Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-28
HE KILLED -FOUR.
Awful Deed of a Negro Despe-
radO Near Paris, Ky.
Father, Mother and Two Sons
Hacked to Pieces.

Interrupted in His Bloody Work by Two
Charges OS DuckshOt From a Neigh
bOr's Gun-Bofore Dying He Confeases
Having Killed Seven People, and Ex-
| pressed q Desire Co Kill More.
PARIS, July 28.-Bourbon county has
again gone on record with a murder.
the worst yet reported from the COM
monwealth Of Kentucky. About five
miles from this city, on the John Lucas
farm, resideG$ Nathaniel #. Conway,
aged 81 years; his wife, the same age;
his son Charley, aged 80; his SON viii
lam, aged 2S; Williams wife and three
children, and his nieces, Misses Florence
and Lutte Teager, aged 90 and 25.
Story of the Slaughter.
All were seated on the veranda about
0 o'clock Sunday morning enjoying the
beauties of so lovely a morning, when
negro tramp stepped up and asked for d
drink of water. A cup Of ice water was
passed him and ne held M an old rrsty
blade from wheat-cradle and remarked
that sit was nice looking knife for
niSl - carry" Charley smiietii AND
nodded his assent, and the negro threw
the cup down without drinking the
water and struck him blow over the
head, splitting the scalp The family
was taken so by surprise that they ran
into the house, and when the Young man
attempted to ward off the blows which
the negro continued to make he had all
the fingers of his left hand cut of. He
was cut m at least twenty places in all
parts of the body, and win die.
The father, Nathaniel Conway, was
next attacked, his head split open, and
he was killed almost instantly. His body
was terribly mutilated.
Next the negro attacked Mrs. Nathan
iel Conway, splitting her head open
from the back Of her left ear 70 her
mouth, and cutting the laft eye In two.
She was Also cut IN many places about
the arms, breast, head and back, and
died late Sunday evening.
The other women of the house having
fled, the negro attacked William Con-
way, cutting his head and body in ter
rible manner. He attempted TO escape
from the brute, but was followed up,
and just as he entered an old burying-
ground a blow on the shoulder-blAde
downed him.
shot by NetghboE.
Just then G. w. Barlow, who lived
only a few hundred yards away, heard
the screams Of the people being mur-
dered, and, with other men at his house,
went to their assistance, and shot the
negro twice with buckshot, but the
charges seemed to have no effect on him.
One young man with a pistol shot him
in the forehead, but the bullet glanced
and ran around under the skin and did
not crack his skull The negro turned
and ran half-mile after being shot by
Bartlow, and died lying beside hay
stack, where he was left until late Sun
day evening.
II Must Run in the Blood.
The negro, who proved to be John
Craig, before dying said he had killed
seven persons and intended to kill that
whole family. He is known to have
killed his mother-i -in-law in Cynthiana,
and the man whom he was in Jail
charged with killing. He has always
been known as a desperate fellow, and
was brother of Charley Craig, now un-
der sentence of death in the penitentiary
for wife-murder in Cincinnati. The kill
ing caused the widest excitement, and
persons focked from miles around TO SEQ
the bodies and the place of the murder.
The Conways are natives Of Mason
county, but came here eighteen months
ago from Harrison county, where they
resided for eight years on the farm Of
the late Hon. 7. J. Megibben. Mr..
Conway has one other child besides
those mentioned, and she Is Mrs. Bette
Larkin, of Carrollton, KY. They are
quiet, orderly citizens, and held In the
highest regard by their neighbors.
No Wonder Newfoundianders Rave.
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