Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-07-13

originally i,een intended to burn him to
death, and the corpse was roasted and
charfed out of emblance to human form.
THE HORRIBLE DOUBLE MURDER.
The negro's crime was one OF the most
horrible ever chronicled in this section OF
the State. Day before yesterday, Mary
Kay, aged ID years, and her little sister.
aged 10 years, left the Ray house, which is
about three miles from Bardwell, to pick
biackberries in a patch less thun 200 yards
from the house.
The mother needed the elder daughter
for some purpose, and sent her son to look
Tor his sisters. Imagine his horror when
he found the body Of his younger sister,
with her throat cut and her dress torn and
covered with blood.
Neighbors were called on for assistance.
and after few minutes search they
found the elder daughter in thicket,
With her throat also cut and her dress torn.
The murderer had assaulted the elder girl
before killing her, his motive being to
prevent the young woman from identify
ing him as the perpetrator OF the first
crime. The assassin mutilated Miss Ray
after the manner of Jack the Ripper
the Whitechapol murderer. 1t is supposed
that the little girl came upon the scene ut
the time that the assassin was engaged in
the work of slashing his victim.
BLOODHOUND ON THE TRAIL.
The only clue to the murderer was q
dirty blue coat found near the spot. After
starting on several false scents, blood.
hound was obtained and placed on the
trail of the murderer yesterday. He
quickly took the scent and held it until he
reached the Mississippi river opposite
Birds Point, Mo, Here he jumped into a
boat and could not be removed. The
owner being questioned, stated that the
night before, negro had hailed him and
| hired him to carry him across the river.
The description of the negro answered
| to that of suspicious character seen
around Bardwell the day before the muir.
der, and pursuers crossed into Missouri
and again took up the trail Here how.
| ever, they received a telegram from Sykes
| ton, Mo-, that the negro had been arrested
| The supposed murderer reached Birds
Point, boarded freight train on the Iron
| Mountain road, hid in box-car, and wa:
discovered by the conductor, who wiret
Sykeston authorities that suspicious mar
was ON his train.
The fellow was arrested at Sykeston, blu
not until he had knocked the policeman
down three times and the conductor once
His clothes were muddy and the from
part of his clothing had been tori
away. He had in his possession u blood,
razor and six ladies' rings.
The negro gave his name as Charlie
Miller. He said he had not been In Ken
lucky, but the coat left at the scene OF tn
tragedy fitted him; also the rings wer
identified as the property of ]. NJ. Porter
stolen from him at Clinton, KY, Sunda
night. The fisherman who carried hir
across the river said he was the identica
man.
THIS MAN ADMITS THE MURDER.
CAIRO, ILL, July 11.--News was re
ceived here last night that colore
man had been arrested at Milan, Tenn
who is found to have been an accom-
plice of Miller, who was lynched a
Bardwell, KY, last Friday.
The man arrested is said 10 have bee
not only partner in the crime, but
the one that actually committed tn
, murder OF the Ray sisters The sheri
of Bardwell, KY, has been notified, an
if he proves to be the man 1t is elaine
another lynching is in prospect.
A passenger conductor on the 1llinoi
Central railroad, who brings the new
. of the arrest, says the man fought de-
J perately, but when finally overpowere
: admitted that he murdered the girls, an
D that Miller knew it and refused to d
t vulge it.