The herald., 1896-03-30
MURDERS AND MYSTERIES
WHOLESALE KILLING BY AN UNKNOWN
FiHND AT AKRON, OHIO
An Aged Couple Killed and Two Other People
Badly Hurt From No Discoverable notive.
The Orisiy Record Of Murderos Deeds Of
Wrongdoers
Press spe cial Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
AsKRoN, o., March 29.-At a late hour
last night O masked man entered the farm
house of Alvin NJ. Stone, near Talmage.
near this city. and in brief space of an
hour committed horrible butchery. When
he took his departure Stone and his wife,
both aged, were lying dead in bed, horribly
mutilated, and Ira Stillson, the hired man,
and Emma Stone, the eldest of the three
daughters, we're unconscious from blows
denlth by the murderer.
The murderer entered the house by
means OF ladder which he raised to an
upstairs window. He first passed through
the room in which Hattie and Flora Stone
were sleeping, without awakening them.
Going quietly down stairs to the room in
which Mr.. and Mrs. Stone slept. he at
tackled them with blunt weapon of some
sort, hitting each upon the head. They
were probably rendered unconscious and
possibly killed by the blows, but the fend,
not satisfied, proceeded to mutilate their
bodies with knife. He cut off one of
stones ears, slashed him across the face
and stabbed him in the back.
Then he laid Mrs. Stones cheek
open with the knife. After satisfy
Ing his fiendish desires down stairs, he
proceeded to the room of Stillson. upstairs.
The hired man heard the intruder, appar-
entity, for he had risen when he was dealt
. stunning blow on the head. Then the
murderer turned his attention to Emma
Stone, who slept in a room by herself.
When he entered her room she screamed.
That awakened the two other girls who
slept across the hall. Hattie Stone rose to
60 to her sisters assistance, but as she en-
tered the la.ter's room she was felled to
the floor by q blow on the head, but for
turfately was not rendered unconscious.
RegaininR her feet. she ran to her own
room and locked the door. Throwing q
bed quilt about her, she leaped from the
4 y, aud
to tbs nearest neighbours, quarter of q
mile away. After he had struck Hattie
down the murderer returned to Emma's
room and struck her on the head, leaving
her unconscious. Then he tried the door
TO the room in which Hattie had left her
from the window. Finding the door
locked, he battered it down. Finding only
Flora in the room, he asked where the
other girl was. When told she had gone
for help he hastily left the house and made
his escape.
wound on 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. The only person in the
house who was able to speak was Flora
ened. For this reason, all she could tell
was that the man who committed the
crime wore a 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 robbery for in bureau
drawer in Mr.. Stones room were two
gold WATCHES and some money, and moth
ing had been taken.
The sheriff Of Summit county was called
o the scene of the murder early in the
norning, and with posse of men he has
Nothing has been discovered. One man
has been found who says he saw buggy
pass his house late last night in the
direction of the Stone house, and the
same horse is believed to have been found
in the streets In Kent, a few miles east of
TaImage. this morning. Ira S.illson and
Emma and Hattie Stone have not yet
recovered consciousness and it is feared
Stillson will die, while the chances for re-
covery of the two girls is very small.
CHIcAGO's BOX MYSTERY
CHICAGO, March 29.--After an examin-
alton today of the body found in the mys-
terious box sold to Austin parties by
warehouse concern here, Henry Devere
and Bas Marcel, two Frenchmen, identi-
fed it as that of their friend, Joanes Pros.
Lake City in 1898. The coroner. however,
is not satisfied that the Identification il
complete, and until more convincing evil
dence arises and no one else claims the
body, he will not give it up. The French
men said the body resembled their friend,
Chaseal, the formation of the dead mans
head resembling his, the muscles being
we'll developed as his were, the feet unusu-
ally large, were also like Chazeal's. They
also asserted Chazeal wore truss and one
was found on the dead man. The stature
and hair they asserted, Tailed with that
of Chazeal.
The coroner said the two men first said
Chazeal's teeth were filled with steel or
some other metal, but the dead man had
no filling in his teeth. Chazeal's friends
say he lived with French woman named
Rolande, now in Paris, in a small two
story house in franklin avenue, Salt Lake
City. He was q patron, they cay, of the
"V' saloon, q few doors distant from
where he lived. This saloon, they assert,
was the gathering place of a gang, and
Devere and Marcel believe it was there
Chazeal met his death. He left $25 900
in Salt Lake City bank.
Advices from Salt Lake City are that the
young Enelishman, resident Of a ranch,
whom the people of the city believed was
the murdered man, is alive.
PosTOFFICE ROBBERS
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, March 29.-Five
men we're convicted in the United States
circuit court here yesterday for robbing the
postoffice at California, Mo-, and have been
started on their journey to the penitentiary
at Leavenworth. One of the convicts, who
10 u HleT0 OOys anu WHOSE eeIlt6IlC0 Is TS-
corded in the name of Johnson, was sem
fenced to only one years Imprisonment.
Before the convicts left here, Mike Ryan,
who seems to be a leader of the gang, made
q confession, in which he declared that he
and the convict named Elliott and another
man who was shot dead by the officers who
captured the gang, were the only ones i'm.
picaced in the robbery. All the others, he
ays, are innocent. He said:
'.Ihis man Barnes goes up simply be-
cause he happened to be with us at Cedar
Ci,v. Pat Clifford was convicted simply to
make it q clean sweep. These three had
nott,ing to do with the robbery
MURDERER CONFEsSES
PHILADELPHIA. March 29.-John Rech,
the Estelleville. N. j., farmer, who was ar
rested in Bustleton, Pa, on suspicion of
having murdered his wife, Elizabeth, at
their home, was brought to police head.
quarters in this city and is held here pend
iug investigation 1t has been learned
Mrs. Rech was none other than Bessie
Weaver. whose troubles with her father
and his housekeeper. afterwards her step.
mother, gained wide publicity a dozen
years ago. Rech, it is said, today made a
confession to the police, admitting he muir
dered his wife for the purpose of enjoying
the money left by DR.. Weaver to his daugh-
ter Elizabeth. The authorities refuse TO
reveal the details of the confession.
1t is claimed he and Elizabeth Weaver
conspired to let him become the benef-
ciary under the will of her father in case