The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-11-16
ATROOIOUS
Crime Committed in
Lexington Township.
A Young and Beautiful Girl
Murdered
And Her Dead Body Carried to
the Barn
Where the British Murderer
Repeatedly Ravishes 1t.
The Fiend is Found at a Farm
Some Distance Away

with HIS Throat Cut-Birdie Bsusa the
vfOtim and Curtis Davison the Murderer
The Brute Wtli Probably Livs TO DO
Hanged.
Ia the enc ala OF crime in Stark county
there has never been a. moro atrocicus
nor ore more rsvolting ia details.
than taas committed attbe pleasant sarm
Residence OF g. C. BauEh. mile and
hBtf from tbe aGsinsss portion ot Al
lance. but only e short distance from the
city IiunitF. In Is Kinzion tow 2ship.
A few days ago C. C. Baugh aud wife
went 70 PsnusyivAnla to viOis friends al
Buner Station. Dawson aud MrKeesport.
Thty left at home Mrs.. Bsugh's brother
Thomas S.rawn. aged a. years. aud two
soon, Norman 5SGRh seed IA years aud
GsresId Bsuab. ogsd 10 yoacs.
To look After tho house And be a nothsr
to The boys during 'dsir psrents' absence,
they left their daughter. Birdie BSugh, q
handsome youoR womsn aged 81 yaMs,
the pride aud joy OK chs devoted and low
ing parents. Besides these wac farm
hand. . morose, close mouthed, Guiky,
roCgh looking aud repuisive fellow. Cur
tia Dawson, aged 45 years.
Ou MondaY Oieht the FARM hand vas
no. at home until tate and on Tuesday
sIsh. he left soon after supper. Al 0
O'clock the uncle, Thomas Strnwu, and .he
two boys aud Miss Birdie, were seAtsd in
the sitting room about thc Are. They
talked OF various subj iscts' aud tie coz
versAtion finally turned 20 discussion of
tue hirrd man. DAWSON. During she
course of the talk Birdie said that sac
wished her father would get ahut OF
him." abe desiring his dischsr rye tron the
place, having never liked hin sad seldom
speaking to him Mt Ai.
Az about 0 20 o'clock. EorGc al, WHO had
heon over at Neighbor Jodn Conrad'S
1 during the evsniag, Ssid saAs no thought
] il was about time TO retire. He then wen
| 70 bod, followed by his 5rother Garfield
| Mr. Stra En waited sor a few minutes anc
l also won't up stAirs 20 b -, leaving Birdie
1 sitting by shc nre.
Yst with all this assistance almost iCn'
i unediAteIy at hand Birdie 8A1gh ms
death In most horrible manner. Sua
how The revolving crime was committee
can easily be deducted Frona shs condItioc
Of thtugs ne ut uiorniag.
To News DEsooRST reporter VIII
visited tho scene shis mornisl
In company with Coroner Cookitn au'
Marshal McBsriand Of Aiiianos. Mr
Strawu Told
Tim sroeV oE CaK ORLMl,
he yss the frst to arise in the noen
Jog and went down s.airs 'aHd poked VI
the Ore in the sitting roo@. Hans OF sh
others were yet astir. and he called Nor
man. who sooa came down stairs. IL
then called the daughte of the household
Birdie. but received no answer. Again h
called. but no answer came, and NormaI
| vent To her room to awake her. She wa
not In the room and her bed bad not bee
disturbed during the might. Norman rs
ported this coeaition OF hfr airs to his uucl
and also reported that the blred mnn
Dawson, had not been ia his bed durin
the night.
The suspicions Of the uncle we're arouse
at this and he started 70 dnd Birdie. II
tried the door leading from the sit
ting room to the kitchen, bat Il We
securely locked on the insids. He the
I sent Norman around outside TO see IL b
could get into the kitchen from the on
side door.
The boy obeyed and found that the doc
opened easily. He stepped inside but RI
coiled with horrifled cry. The morniu
light coming iu at one Of. the wiudoV
ahone upon the floor and the bC
saw mis- own fass reflected
Ia large pool OF blood near ii
door. The youth knew that som terTib
thing had happened bat was unable
L grasp the full silua hon. he ran hack I
his uncle and told him OF tue diseoVe
he had made The uucle Immediate
connected the absence Of Bkdie with u
circumstance of the blood on the kitch'
floor aud without further ado kicked opt
the door leading TO the kitchen and e
tered. There was every evidence that
: lerime had been committed
the body OF the victim was not TO
asen Ia the kitchen. The furniture "
moved about somewhat, the table push
back from its accustomed place and 4
La ,or at ons end OF tbs room was literal
swimninR 10 blood. "A poker that W
bent In places where il had, come in vi
lent contact with some hard substan
was lying near the pool Of blood. The
was blood on the poker, showing that
I. had figured ia tho crime to some extei
' ~ least. There was also blood on 4
lamp, which the girl had left bnsnins I
tho table.
Ia the meantime Norman had hasten
: O the residence Of Judd Wood. neia
Dor, and notified him that something Il
rIble had happened. Hs accomp ami
the boy 70 the b lugh residence ut once
rRALL og BLOOD.
Wood noticed ns he entered the kltoh
through tbe outside s0,r. that ths
was blood on the porch. He a
noticed some spots of blood u Z
feet from she porch, and atilI other sp'
a little festher distanN leading towAi
"A .na harm. AU0Vu cvorN aIiuIo NnliIto