The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-31
Terrible Butchery by Masked Men Ne
Akron, O., Saturday.

Terrible ButcheTy by Masked Men Near
Akron, o., Saturday
Akron, o. March 30.-At a late hour
Saturday night a masked man entered
the farmhouse of Ain NJ 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 being aged people, were lying
dead in bed, horribly mutilated. and
Ira Stillson, the hired man, and Emma
Stone, the eldest of three daughters.
were unconscious from blows dealt by
The murderer.
The murderer 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
Florence Stone were sleeping. without
awakening them. Going quietly down
stairs t. the room in which Mr. and Mrs
Stone slept, he attacked them with a
blunt weapon Of some sort. hitting both
upon the head. They prOba bIv were
rendered unconscious. and possibly kill
j, ed, by the blows, but the ffend, not sat
Isfied with that. proceeded to mutilate
their bodies with a knife. He cut Off
bne Of Etone's ears, slashed him acros
the face ard sta bbed him in the back.
Then he laid Mrs. tones cheek open
with the knife
After satisfying his fendfsh desire
downstairs he proceeded to the room of
Stllson, upstairs. The hired man heard
the intruder apparently, for he had
arisen, when he was dealt a stunning
blow on the head.
Next the murderer turned his atten-
ton 10 Emma Stone. who slept in a room
by herself When he entered her room
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other girls, who slept across the hall.
Hattie arose to go to her sisters as
s,stance. As she entered the latter's
room she was felled to the floor by a
blSw on her head, but. fortunately. was
not rendered unconscious Regaining
her feet, she ran to her own room and
locked the door. Throwing a bed quilt
around her she leaped from the window
and ran through the rain and mud to the
nearest neighbOr a quarter of 4 mile
away
After he had struck Hattie down the
murderer turned his attention 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 window. Finding
the door locked he battered il down.
Finding only Flora in the room. he ask
ed where the other girl was. When told
that she had gone for help, he hastily
left the house and made his escape
Hattie. with the blood streaming from
the wound in her head, managed to
reach the neighbor's house. told her
story and then tainted. After she hal
been put t. bed, the neighbor, calling
for help. went to the Stone house. There
the evidences of the butchery were dis
covered. The only person in the house
who was able TO speak was Flora Stone,
eyed is. and she was badly frightened
For this reason all that she could tell
was that the man who committed 1t
wore q. mask over his face.
The crime is a mystery. There is no
possible motive for the murders so far
as can he larned. Certainly the muir
deUer was not bent on robbery, for in a
bureau draw in Mr.. Stones room was
two gold watches and some money, and
nothing had been taken.
The sheriff of Summit county 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
10 the murderer. Nothing has been dis
covered. one man has been found
who says he saw a buggy pass his house
late last night in the direction of the
Stone house, and that the same horse
is believed 70 have been. found IN the
streets of Kent. a few miss east of Tall
madge, this morning.