Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-12-14
THE LODGE MURDER
Not a Clue to the Assassins of
 It's Residents.
THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN TRAMPs
Miss Bruos Was a Former Resident of
 New York and We'll Known.

She, Mrs. Hatch and Her Son, and Little Frank Packwood All Butchered in a
 Horrible Manner-No Trace of Frank Packwood, the Owner of the Resort Robbery the Motive for tue Crime Story of Packwood's Nephew.
 JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. 14-The brutal murders of Miss A B. Bruce, of New York, Mrs. l.. D. Hatch and her son, and little Frank Redwood at their winter home, six miles south of New Smyrna, have thoroughly aroused the people of Volusia county. A posse is now securing the country, and if the murderers are captured they may be lynched, There is as yet no clue to them, but they are supposed to be tramps who were seen near the place.
 Fuller details of the tragedy show that the murders were committed at "The Lodge" as Frank Redwood, ST. {, called the place MT. Redwood is missing. The murderers entered the house through a window, the sash and glass being smashed in.
 The first person to visit the premises found the body of Mrs. L. D. Hatch in a corner on the floor of the main room. She had been shot through the left eye In the same room, lying on the bed, was the body of her six-year-old son,
 
 cut from ear to ear.
 On the floor of the adjoining room lay the body of Frank Redwood, four year 8 old, shot through the head and with hi s throat cut. The body of Miss A. H |. Bruce lay on a bed in the same roo n. She had been assaulted, and her skull and face had been smashed by some heavy weapon. She had also been shot through the head, and her throat had been cut.
 Near the broken window 8 large re- volver was found with two empty chambers. On the bed beside the body of Miss Bruce lay 8 doubled d-barrelled shotgun with the stock broken into splinters Near the body of the Hatch boy long-bladed butcher-knife was found.
 Frank Redwood, ST., opened ''The Lodge" every winter and it was popu- lar resort for hunters and fishermen. Redwood has an extensive acquaint- ance all over the country. Some years ago he married one of Miss Bruce's sis ters in New York. When she died Miss Bruce volunteered to live at Redwood 's house and bring up his infant child.
 A few days ago 8 party of Western people started southward from Jack. sonville, among whom were the Pack woods, father and son, Miss Bruce and Mrs. Hatch and son, they having just returned from trip North.
 Robbery was undoubtedly the pur. pose of the murderers, but the extent of their plunder is as yet unknown.
 So far in the dispatches from New Smyrna no mention is made of F. J. Redwood as having been in the house at the time of the tragedy or as appear ing on the scene.
 There is a rumor that he was killed also, and his body concealed so as to throw suspicion on him as the mur- derer of the others He has 8 nephew in this city (Jacksonville) who gives the following information:
 "All the Redwood family came originally from New Orleans. There are several brothers in this State. Franks wife was Miss Bruce, of New York city. and she died when their boy Frankie was year old.
 Immediately after his mothers death. his aunt, Miss A. H. Bruce, o1 New York city, came to Florida to take charge of him, and has since made her home with the child and his father at the orange grove on the Hillsboro River.
 "Who Mrs. l.. D. Hatch Is, have no idea. I never heard the name before. Probably relatives or friends of Miss Bruce and visitors in the Pack wood home.
 ''The brother of Miss Bruce was at one time a prominent broker in Wall street, New York, and it is said that not long before the marriage of Mr. Redwood with his other sister he ia fled, the property of his sister being all lost in the smash up. Miss A. Bruce, the murdered woman, was about 35 years of age'