The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-05-18

Hired Assas>in- Tie In Walt and trn.n.
Dispatch Husband, wife and ~.
chsidrsn-A Third Chtid. Heaten mi.
i"sen~ihiitty. survives aud Tell. III. >t.r,
az the Crime Pursuit of III. snp,.s.,
Murdcrers.
MILAN. Mo. May ie.-Gus NeekS
his wife ami two children were ,nnr.
dered in cold blood THURSDAY nisb,
near Browning. Another Of the cl,u-
dren ~ the murdered couple w.S IL
badly injured that IL j. not cxn..,.a
She will recover. She was years ia
The excitement j. so intense M Tx.
neigh borhooi that the murderer, ,yiI
he lynched on short notice. If they are
fully identified. by the enragea citi-
zcns. The circumstances surrounding
the horrible fourfold murder are AZ
follows:
In Lynn and sullivan couniie, ~
this state there were "A number Of eases
pending in the criminal courts against
VIM r. and George Taylor. brothers.
William is n banker in browning and
his brother is farmer. They are
charged with forgery. larceny and ar
son. William TAYLOR, Gus Meeks ana
others were jointly indicted Me,lss
pleaded guilty. and was sentenced Al
the last term Of court To the pcniten-
tiary.
Gov Stone pardoncd him abou, a
month ago for the purpose Of having
him used as a witness against the
Taylor brothers. They naturally lad
Il motive for getting him out ~ the
way.
Ii is reported that the TaylurS lad
arranged with the murdered husband
and father 10 give him team
of horses and "A wagon. SO that
he could .eave the count, ana
not bc present at the time NJ the
trial Of the brothers The mother Oh
Meclss says that Thursday her son nv
ceivcd letter from the Taylur~ al
browning. telling him to be IN rcad-
ness 10 20 away ut 10 o'clocN fhat
night: and that Mrelss and the ciii-
dren waited for Taylor until mia
night. when two men whom Neee,
said were George and I;ill Taylor. came
to their home in "A wagon. The mnr-
dered man and his family got into the
wagon and started for Erowning
The only statement regardin-- tie
crime obtainablc was from the ,-yeAr-
old girl. who was suffering greatly al
the time she told her story. II seems
that when the Mcells family auG the
persons accompanying them reached
point on the road near the >chao-
house in Lyon county. small
distance from Browning. they were
attacked by two men who We're
living in wait on the roadside. The
first victim of the murdcrcrs' guns was
Mceks. Ills wife jumped frori The
wagon i'm terror at the sound ~ the
fatal shot. and then she was murdered
in the same way. The fends then
seized large stones and beat the lie
out of the two children, leaving the
third one for dead. The brains ~ the
little ones were beaten out in sclSen-
ing r.anner II is supposed the MUIR
derers hauled the bodies of their vie
tins nearly two miles in the wagon %
the Taylor farm. burying them under
hay stack.
At 4:a0 o'clock in the morning the
living child regaincd her senses and
went To the residence Of Mrs Carter
near by She told her terrible story.
and a boy who was sent To the Taylor
farm to investigate, verified the hor-
ror by finding the bodies Of the rest 81
the family as stated.
The Carter boy. happening 10 meet
' George Taylor. unwittirgly told him q
the murders. Taylor lost no time in
starting for browning on horseback
There he met his brother. and both
: left hurriedlv on horseback. They
got away before the news Of the
fiendish crime reached browning \
. guard OF citizens was placed a, the
h. stack.
: soon il was discovered that n blood
stained quilt wrapped around the bod
les had been on fire, the purpose being
10 destroy the evidence of the crimes.
a party Of citizens also found the re-
volver and stone with which me
!, murdcrers had committed the deeis ~
! the scene Of the murders.
ON the strength Of descriptions fur
nished by the living girl the >hcriit
has arrested sharon Mccullough. q
: Gould, and George Hewlett. 81 Lynn
: county, as accompliccs in the crime
y The surviving child says the murder
: ers beat her into inscnsibility ana
!, thought She was dead.
The Taylor brothers have not been
caught vet. bnt il i not believed thcy
!. can escape the vigilance Of the law,
reinforced by the citizens Of several
counties.
FOtJND MURDERED.