The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-06
LITTLE CHILDREN MURDERED.
Bodies Found in a Brush Heap Shock
ingly Mutilated.

| PAULDIYG. Ohio, Nov. 5.-A most APP
pallIng IN urder was discovered here this
morning. Two children OF Samuel Good,
| living three miles north Of town, were
| found in a brush heap, murdered, and al
attempt had been made 10 burn the bod
les. The girl aged 6, was decapitated and
disem boweled. The boys throat WAS cut
| from ear to ear and his head nearly severed
| from the body. The boy is years old.
The children left home ut 10 a. m. yes
terday. At y. III. searching party was
organized aud searched all night and
at O'Clock this morning the bodies were
| found. They presented 4 most horrible
spectacle. The news OF the horrible affair
spread rapidly and soon hand eds of peo-
pie were On the scene. Sheriff Staley was
among the number and arrested Charley
Hart, a neigbbor boy, who WAS at once
suspected and the people Of the neichbor-
hood are firm IL their conviction OF his
guilt. Young. Hart says be cannot read or
Wi and does not know his aye, and is
very nervous. When accused OF the crime
be denied IL 2 nervous way. The
bodies were found within three
rods Of young Harris home and
abou5 half 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 wit n
piece OF tarred rope attached 10 n billet
of wood resembling a rough hewn pump
handle. 1t is thought this will furnish a
definite clue if the boy is guilty. One of
the grounds of the suspicion Is that when
the dead bodies were found the boy dis
charged his gun and ran to his home in an
excited manner, He was one of tue
searching party snd WAS not tar distant
when the children were found.
VAN VERT O. Nov. As soon as
Hart was taken to the Paulding Jail, Il
mob of 800 10 500 men or ganzed TO hang
the prisoner aG once but We're d issuaded
on pleas that the chances were largely in
favor OF the boys innocence and that the
guilty party was still at large. IL was evil
dent that this argument would hold the
crowd off only until night came on, and
the sheriff watched his opportu nifty 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 Paulaing into Van Vert
county in such numbers that it cannot be
resisted by the authorities here.
In addition to the arrest of Hart, Levi
Cain and Clarence Brindle have been
placed in Jail. There Is no direct evidence
that they were connected with the crime,
but they were found in Hart house when
the latter WAS taken into custody. The
Hart residence, it was found, had been
freshly scrubbed, and when it was searched
two corn cutters and an axe Were found TO
be missing.
There is no doubt that the murderer or
murderers used such instrument as an
axe in the commission of their awful
crime. The people Of Paulding and the
country in the vicinity OF the murder are
in a frenzy over the affair, and while there
is no probability of immediate violence. it
will go hard with those responsible for
the death of the unfortunate little ones, as
soon as their guilt is in any way Certain.
The mother of the children is very i'll end
is kept in ignorance of their fate The
father has not been Permitted to visit the
bodies of the children.
The scepter of snpremacy-swayed easily