The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1890-09-25
MURDER!
John Krinn Has a Ter
rible Encounter
With Four Masked Men at His
Home Near Gibinsonville Be-
tween the Hours Of Eleven
and Twelve O'clock,
On Last Tuesday Night Which
Results in His Death.

On Last, Tuesday Night Which
Results in His Death.
NO ClUET0 the MyRDERERS.
The mos; horrible murder that
has ever darkened the fair fame
of Hooking County, except the
celebrated and wholesale mur
der of the Weldon family, which
occurred June % 1877, was com
ml,ted on last Tuesday night,
ten miles south west from Logan
and about mile from Gibinson
vile. John krinn was murder
ed in cold blood III the presence
of his aged wife and their grand
a girl Is years OF age
by four meu who forced an Ell
trance into a room used by the
aged couple as a sitting and bed
room. They had lighted a lamp
and pulled down the window
blinds before any OF the occu
pants Of the room were awaken
ed. Oft Mrs. krinn told her
story to The SENTINEL man as
follows: I'VE retired late and
were soon fast asleep. The first
thing / remember upon being
awakened was, four men IN the
room, who wore masks over
their faces two of whom had
clubs in their hands and all the
men had black hands. don't know
if they wore gloves or not. Pap
(Mr Krinn) asked them what
they wanted. One of The men
hit him with something that look
ed like a club; would not be sure
what it was and ordered him to
lay down. He jumped out OF
bed and made On attempt 10 get
his revolver, which was IN a
bureau dra wer near at hand and
then all four of the men began
10 strike hlm and they had ter
ribIe fight which lasted for some
time, cant tell how long il was
out it seemed An age 10 me; | at
tempted TO help Pap. when one
Of the men struck me and threw
netting in my eyes which al-
most sci me wild with pain for
a while and because l would not
keep quiet they look and throw
I'd the bel ciO:hes over my head
and held me down and ch"ked
me until became unconscious
Tor a while. When [ come 10 my
self again one of lts men was
standing over me and said il |
moved he would kill me. Pap
iav IN the centre of the room;
every once in while | cnnld
hear him moan, but was afraid
to move TO go TO him. One man
was stan ting by my granddaugh
,er, Masgie's bed and l could
hear the other two men upstairs.
| heard them break open one of
the chests and / knew they
would soon find the money that
Pap kept there, which amounted
to forty five dollars in money
AMI a certificate for fifty dollars,
which he had deposited III one
of the Logan banks. They turn
ed every thing up side down and
scattered the contents of the
chests all over the floor; cannot
say how long the men stayed up
stairs, but it seemed a long time
TO me. when they came down
stairs all four of the men went
away together without a word,
could not recognize the msn and
have no idea who they were.
Miss Maggie Walker said; Il
am sixteen years old and live
with my grandparents. The
first intimaiion l had that any
thing was wrong was when
grandpap asked the men what
they wanted in the house. l did
not get fairly awake until grand
pap jumped out of bed and
was frightened almost to death;
did not know what TO do. The
men struck grapdpap several
times on the head, arms an(
back; think he got up tw" oI
three times :.after, he had beer
knocked down; think two OF tht
men had clubs but could not
be sure about 1t. Two of tn,
men were large and two were
small; they had masks on thel
faces and their hands were black
After they had knocked grand
pap down the last time one o
the men threatened to kill MI
if l didn't tell where the money
was kept. i told him and two o
the men went up stairs ant
when they found the chest lock
ed, took an AK and mashed in tn
top of The chest; think they wer'
in the house about one hour