Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-04-02
WORK OF A FIEND.
Two Killed and Three Fatally Injured
by an Unknown Man.
The Murdered Couple Were Members Of
the Wealthiest Families In Northeast
crn ohio-Robbery Not the Object
Suspicion Rests ON n Neighbour.

the Wealthiest Families In Northeast
ern Ohio Robbery Not the Object
suspicion Rests n Neighbor.
o.. March sO.-At one
'clock Sunday morning the most fiend-
ash deed that has ever claimed entrance
10 the criminal history of Ohio. was
perpetrated near Tallmadge. a village
I've miios north of Akron.
Alvin Stone. aged o.. and his wife,
aS''d 62, while asleep at their home
were brutality murdered by a fiend. who
literally beat their heads to pieces.
after which numerous knife thrusts
: We're made into the bodies of the dead.
Two daughters, Hattie. aged 20, Emma,
aged %, and the family servant, A. +.
Stillson, were also attacked. All three
of these are fatally injured and are nm
conscious and bleeding at the home
awaiting death. They had been beaten
about the head with a blunt instrument
which of itself must have been large
and of great weight.
Alvin Stone and his wife were MEM
hers of the wealthiest and most promi-
nent families in Northeastern Ohio
The object of the murderous assault
was not robbery. as numerous articles
of value, including the two gold watches
of the aged couple, which Were on the
bedroom dresser. were not taken. The
crime is shrouded in mystery and the
whole county Is agitated. The only
suspicion as yet rests on one John
Smith, who is employed at Woodward
Parker's blacksmith shop. one-eighth of
a mile from the Stone homestead on
the Kent road. Smith was discharged
by Alvin Stone two weeks ago. The
former was a chores man about the
place. The two men had words and
smith departed in great anger. He is
now under police surveillance.
One member of the family alone es-
capped injury. daughter. aged Ii. She
Is laboring under intense excitement,
but was able, between tears and hys-
terical sobs, TO tell what she knew of
the affair. The old folks, she said. &C.
cupied 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 l o'clock Sunday
morning, Flora heard an agonizing
scream from Emma. She jumped from
bed, and, opening the door started to
l cross the hall. Hattie followed her. Flora
turning before she entered Emma
- I -N1f which was open, saw
srike Hattie over the
poiIed like a crowbar.
- $500 q h groan, fell senseless &c
back to her room and hid under the
bed clothes. Hattie, who is a woman
of remarkable vitality, despite her
frightful injury, arose and going into
Flora's room asked her to throw
something over her head. Flora was
too frightened TO move. Hattie left
her room and entering that of her
sister, noticed the window was
open and that ladder reached up to il
from the ground. She wrapped quilt
around her and went down the ladder
running to Charles Sackett's farm, q
quarter of a mile away, where she told
her story and collapsed Two of the
Sacl<ett's hurried to the Stone house
while another summoned a physician
When they arrived the house was pitcf
dark. The side door was open. Enter
ing the room occupied by the old folk,
they were confronted by the two
horribly mutilated bodies of tn,
father and mother. Emma wa,
found unconscious on the foo
of her bed room. She had been strucl
fearful blow over the forehead anc
still lies as one dead. The hired MAI
was found in his room in the same con
tition. He had also been struck ovei
the forehead. Flora was found undel
under the bed clothes in speeches
fright. In a few minutes the Who'll,
neighborhood for miles around wa
aroused and hundreds assembled abou
the Stone homestead. The scene wa
terribly impressive. The rage of thos
10 for so many years had lived witt
loved the amiable. homes
family knew no bounds
Akron -/rofice> department
1fed and Detective Dunn
-zsss.ssnai Mason, Sheriff Griffin an,
First Deputy Hart hurried to tn
scene. They arrived at o'clock. The,
found what appeared to be tracks Of ,
man leaving the side door, which wa
open, and ending at the road. Tn
rain, which had steadily poured al
night, had, however, obliterated tn
tracks along the road. Bloodhound
were put into service, but they coul
do nothing, owing to the rain
The impression seems that Smith
not the right man and committee
are organizing to scour the country il
every direction. From all the indica
tions of those who are starting to hun
iown the murderer it is idle to attemp
forecast of what will happen IL he
caught. There is but one fate in stor
for him IL he fell into the hands Of tn
citizens who are looking for him, aide
by the bloodhounds.
Sunday evening strong clew look
howard Rayenna, where a strang
orse and buggy was left by an ur
AVN man, who acted very suspic
iously.