The herald., 1894-11-06
A MASSACRE Of |NNOCENTS
Horrible Butchery of TIVE
Children.
Their Bodies Mntilated and Partly
Burned.
A Young Man Arrested on Suspicion o
Having Perpetrated the Awful
Crims-Threats of Lynch
ing Him.
BY lhe Asso ,iated.Press.

PAULDNG, o., Nov. 5-A most ap.
morning. Two children OF Samuel Good,
living three miles north OF town. were
ound in brush pile, murdered, and an
attempt had been made to burn the
bodies. The girl, aged 6. was uecapi-
tated and disem boweed, and the boys
throat was cut from ear to ear and his
head nearly severed from his body. The
weapon used was an ak. An attempt
had been made to burn the brush hear,
but it WAS too wet. The theory is the
girl WAS outraged and the double MUIR
der committed to hide the crime. The
boy was 8 years old.
The children left home at l p. m.
yesterday. At p. N. a searching party
was organized and searched all night,
and at 5 O'Clock this morning the bodies
were found. They presented most
horrible spectacle.
The news of the affair spread rapidly
and soon hundreds OF people were on
the scene. Sheriff Sta!ey WAS among
the number and arrested Charley Hart,
q neigh boris boy. who was at once sus-
pected, and the people OF the nsighhor.
hood are firm in the conviction OF bis
guilt. Young Hart Gays he cannot read
or write and does not know his age and
is very nervous. They were found within
three rods of Young Hsrt's home, and
about halt mile from the cbildren'e
home. The little boys boots were
found in the grass a short distance from
the bodies. Their little hands we're
tied together with piece of tarred
rope attached to a billet of wood re-
semblng q rough hewn pump handle.
One of the grounds of suspicion is
that when the daed bodies were found
the boy discharged his gun and ran into
his home in an excited manner. He
was one of the searching party and was
not far distant when the children were
found.
In addition to the arrest OF Hart. LIE vi
Gain and Clarence Blindle have been
placed in jail. There is no direct evi.
dence that they were connected with
the crime. but they were found in
Hart's house when the latter was taken
into custody. The Hart residence, it
was found, had been freshly scrubbed,
and when it was searched two corncut-
ters and an axe were found to be miss
ing. There 10 no doubt the MUIR
derer or murderers used such an
instrument as an axe in the
commission of their awful crime. The
people of Paulding are in frenzy over
the affair, and while there is no proba-
bility OF immediate violence, it will 60
hard with those responsible for the death
of the unfortunate little ones as soon as
their guilt is ascertsined, The mother
of the children is very i'll and is kept in
ignorance OF their tate. The father has
not been permitted to see the bodies of
his children.
VAN VERT. O.. Nov. 5.-As soon as
Hart was taken back to the Paulding
Jail, a mob OF 800 to 800 men organized
to hang the prisoner at once. but were
dissuaded on pleas that the chances
were largely in favor of the boys limo.
cence, and that the guilty party was still
at large. 1t was evident 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, distance
OF so miles. II is currently reported to.
night that the mob is coming from
Paulding into Van Vert county in such
numbers that it cannot be resisted by
the authorities here.