Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-06-22
HORRIBLE!. !.
A Fathers Attempt to
ChaStiSe his Son
Results
|IM pATRIGInE 7
IN PATRIClD E!
Nanny" Long StabS bis Father,
Miller r. Long, with q
Penknife,
Just Below the Heart-Death Results
Several Days Later.

4 The report Saturday evening that Eman-
uel Long, familiarly known as NANNY"
had killed his father, caused Napoleon to
wax into a fever heat Of excitement.
l Saturday afternoon DR.. Harrison was
Summoned to the Henry Norden farm. about
two and one-half miles southwest of Mcclure
ia Damascus township, to operate upon
Miller f. Long, tenant.
he found the patient with a small knife
wonpd between the seventh and eighth ribs
and diagnosis of the case revealed con-
siderable matter-clotted blood, puss, ETC.
collected in the left lung. The doctor arriv-
ed at the conclusion that such matter must
be removed and even then the patient had
but one chance in hundred for life. To
remove the same the wound must be cut
larger to admit of the tubes and in doing
this, Mr.. Longs agony was terrible. Still
to omit the operation was sure death. Fully
two quarts of very foul smelling matter was
extracted.
From the frst DR.. Harrison expressed no
hope of his recovery, hence, when death
occurred Saturday night, it was not unex-
pected.
The Crime.
An investigation of the cause of Mr..
Long 'sdeath elected the following facts:
Last Wednesday afternoon NANNY and
his two sisters had been quarreling over a
trifling matter when the father attempted to
chastise the SON. At the time the latter was
out in the yard whiting with long bladed
pocket knife. Shortly after the father went
out to where" NANNY" was, Mrs. Long states
that her husband staggered into the house
and fell on the floor. bleeding profusely from
wound in the left side. In response to her
inquiries heanswered not, having loat con-
seriousness as soon as he entered the house.
DR.. Sharpe, of Mcclure. was at once sent
for but was away from home. The services
of Grelton,s physician, DR.. Burson, were
called into requlsition who arrived the same
day and pursued the customary treatment.
The patient continued to grow worse, how.
ever, and on Saturday DR.. Burson sum-
moned DR.. Harrison with the result as above
stated.
The Sons Story.
No one save father and son was witness
to tho crime, and Squire Weaks, living on
the adjacent farm north, says that he was
the first one summoned and that it was i'm
possible to secure any light on the subject |
from Mr.. Long; that in response to all in
quiries he said: 81 don't know how 1 was
hurt, we were both very angry"
Then, with Mr.. Longs death. all informa-
ton is cut of save that given by the son
himself.
He claims that the stabbing was wholly
accidental. 1t seems he had been whiting
when his father attacked him with good
sized stick and beat him severely. Being of
q very bad temper NANNY clinched his
father with the kuife still in his hand and
opened.
In the scufie that ensued the knife en-
tered his fathers side, who at once loosened
hold and staggered towards the house.
Beyond this brief story nothing more is
positively known.
Funeral and Arrest.
Monday afternoon the funeral of the
dead man was held at Mcclure and the re-
mains inferred in the Cole cemetery, Flat
rock township. 1t was very largely attend
ed, the deceased being widely known. Rev.
Shelter had charge of the ceremony.
Shortly after the burial Emanuel was ar
rested by the sheriff on warrant sworn |
out by the prosecuting attorney before
Squire Prints, charging him with mali
ciously killing his father, Miller Long. He |
was brought to Napoleon and placed in
Jail.
Monday evening he was arraigned before
Squire Prints and plead not guilty to the
charge. The preliminary hearing was |
postponed until Thursday morning at 10I
o'clock, attorneys not being ready on either |
side.
He IS Young.
1t is safe to say that the mothers state
meut that the boy is only 10 years, is true.
He is small and delicate for even that age.
and withal ia good looking. With dark |
hair and very dark complexion, he betokens |
a hasty temper, yet his general demeanor
suggests kind heart and lovable disp osi- |
tion. In fact, he is nothing bat a mere
boy, subject to the trials and vicissitudes Of
farm life, which, combined with domestic
infelicity, did not ten d to make any of his
prior life a happy one, and this most heart
rending affair of which he is the central fig
ure, will slowly crush out his life in years to
come when realization Of the tragedy is
within his grasp. Whether or not law vim
dicates him and labels the act one of acci-
dent, "Manny's" many friends dread his
future.
Public Sentiment,
Public sentiment is mostly in favor of the