The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-12
CHILDREN SLAIN.
n MOST SHOCKING CRIMINAL DE-
TELOPMEyT IN ONO.
A Little Girl FearfuIly Treated and Her
Brother Likewise Gut with AN AKA
sickening siEht-Other Grimes.

Toledo. O.. November Especial. Zone
OF the most horrible crimes in the calen-
Oar or In the worlds history was commit
tel near the town OF Pauldine, n county
seat several miles west OF this city, some
time yesterday. Dut the awful evidences of
IL were not discovered until this forenoon.
Two small chiluren. a boy aged eight and
a girl aged SIX. were murdered and their
bodies thrown under n brush pile and then
a fire started 20 consume the brush and
thus blot out tine dastardly crime OF the
human bruies.
II is evident. however. that the murder
of the children was simply effort to
cover up a crime much more terrible i'm its
real import Physicians who ahve eXam!n-
Ell the remains Of the little girl declare
there is unquestiOnable evidence that the
little girl was brutaily- treated before being
murdered. The parents OF the little chill
dren, Samuel Good and wife. reside about
two miles north OF the town. Air. Good
being a well-to-dO farmer. The children
left home quite early Sunday morning to
visit neighbOr. They remained away all
day and when darkness came they had
not returned. At first the parents We're
not much alarmed. as il was raining some,
and they thought perhaps the children in
tended waiting for the rain 10 cease before
returning nome. but as the hours passed
and still they had not come. the parents
became alarmed and notified the neighbors.
: searching party was kept up all night
looking for the children. Some twenty de-
terminei men searched the neighborhood.
hut the night wore away and still no tidngs
II the lost ones.
a sicI<eninE sight.
Late this morning. however. the children
we're found, and the sight was indeed a
terrible and sickenins one. Their discovery
brought To light the most awful crime of
WI. ch the mind can conceive. The two
bodies were found in "A brush heap. The
iftle boys throat was cut from ear to
ear and his clocher and body were literally
stepped in his own blood. The little girls
head Was cut or and she was disembowel-
ell There were two deep. ugly gashcs from
the rios to the groin. From all appear
ances the dreadful crime had been COM
mitted with AK or some other equally
uuwieItiy and blunt instrument. An at
tempt had been made 10 burn the brush
lie. but the rain had evidently quenched
Tle flames before much progress had been
made.
IN examination Of the bodies disclosed
most brutal consequences, and the natural
Inference was that the murder had been
,t.-1'nitted 10 cover up that crime. as the
Crl-iIaI one. and the bodies fired, thus
hoping 20 destroy all evidences. Many
Jhi1k thc SRI was first waylaid and the
10y possibly coming along discovered the
LIN also 10 destroy al evidence or chance
- detection.
No Clue Yet.
Two theories are advanced. one that the
crime was the work Of tramps and the
other that It was the work OF local Joughs.
Two vicious looking tTamps were seen in
the vicinity yesterday. Sheriff Staley has
vs.-t-5 TO al points with a hope OF securing
some clue. Never was a community so
thoroughly aroused. ami II the murderers
ara intercepted no Jail viii prevent their
swift and terrible punishment. The COM
r.1rity demands IL and nothing else would
slffice. 4 young man named Hart mas
tea1 arrested. supposed To be in some Way
.HHr .ct,5 with the mur1er OF the Good
l-I-rea. thouEh sslr.a ot Ass clo,hins
rev-.lis nothing The bodies are now lying
Il he local undertaking establishment,
where they will b. arranged as well as
POSSIBLE before allowing the asonized pa
rents 10 see them.