Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1894-02-17
STONE STRANGLED p!
The Murderer Ct The Wratten
Family Executed Last Night.
History Of One Of the Bloody
crime.
second Day's Session Of National
Woman Suffrage As ociatIon
JUHlLkk FkAsr AT HOMk.

JUBlLkk PkAsr AT KoMk
Jrfrrsnuylllr. Ind. Fob H. "Bui"
Stone. the murNlcrrr of the Mrai,cu family
IA DAVIS county lac, september.
hung IN th" p"nitrutiary hcrr sometime
bet ytrn midnight last night nnd "a
"'clurk thls morning This war ia" hrst
hanging IN an ludinua state prison since,
the passage uf the law requiring rNrcu-
nunS tu tnkr place IA the Irnit"utiarlrr
TIL" law requires that executions shall
tax" place h"f,r. siN u'cl-.k ~ the morn
lug Stnu" has hdduu farewell tu hs
family, and all the arrangements for tue
rArcu,i"n have been completed. 1t hal
been arranged I" have his huly buried IN
the graveyard near hi- home whrrr ia"
remains uf his vIrtimr are Inferred. lut
Tia. trustees II the church whirh stands
IN the midst of the hurry ing ground have
declared that ia" p.ac" II "a" sacred iut
such crin" stained mans h"ly to b"
laid there. and ia" body viii probably hr
turned over tu Sntn" medical students iu
experiment uI"u. while on ia" whul"
the murderer maintained II bold trout
since hIS convection. yet at times h" has
completely broken down, falling on hts
knrrr and weeping bitterly. HIS meet.
iugs with his family have been attended
with pathetic '"nes, the prisoner pru--
,rating himself uu the lo"r. hugEius aud
kissing his childr'n. and hrggiuR thrin
To mcc, him IN heaven.
HISTORY ~ rnE CRIME
Wa nshiugtun. Ind Fell. 10 |, WAS uu
September 18th uf last year that the al
mails nf crime uf Davis county wrr" added
to- 10y the murder II thr family of benson
Wratirn. near Glendale, one uf Tia" small
r,t towns IN ia" county tn" scene "i
the Grim" was log huus" two miles west
"i ia" town on the lluls"uvlllr ROAD, The
Grim" was committed about thr"" O'clock.
|, was not discovered until several huuIr
later when nrighhur, James Stuu',
went tu the hum" ui Wrattau tu see how
he was getting along, ~ Ia" had l"''u
down with tyrhnid fever for tw" w""ks.
when h- entered the house hr wns hurr..
tied to Sre i've h"lirs y ing III literal I""l-
nf blSd. without waiting I" luv"rtgat"
hc hurried back Ia thir city and gave th"
alarm A number of citizens arcunpau.
ird him back to the wIA'trn humrst"nI
lh" house was story and II half l"s
structure, com Insed uf three runlns and
IHrrh IN the suuth end, Ia ia" r-,m tu
the east Mrs Elizabeth Wratt"n. ~ years
odd AMI the mother of benson Wrntt"u.
was found upon the floor. Her face and
head were 80 mutilat.d with gashrs that
sh" could hardly bc recognized Her
right hand WAS severed from the arm,
broken in several places, showing that
-h" had experienced n furious encounter
with the assassin. The bureau M the
rsm hal been ransark"d, the drawers
were pulled out. the con,rnts scattered
over the r'pm ani everything ~ dl-nr-
der. la the next rvnm benson Wntt"u
WAS found. His corpse was lying across
the bed. There were thr'" deep gashr-
in ia. head aud face. and poolS If bl~.l
on the bed and nj the sale uf il. Thl,r
blows hal cnlcd his life. and hr had ,'vl.
IDENTIFY died withnu, n s,ruggr. Th"
neA, r,om was the kitchen. and across
the dnor step leading to the porch waH
the body 81 Ada wrattrn. nrnson's wifi,
There were several wounds about her
head and b0iy. From the Ios,iion IN
which the corpse was found It seemed
that she had been awakened by the nois"
In the old lniy's room and hal started in
give the alarm when she was struck
down, A few feet away was the huly ni
her three. y.ar-old babe, II hal been
taken fium the b"d, struck twice with
n hatchet causing deep gash.s Sl"vr
each eye and then thrown to the hr,r
Near by was little Stella wrat,.n, nine
years old. with deep cut across the fore.
head Appearances Indicated that rhr
mus, have struggled with the assassin ar
the blu-l WAS Epiashei over the hurrau
aud the b.1i close by. A little further 4"
the southwest In the corner of the rr,m
war the SIXTH member II ia. family, n
daughter eleven years old she waS still
alive. Ia the middle II her forehead war
deep lnden,atinu, ApIarrntly made by
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