St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-30
MASSAcRED TWO.
Fiend Attempts to AnnihiIate an
Entire Family.

Fiend Attempts to AnnihiIate an
Entire Family.
AKRON, O., March 29.-At q late
hour last night a masked man entered
the farm house Of Alvin M. Stone,
near Tallmadge, a few miles from this
city, and In the brief space of half an
hour, committed a horrible butchery.
When he took his departure, Stone
and his wife, both aged people, were
lying dead in bed, horribly mutilated,
and Ira Stillson, the hired man, and
Emma and Hattie Stone, the eldest
two of three daughters, were uncon-
scious from blows dealt by the muir
derer.
The assassin entered the house by
means Of a ladder, which he raised
to an upstairs window. He first
passed through the room in which
Hattie and Flora Stone were Sleep
ing without awakening them. Going
quietly down stairs to the room in
which Mr.. and Mrs. Stone slept, he
attacked them with a blunt weapon
Of some sort, hitting both fatal blows
upon the head. The murderer proceed
ed to the room of Stillson up stairs.
The hired man heard the intruder, ap-
parently, for he had arisen, when he
was dealt stunning blow on the head.
Next, the murderer turned his atten-
ton to Emma Stone, who slept in a
room by herself. When he entered
her room she screamed. That awak-
ened the two other girls, who slept
across the hall. Hattie Stone arose
to go to her sisters assistance, but as
she entered the latter's room she was
felled to the floor by blow on the
head, but was not rendered uncon-
scious Regaining her feet, she ran
to her own room and locked the door.
Throwing a bed quilt about her, she
leaDed from the window and ran
through the rain and mud to the
nearest neighbor's, a quarter Of a mile
away. After he had struck Hattie
down, the murderer returned to En-
mas room and struck her on the head,
leaving her unconscious. Then he
tried the door to the room in which
Hattie had left her younger sister,
Flora, when she jumped from the win
dow. Finding the door locked, he bat
tered it down. Finding only Flora in
the room, he asked where the other
girl was. When told that she had gone
for help. he hastily left the house and
made his escape.
Hattie, with blood streaming from
the wound in her head, managed to
reach the neighbors house, told her
story and then tainted. After she
had been put to bed, the neighbor,
calling for help, went to the Stone
house. There the evidences of the
butchery were discovered. ssThe only
person in the house who was able to
speak was Flora Stone, aged sixteen,
and she was so badly frightened that
she could tell nothing about the mur-
derer except that the man who COM
mitted it wore mask over his face.
The crime Is a mystery. There is
no possible motive for the murders,
SO far as can be learned. Certainly,
the murderer was not bent on rob-
berry, for in a bureau drawer in Mr..
Stones room were two gold watches
and some money, but nothing had
been taken, apparently.
The Summit county sheriff was
called to the scene Of the murder early
in the morning, and with a posse Of
men he has been searching all day
for clues to the murderer. Nothing
has been discovered. Ira Stillson, the
Stone have not yet regained con-
sciousness, and 1t is feared that Still
son at least will die, while the chances
for the recovery Of the two girls are
very small.