Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-04-02
WORK or * FlEND. 81
Aged OhiOan and Wife Murdered Near
AkrOn-Three Others Fatally Injured.

WORK OF a zFlEND.
Akron-Three Others Fatally Injured.
Cleveland, o.. March 3O,--At one
o'clock Sunday morning the most
fiendish deed that has ever claimed
entrance to the criminal history of
Ohio was perpetrated near Tallmadge,
a village five miles north of Akron.
Alvin Stone, aged 60, and his vile, aged
e., while asleep at their home were
brutally murdered by fend, who lit
.erally heat their heads to pieces, after
which numerous knife thrusts were
made into the bodies of the dead. Two
daughters. Hattie, aged 80: Emma,
aged 81, and. the: family man servant,
A. F. Stillsol, were also attacked. All
three Of these are fatally injured and
lie. unconscious and bleeding at the
home, awaiting death. They had been
beaten about the head with blunt in
:strunlent..: which Of itself must have
been large and Of great.weight.
ALVIN Stone was, among the most
wealthy and prominent. of Summit
county farmers, and his wife was also
member of one of the wealthiest and
most prominent families in northeast
ern Ohio. The object of the murder
GUS assault on the family was not rob-
berry, as numerous articles of value,
including the two gold watches of the
aged couple, which were on; tho bed
room dresser. were easily obtainable..
One member of the family alone escaped
injury-Flora, the youngest daughter,
aged 16. She is laboring under intense
excitement, but was able, between tears
and hysterical sobs, to tell what she
knew Of the affair. The old folks, she
said, occupied a chamber on the lower
floor Hattie and Flora slept upstairs.
Emma across the hall and the hired
man at the rear end of the hallway on
the same floor. At about one o'clock
Sunday morning, Flora says, she heard
an agonizing scream from Emma.
She jumped from bed and, opening the
door, started across the hall. Hattie
followed her.
Flora turning before she entered
Emma's room, the door of which was
open, saw a masked man strike Hattie
over the head with what looked like a
crowbar. Hattie with a groan fell
senseless to the floor, while Flora in
terror ran back to her room and hid
under the bedclothes. Hattie, who is
a woman of remarkable vitality, despite
her frightful injury, arose, and going
into <Flora's room urged her to throw
something over her head. Flora was
too frightened to move. Hattie4eft her
room and entering that: Of her sister,
noticed the window was open and, that
a ladder reached up to it from the
ground. She wrapped a quilt around
her and went down the ladder, running
| to Charles Sackett's. farm, "a quarter of
a mile away, where she told her story
and collapsed. - : :. : -,
f. Two of the Sacketts hurried to the
Stone house, while another summoned
a physician. When they arrived the
house was pitch dark. The side door
was open. Entering the room occu-
pied by the old folks, they were con-
fronted by. the two horribly-mutilated
bodies ofthe father and mother. Emma
was found unconscious on the floor of
her bedroom. She had been struck a
fearful blow over the forehead, and still
lies as one dead. The hired man was
found in his room in the same condi-
ton. He had also been struck over the
forehead. Flora was found under the
bedclothes in speechless fright.
| In few minutes the whole neig]1bor-
hood for miles around was aroused.
and hundreds assembled Sabout the
Stone homestead. The scene was ter
ribly impressive. The rage of those
who for so many years had lived with
and loved the amiable, honest Stone
family knew no bounds. The Akron
police department was notified, and
Detective Dunn, Marshal Mason, Sher.
if Griffin and First Deputy Hart hur-
ried to the scene. They arrived at nine
O'clock. =: -:
They found what appeared to be
tracks of a man leaving the side door,
which was open, and ending at the
road. The rain which had steadily
poured all night had, however, oblit-
Grated the tracks alcng the road, Blood
hounds were put into service, but. they
could do nothing owing to the rain.
! -. FAVOR CUBA.
Conferrees Agree to senate's Resolution.