Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-11-30
FoULLY aUkDEEED.
A woman's Head Caved In and q Rope
Twisted About Her Neck-Chasing the
Elurdarar

A woman's Head Caved In and Rope
Twisted About Her Neck-Chasing the
Murderer.
New YORK, November 29.-A woman
has been murdered ID Atlantic High
lands and armed men.are searching the
surrounding country Tor the murderer.
Near the outskirts OF the village, up
on small farm, live Charles I. Leon
and, his wife and three children. The
husband, besides cuItiHating the farm,
occasionally works foi his neighborS.
Yesterday farmer liyIbg some distance
away sent for Leonard 10 hep him Kill
some hogs. Leonard fft early in the
morning. When he returned late in
the afternoon he folnd his children
crying near the house
"We can't 6nd mtna anywhere" }"
they said when they sss him.
Mr. Leonard thought BIT first that his
wife had gone out to csl upon neigh
Dor. When he asked Is children how
long the mother had ben gone all they
could ay was:
Mamma went out long time ago
and we waited and yaited, but she
didn't come back"
Then Leonard Sc; rh d the house.
The dinner dishes .wessk pom the -tshle.
the FIRE was out ard ue water In the
kettles upon the stove was cold.
Leonard grew alarmed and began to
search the premises.
At last he found h,r horribly nutl-
lated body some diSaBce from the
house. A small rope vas fastened In a
tight moose around Ter neck. The
cord bad sunk deep lto the fesI and
the flesh was discolopd and distoted.
One side of the wonan's head was
crushed In. The murderer had evilent-
ly struck her upon tbs head, and Then
fearing that she mighi still live, gent
to the clothes line, cutoff few yTcs,
formed slip moose and drew IT lght
about her neck.
When the husband realized thSf his
wife had been murdered he hurri'd 10
the nearest neighbor and gave The
alarm. A crowd Of farmers anc vii
layers rushed to the scene.
Some laboring men who were yorg-
ing in the neighborhoOa Of the Lenaro
farm remembered that they had s4en
farm-hand named Lous Harriet ID the
afternoon not far fr>m the LeoIard :
house. He had blood ipon his cfheS
and hands, they sale. Many o. the
neighbors are killing hogs at this sea-
son and it /, not an uncommon si;ht to
SEQ farmer with Hood upo, his
clothes. So the men said noth1g TO
Harriet, who was walking rap!dF up
the road.
AS soon as the villagers heard this
story they decided that the blood upon
HarIiot's clothes and lands was t1nan
blood. They went to the place Fbere
he had been working, but be w's not
there, and the people inew nothie OF
his whereabouts.
The railroad station was warhed,
kilograms were sent OFT with deerip-
tlon of Harriet and ho.semeD wertsent
out over the country r,ads in all nrec-
tions. But Up to midnight Harras has
not been found.
Little is known about Harriet At
lantic Highlands II, is natF OF
Lorraine, and short time ago N'at to
work on q farm in tie village. e Is
described as about twenty year Old,
six feet high, dark, with grey ey'i
The murdered woman was Thru hVe
years old. II is not believed IL shr
had any enemies amoig the viIfers,
aud the general belief IS that the nur'
derer asSaplted her! and heg biug
frightened at her resistance kill'1her.
Coroner Piston will nolo al quest
to-day.