Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-11-08
MURDER
Two Children Found With Their
Bodies Horribly Mutilated.
C. HART ARRESTED ON SUSPICION.
A Negro Arrested as an Accomplice.
c. HART ARRESTED ON SUSPICION.
A Negro Arrested as an Accomplic'

PAULDING, O., Nov. 5.-The foulest
murder ever committed in this county
was perpetrated about two and one
half miles north of this place last
evening.
Charles Hart, a young man nine
teen years old, is now in jail, charged
with the crime, and at noon today
Leo Cain, a negro, was arrested on
suspicion of being an accomplice.
This morning at o'clock, two chill
dren of Samuel Good were found
foully murdered. The children were
a girl aged six, and boy eight years
of age.
The little girls head was crushed
and she was disemboweled. The boys
head was cut from ear to ear and an
effort had been made to burn both
bodies.
The children were missed last night
at 10 o'clock and their parents made
search without finding them. At
three o'clock party was organized
! to search for them and the neighbors
/ prosecuted the search until this morn
ing.
! Hart was arrested a short distance
from where the bodies were found
He stoutly protests his innocence,
but it is said blood was found on the
bed clothing of the bed occupied by
Hart last night.
At noon today Leo Cain, negro,
was arrested on suspicion of being
implicated in the crime, as it is known
he was with Hart last night. They
are both in jail. The negro is scared
almost to death and protests his inno-
cence.
Excitement runs high, but the au-
thorities do not apprehend any
trouble from mob violence.
The bodies are horribly mutilated
and the crime must have been com
mitted by some tiend.
No motive for the crime can be
thought of.
The prisoners have been taken to
the Van Vert jail to prevent their be.
ing lynched.
PAULDING, o., Nov. 6.-The evi
dence in the case of the murder of the
Good children is branching out like
star, and doubt as to which of the
four or more suspects now under ar
rest prevents the horror-stricken meI
from taking the law into their OWL
, hands.
Last night blood hounds wert
brought upon the train from tht
south. As they were being led through
the streets by the sheriff and thei
keeper hundreds of men joined tht
: procession and followed out to tht
scene of the tragedy, but the sheriff
made special request that none bu
/ those engaged immediately upon tn,
search go upon that section of land
The men then returned to town, leav
ing patrols on the highway SO tina
) no one could leave the county.
, The sheriff and party were out al
last night, and have not come in yet
= The officers have taken unusual pre-
cautions to prevent the information
3 they have from becoming public, bu
some new facts seem to be leaking
out. 1t is now said there is woman
r in the case. The location of one c
the bloody knives is said to be known
t and also that negro, John B. Vine
gar, will shortly be under arrest. Th
authorities have further limited tina
by night they will not only be abl
n to tell who did the deed, but also ho'
it was begun and accomplished. a
t the work seems to be tending towar
the woods to the north. A ma
}, named Clarence Brindle is also unde
" arrest. The location of only one c
the prisoners, Charles Cain, is known
v and he is in the Van Vert Jail.