields to work. The niece remained alone in the house waiting for another colored farm hand named Frank Lingo to come to breakfast Lingo, who is suspected of the murder, is a man about fifty years of age and resides with his family at Homesteadville, a colored set- clement about two miles from Lo Ooney's mill. He had worked on the farm as day laborer at irregular intervals since last June and was engaged by Le Coney to do some work today. About 2 o'clock girl named Lizzie O'Donnsll ran to where Mr. Le Couey WIS and told him that Annie had been murdered. Le Coney and others hur- ried to the house. The sight that met their gaze in the dining room was most horrible ! oue Lying on her back on the floor be- | tween an old feohioned settee and the stove was Annie Le Coney, her head resting on the settee cushion. which he'd sud ! denly been dragged of onto the floor during l struggle. Her throat wes cut literally \ from ear to ear, and by the side of her head ! was keen edged butcher knife, with sharp point and blade seven inches long, with which the foul crime wes evidently con- | mitted. The knife had evidently been taken from a lot of table and kitchen knives on dresser in one corner of the room. The cushion on which the girls head lay and the carpet wss eaked with blood, and the life fluid had soaked | through the fcor seams and triokled down ir . little pool on the cellar floor. It wes evi' dent that there had been a desperate strug- gle, and that Mics Ls Coney had fought with the murderer. Her clothing was nearly torn of in the struggle. The attempts of the brute to feleniously assault he, and her struggles against this, probably caus. | ed him to take her life. Mr. Le Coney afte1 taking a nasty glance at the bcdy rushed uE
 stai1s to his own room to large wooden chest in which he kept his money. Or opening it he discovered that $78 in gole
 and $1OO in bank note3 had been stolen
 Acroes the hallway ss the bed room
 of Miss Le Coney. On entering il
 MT. Le Coney found the murdered girls trunl
 broken open. Finding no money he concluded
 that the $500 or $500 which his niece possess ed must have been stolen. The murdere
 made his escape, but the whole community
 are up in a-ms and if he is captured, whicl now seems probable, tue law will he-dly b allowed to take its course.