Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-05-19
FOURFOLO MURDER.

"red Assassins Lie In Wait and Crue,I,
Dispatch Husband, wife and Two
| chhdren-A Third Child, beaten Iotc
| 'nsehsibility. Survives and Tells the storv
%! me Crime-Pursuit Of tho Suppo.ed
| MurdererM 'P"''"
| MILAN, Mo-, May l2-Gus Meeks
ms wife and two children were mur.
dered in cold blood Thursday night
near browning. Another of the chill.
uren OF the murdered couple was so
Dadiy injured that it is not expectea
she will recover. She was wears old
lhe excitement is so intense in the
neighb hborhood that the murderers will
pe iynched on short notice, il they are
1uily identified, by the enraped citi.
zens' The circumstances surrounding
.he horrible fourfold murder are as
follows:
In Lynn and Sullivan counties of
'"'s state there were mum ber of cases
pehoing IN the criminal courts against
Nm +. and George TAYLOR. brothers
William is a banker in Browning and
ms brother is farmer. They are
charged with forgery, larceny and ar
SON William TAYLOR, Gus Meeks and
otIiers were jointly indicted. Meeks
pleaded guilty, and was sentenced At
.e .ne last term Of court to the peniten.
tiary. r''
uov. Stone pardoned him about a
month ago for the purpose of having
niih used as witness against the
Taylor brothers They naturally had
a motive for getting him out Of the
way. '"'
~ Is reported that the Taylors had
ARRANGED with the murdered husband
ana father to give him team
OF horses and wagon, SO that
he could leave the county and
not be present at the time of the
.rial OF the brothers. The mother of
Meeks says that Thursday her son re-
celved a letter from the Taylors at
browning, telling him to be in readi.
ness to go away at 10 o'clock that
night; and that Meeks and the chill.
dren waited for Taylor until mid
night, when two men whom Meeks
sad were George and Bill Taylor, came
TO their home in a wagon. The mur.
dered man and his family got into the
wagon and started for Browning,
lhe only statement regarding the
crime obtalnable was from the 7-vear.
old girl, who was suffering greatly AZ
the time she told her story. 1t seems
that when the Meeks family and the
persons accompanying them reached
a point on the road near the school.
mouse in Lyon county, small
distance from Browning, they were
attacked by two men who were
lying In wait on the roadside. The
hrst victim of the murderers' guns was
Meeks' His wife jumped from the
wagon in terror at the sound of the
rata shot, and then she was murdered
IN the same way. The tends then
seized large stones and beat the life
out OF the two children, leaving the
third one for dead. The brains of the
little ones were beaten out in a sicken-
ng Kramer. 1t is supposed the mur.
'erers hauled the bodies of their vic.
Inns nearly two miles in the wagon to
he Taylor farm, burying them under
hay stack.
AT An, o'clock in the morning the
lving child regained her senses and
vent to the residence of a Mrs Carter
ear BY She told her terrible story.
no BOY who was sent to the Taylor
arm to investigate, verified the hor.
'r ny hnding the bodies of the rest of
he family rs stated.
lhe Carter boy, happening to meet
Gorge Taylor, unwittingly told him of
lie murders. Tiylor lost no time in
artIng for Browning on horse back.
mere he met his brother, and both
TT hurriedly on horseb back. They
IT away before the news of the
'ndish crime reached Browning. A
lard of citizens was placed at the
ystack
Soon it was discovered that a blood.
lined quilt wrapped around the bod.
mad been on fire, the purpose being
destroy the evidence of the crimes,
party OF citizens also found the re-
Iver and a stone with which the
lrderers had committed the deeds at
scene of the murders
IN the strength of descriptions fur
he'd by the living girl the sheriff
) arrested Sharon Mccullough. of
hld, and George Hewlett, of Lynn
Inty, as accomplices in the crime,
surviving child says the murder.
beat her into insensibility and
nght she was dead.
lie Taylor brothers have not been
ght vet. but it is not believed thev
escape the vigilance of the law.
lforced by the citizens of several
mites.