The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-12-17
"a REJECT RID Low E,R.
9ihe Perpetrators Of the florida Trag-
edy Are Being Tracked With
#. Bloodhounds. 5 sss8
The Bomb Thrower Fully Identified
by the Records Of a Boston # 5s 5
Dentist.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. 15.-Detalls of
the tragedy near New Symrna are coming
in slowly. Geographic communication not
having been established until this morn
ing. Mr.. Packwood let home on Friday
morning for Maitland, to be gone two days.
Mrs. L. D. Hatch. a neighbor and dear
friend Of Miss Bruce came to spend the day
and night with her during Mr.. Packwood's
absence. Mr.. l.. u. Hatch is carpenter
and orange grower and has lived near New
SMYRNA for the past fifteen years. Both
he and his wife came nom Maine. Miss
Angelina Hamilton Bruce was daughter
Of Hamilton Bruce of New, ork city
Irwin jenkins was the first to discoverthe
crime. He lis a negro, who called at Pack
woods house every Saturday to do errands
and light jobs At IS o'clock in the morn
ing he knocked at the door and got no an
swer. He saw a window smashed in and
then called the neighbors, who made an
investigation and notified the sheriff and
coroner. No positive clue as to the MUIR
derer has yet been found: Mr.. Packwood
has suspicious OF somebody, but refuses to
disclose them till the proper time arrives.
There are runors of discarded lover, who
had sworn vengeance, and thatrobbery was
not the object of the murder, but that it
was rape. q,
The murder of Mrs. Hatch and the two
children was undoubtedly to destroy evl.
dences of the assault upon and killing of
Miss Bruce. The revolver and shot gun
were the. property OF Mr., Packwood, and
either Miss Bruce or Mrs Hatch had I'M
doubtedly used them in l.-de!e11se. The
negro Jenkins has been arrested but no.
body believes that he knows anything of
the crime. Two hundred men, with blood
hounds, on horseback and aioOt, are scour-
Ing the country. .-"
TERRIBLE SIGHT. E"5
One Of the first men to reach the scene
after the alarm had been given, thus tells
the story OF the crime: ~
When we reached the house we all crowded
around the broken window aud peered in. Be
fore our eyes was all appalling spectacle. On
her back by the window i'll q pool of blood lay
Mrs. Hatch, with pistol ball wound on the in
ened with powder. The other bodies lay near
her. When the crash came she had evidently
been near the window. When the murderer Ell;
| tered, her little son. frenzed with fright had
| probably fed, as child would, and had sought
refuge in the bed clothes Of a bed lounge at the
! other end OF her room. He was torn from there,
! shot over the left eye and his throat cut in
three places, His head was almost severed from
the body. The bed clothes were stained GRIM
While the murderer was entering the window,
| Miss Bruce had apparently secured an old
Smith & Wesson pistol which was handy and
fired at him. The ball took effect in the window
frame. The murderer, needless of this on
slaught. continued his terrible work. BY this
| time Miss Bruce had gone to the closet and
/ secured a double barreled shot gun. She leveed
| it at the murderer as he approached, but both
| hammers snapped on shells that had been ex-
| ploded many days before. He overpo Nered
| her and accomplished his devllish purpose prob
ably after killing her little nephew. After this
part of the tragedy the murderer shot her
| through the cheek, the bali crashing through
| her teeth, striking the wall and falling on the
bed. There must have been another struggle
for the possession of the gun. He tore it from
her grasp and, swinging it around his head with
i both hands, drove the stock against
her face with terrible force. The bow struck
| her between the forehead and nose and crushed
in her skull. Every bone in her face was broken
Then with a keen bread knife he stabbed her il
| the neck, cutting OUT square section OF hesf
and finishing with two terrible gashes on hel
| throat.
/ Frank Packwood, a beautiful little golden
haired child of five years, was found on til,
i floor at the foot of the BED with his throat cut
The floors OF both rooms were completely GOV
cred with blood, and the mattress on the bet
Oh which Miss Bruce lay was sOegy with gore
On the curtains and walls blood WAS spatteret
thickly. When the neighbors later on began tt
clear up the premises the blood had to he car
ried from the room in dippers. 1t was thel
scooped up in masses and thrown out. The re
mainder was sopped up with cloths and tn
| spots were scrubbed and streWn with flour. Blu
even this did not hide the evidence Of the blood,