The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-11-06
KILLED BY FIENDS.
Murder of Two Little
Children
WITH BRUTAL ATROCITY.
No Pity Shown for Their Youth
or Innocence.
DECOYED FROM THEIR HOME.
Their Hands Were Tied Together and
an Attempt Made to Burn
Their Bodies.

PAULDING. Ohio. Nov. "a most ap-
palling murder was discovered here this
morning. Two children of Samuel Good.
living three miles north of town, were
found in a brush pile, murdered, and an
attempt had been made to burn the bodies.
The girl, aged years. was decapitated and
disem DO weled, and the boys throat was
cut from ear to ear and his head nearly
severed from his body. The boy was
years old.
The children left home at 10 A. NJ. yes
terday. AS they did not come home again,
at P. NJ a searching party was organized
and searched all night, AID at O'Clock
this morning the bodies were found. They
presented a most horrible spectacle. The
news of the affair spread rapidly, and soon
hundreds of people were on the scene.
Sheriff Staley was among the number, and
arrested Charley Hart. q neighbours boy.
who was at once suspected, and the people
of the neighborhood are firm in the con-
viction OF his guilt.
Young Hart says he cannot read nor
write, and does not know his age, and he
is very nervous. When accused of the
crime he denied it in very nervous way.
The bodies were found within three rods
of young Harris home, and about half a
mile from the children's home. The little
boys boots were found in the grass short
distance from the bodies. Their little
hands were tied together with piece of
tarred rope attached to a billet of wood
resem bling a rough hewn pump handle.
One of the tgrOunds Of suspicion is that
when the dead bodies were found the boy
discharged his gun and ran to his home in
an excited manner. He was one of the
searching party, and was not far distant
when the children were found.
VANwERT, Ohio, Nov. 5.-As soon as
Hart was taken to the Paulding Jail mob
of from 800 to $40 men organized 10 hang
the prisoner at once. but were dissuaded
on pleas that the chances were largely in
favor of the boys innocence and that the
guilty party was still at large. 1t was evil
dent that this argument would hold the
crowd off only until night came on. The
Sheriff watched his opportunity to spirit
the prisoner away to the jail at this place,
a distance OF thirty miles. 1t is currently
reported tonight that the mob is coming
from Paulding into Vanwert in such num-
bers that it cannot be resisted by the au-
thOrites here.
TOLEDO, Ohio. Nov. BIN addition to
the arrest of Hart, Levi Cain and Clar-
ence Brindle have been placed in Jail.
There is no direct evidence that they were
connected with the crime, but they were
found In Harris house when the latter was
taken into custody. The Hart residence,
it was found. had been freshly scrubbed,
and when 1t was searched two corn-cut-
tiers and an ak were found to be missing.
There is no doubt the murderer or muir
derers used such an instrument as an ak
| in the commission of their awful crime
| The people of Paulding are in a frenzy
| over the affair, and while there is no prob
ability of immediate violence it will bt
! hard for those responsible for the death o.
the unfortunate little ones as soon as thei
| guilt is ascertained. The mother of thu
children is very i'll and is keptin Ignorance
| Of their fate. The father has not beer
permitted to see the bodies of his children