The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-07-21

farm, one and one-half mile enst of
Moundsvine. on the waynesburg pike,
by which one person, child OF twelve
years. will die, and the other. aged only
four years. may also BE- added to the
death list And It was only by a mere
chance that the mother of these tender
young ones escaped being killed.
Mrs. Mardoya Mason lives in
n little log hut on what is
known as the Perrell farm, on
the wAynesburs pike. with her two
children. boys. Stanley. aged twelve
years. and Willie. aged four years,
Four years ago she and her husband
separated though still bound byli the
martial tie. Henry Mason then went
to Putnam county. In the lower end OF
the state. and has resided on a farm
near Pine Grove. Since his departure.
Mira Mason has supported herself by
doing washing and keeping a small
truck garden. or course her two sons
could give her but little assistance. She
IS the daughter OF Rev. George Ryan.
minister In the NJ Il. church.
Yesterday morning she LEFT her home
and went to neighbours house some
distance away, to do u days washing.
The two children were left at the house.
Last evening Mrs. Mason returned and
found the doors closed and the children
absent. Thinking that perhaps they
were playing neafby.she was not alarm
ed. but called their names.
A moan was the only response.
ACEasEome Scene.
Her mothers nature thoroughly
aroused. Mrs. Mason called out again
and again and soon located the place
from which the means came. II was on
the hillside above the house, only few
feet away. She hurried to the spot and
was shocked TO find her younger child
lying on the ground. while pool OF
blood that dIseolored the grass, told
some frightful tale, she knew not what
Little Willie Mason looked more dead
than alive. His throat was cut and
siashed on both sides his breast was
also cut and the head too. was cut and
bruised The mother knelt by the side
Of the hoy and did all she could TO get
from him the details OF the tragedy. He
could barely speak. but the mother
gathered that late in the afternoon he
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tall man. OF middle age. who ASSAULT
ed them with hriar hoe that laid on
the grass near by. HIS brother, ne
said, was only few feet away, and the
mother found the statement true. for
young Stanley was lying on the ground
Unconscious and terribly slashed by
the weapon his assall1nt had used. His
throat. breast and Lead were cut and he
had been beaten into insensibiiity by
the blunt end OF the instrument. The
hoe was covered with blood and hairs.
Mrs. Mason carried her younger child
into the house and then aroused the
neighborhood. Mr. Gould. neighbor,
answered her call and the older boy
was taken into the house 1t was evil
dent that ne was near deaths door.
Other ueighbors cane In and n young
man named Edwards started for
Moundsville for medical assistance and
10 notify the authorities OF the tragedy.
Another mnTdsrnus Assault
BY this time darkness had spread
over everything Edwards stumbled
along over the path to the road Just as
ne wns leaving the farm yard he was
attacked by an unknown man. who
struck him with club or some blunt
Instrument. Edwards. however, heard
his assailnnt and escaped the full force
OF the blow. The assassin. seeing he
was confronted by man. turned aud
fed
Edwards went 10 Moundsvile and had
Drs. f. NJ Steele. b, ]. state and De-
Witt stewart 30 out to the Perrell
place Then he notified the authorities.
who lost no time ia investigating the
nffalr and placing men ON the track Of
the fiend. who hns undoubtedly murder
ed one poor defcnseless child, perhaps
another and made an attack on man
under cover OF darkness thinking him
woman. as this story will reveal
The physicians went ut once to the
Perrcll farm and examined the two
children. It was given out that STAN
lev. the older one. could not live be-
yond a few hours, and II was thought
the younger one would ultimately re-
cover. though seriously wounded.
The authorities nj n late hour last
night had made no Roadway IN their Of
forts TO capture the murderer. They
are looking for Henry Mason. the hus-
band of Airs. Mason, from whom she
Eouarnted four years ago. The connec-
don 81 Mason with the crime IL not
complete but he Is the only person
whom the authorities can suspect OF
hnvinp a motive for killing the two
children.
Mason In MoBndsViiie,
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