Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-13
MURDERED AT DESHLRR.
TWO MEN KILLED AND ONE FATALLY
INJURED. co0-
Unknown Tramps Charged With The
Deed. tt' t,

FosToRIA, o., Dec. s.-Eastbound
freight No. 26 on the Baltimore q
Ohio, hich arrived here about
o'clock this morning, brought in two
bodies of men who had been foully
murdered at Deshler: also another
man badly wounded and who will
probably die from the result of his
wounds.
The ghastly find was made by
Brakeman Beeber at Bloomdale,
short distance west of this city, he
hearing the wounded man groan.
The box car in which the murdered
men were lying was invaded by the
train crew and two of them found
cold in death and the other barely
alive, but conscious, with his head
pillowed ON the breast of his com
panion.
The suffering man was made as
comfortable as possible and the train
pulled to this city, where the bodies
of the two dead were conveyed to
Asire's undertaking rooms, and the
wounded man conveyed to the
American, where medical aid was
summoned and promptly rendered by
Surgeon Henry of the b. & o., as
sisted by other physicians.
The wounded man says his name is
Henry Harris and that he resides at
Auburn, Ind, and that he is married
and has a a wife and two children.
His companions were Henry Reesh
and Arthur K. Brown, also of Au-
burn. and that the trio had boarded
the freight for the purpose of start
ing out in search of work.
They entered the box car and rode
as far as Defiance, and as the train
was pulling out of the siding the car
was invaded by four men, who, when
the train arrived at Deshler, de-
manded their money and commenced
shooting at them before receiving q
reply.
A perfect fusilade of bullets fol-
lowed and the box car resembled q
slaughter house in appearance.
Reesh was shot in the left forehead
and left forearm and Brown twice in
the right and twice in the left breast
and once in the right hip.
Harris was shot over the heart, an
inch below the left ear and about an
an inch to the rear of the same ear.
His wounds are necessarily fatal
and physicians express no hope for
his recovery, although he may pull
through by a miracle
Reesh and Brown are young men
and are unmarried.
The money secured could not have
been very large in amount, as the
men were trying to steal Il ride to
some point where there were pros
poets of securing work.
The murderers are supposed to
have been a number of tough char
by the marshal yesterday.
Harris states that he thinks the
murderers left the train at Deshler
Immediately after the shooting was
done. He was dazed and does not
have clear conception of what
transpired after being, struck in the
head by the bullets. The wound,
upon investigation here, proves to be
only At flesh injury and the ball struck
and glanced around on the outside of
the ribs. Harris had only $12 taken
and the watch found on Reesh, with
the crystal broken, had stopped S:15.
The train left Garret at 4:20.
There is no clue to the perpetra-
tors of the horrible butchery as yet.
None of the murdered or njured
men were armed.
FosTORIA, o., Dec. 9.-Henry Har-
ris, the surviving victim of Friday
nights terrible butchery at Deshler,
is still alive and is much better to-day,
but the doctors say that he cannot
recover. They probed for several of
the balls to-day and could not find
any of them but found that his skull
had been pierced three times and
that one of the bullets had lodged in
his brain. There is no important
clue to the murderers. A report was
circulated here last night that four
men had entered a private residence
at Deshler Friday night about 10
o'clock and demanded meal of the
woman of the house which she sup
piled them; that afterwards they
amused themselves about a half an
hour on a piano and when they got
tired of that, they kicked the key off
the instrument for amusement. After
they had left the lady gave the
alarm and the fellows were seen to
board a south bound G. HI. u ID.
freight train.
LATER.-The police here have re-