The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-15

after Saturday morning the bread IN
fhe kitchen continued TO rise, and half OF
a cooked ham lay near, evidently prepare
tions for Sunday. From these facts the
conclusion is drawn that the urst attack
was made upon the kitchen Saturday morn
ing. and that all hands ran 30 the other
Acuse and boIted Go doora That Miss
Bfucs shot as the lEan entered the wezdoW
III circumstantisl Cgfdence Of two things
,irst. the running IRON she kitchen; and
s--nad. o love eSoSsede IN which q Tilted
lover sought VgnRoanoo That she became
% warllke in shooting tins pistol and grab
hing the gun tells Of a forewarnipg that
caused forearming The negro, jenkins,
has been arrested aud jailed, but few
belieye that he has any part ia the crime
AIR Packwood says that be has his sus-
nicious which will be revealed at the right
time and place This confirms the theory
of the rejected suitor TO degree.
Phe murderer must nave been wen known
IN the nelghborhood as he killed th9 child
rem. evidently fearing that they would tell.
Tbs Daonle of New Smyrna all say that
tbe man is of that neighborhoOd, there being
many little things which clinch that suspi~
cion. The blood was "dippered" from the
house. It was then scooped up In masses
aud thrown out; then the remainder was
sopped up with cloths and the spots were
ecrubbed aud strewn With flour, but even
This ala not hide the evidence OF the bloody
crime
Peckwood has a small orange grove aud
d a fancier of bees. he was once in com~
Portable circumstances, but his pocket has
been depleted by many misfortunes. be
had been resident on this site for fourteen
wears, coming here from New York CITY.
He viii never live at the house again. He
was on the train at Orlando Saturday after
noon when the shocking little yellow missive
reached him. Mrs. Hatch was the wife OF
l. d HATCH a carpenter. He came from
Maine, and has been living Ave miles below
Smyrna for fifteen years.
NOT DONE BY rRAMPs.
A New Smyrna special to the Times
linton tonight says: "The conviction is
growing here that the murders at the Pack
wood house were committed by somebody
belonging TO this ueighborhood, or at least
Familiar with the premises and sur.
4heir day clothes on. which shows
that the crime was committed In the day
time, for the household had evidently spent
Friday night anmolested. The bed had
been slept In and Stops were still standing
in the chamber jars. The batch Of yeast
dough on the foor behind the stove con-
einued TO rise I'LL 8 O'Clock IN the afternoon.
and in q pot ON the stove was a ham half
boiled in water, showing chat the fire must
have gone out, leaving IL 50 It was 8
O'Clock when the negro discovered ths
broken window. 1t was 1870 O'Clock when
the neighbors first entered the housa
THE BODIES STILL WARM.
zone. Of the women who washed the
bodies about ppors says thai the backs Of
Mics Bruce and Mrs. Hatch were still per-
oepMhly warm for the bodies had lain on
their backs uudistRrbed Tho theory Is
shat the murders were committed Just after
breakfast Saturday morning about $50 or
2 o'clock. "a Mr.. Pacdwood still refuses to
state whom he suspects and none of che
neighbors appear 70 have had any knowi-
edge Of Miss Bfuce's love affair, II she had
one. and nobody, % far as known, is miss
ing frofI tpe neignoerneod; the eoroners
row.
1.-The funeral Of the victims TOOK place
from d. L. Hatch's house this morning.
Nobody here IN New Smyrna knows what
part OF Maine Mr.. Hatch and bis dead wife
earna ffotf n