Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-10-16
A YOUNG MANAGES DEEDS.
Mother and Sister Killed and Four
Other Brothers and Sisters
Fatally Injured.
HE WAS 0vERpOWERED AND LOCKED Up.
Charles CasvIey, Seventeen Years of
Age, the Young Murderer, Had
Become Deransed by the Strain
of PerfectinS a Patent on AN Air
Brake.

| Pittsburg, Pa, Oct. 11.-Whilc la
boring under mental alteration, the
result of the starin of perfecting an
appliance for patents on an airbralle
which are pending IL Washington, ID.
c., Charles Cawley, 17-year-old boy
of Homestead, Pa, early Tuesday
morning killed his mother and one
sister and fatally injured four other
children. He also tried to kill his
two older brothers, but was detected,
overpowored and turned over to the
police.
The weapon used was an AK, with
| which he crushed and hacked his yic-
Tins beyond recognition.
The dead:
Mrs. Hannah Cawley, aged about 40
years; head and upper portion of her
body pounded to jelly.
Belle Cawley, aged IL. who slept
with her mother; head frightfully
| crushed.
The fatally injured, who are at the
South Side hospital, are:
Josephine, the baby of the family,
aged Is months; head and chest bat
tered.
Adeline, aged six; skull fractured.
Raymond, aged six, twin of Ade-
line; head horribly injured.
Agnes, aged ten; head crushed.
The Cawleys live in neat six-room
house on Second avenue, Homestead,
and Thursday night all the members
retired about ten o'clock. Mrs. Caw-
ley and Belle occupied one bed, while
the others, Josephine, Adeline, Ray
mond and Agnes occupied other beds
and cribs in the same room, which is
on the second floor rear
Charles, the murderer, his brothers
James, aged 20, and Harry. aged IA,
occupied the front room. second
floor adjoining their mothers room.
Some time after three o'clock FRI
day morning Charles quietly arose,
and, dressing himself, but not putting
on his hoes, crept down to the cellar
and secured an axe. Coming upstairs,
he went into his mothers room,
where the victims were all sleeping.
After turning up the light the maniac
approached his mothers bedside,
swung the axe high in the air and
brought it down with such force that
the skull was crushed. The mother
evJlently- never k9ew wiat struck
hsgr. but the erazed son, thinking that
his first blow did not do its work,
pounded the dead mothers head al
most to a jelly. Belle, the oldest
daughter. slept throughout the time.
The dull sound of the axe on her
mothers head did not arouse her.
Charles hurried to her side of the bed
and struck her with the ak. 1t is
thought that the first blow slipped
and awoke the girl, but only for
second. She did not have time to
scream for the next blow killed her.
The fiend then turned to the small
er children and struck each one over
the head with the bloody weapon.
Believing that he had dispatched
them all, he started for his brothers
room, but James, the eldest, had been
awakened by the groans in his moth
er's room, and as Charles entered, he
seized a heavy rocking chair and,
after a fierce struggle, overpowered
him and turned him over to the po-
lice. On the way to the station he
fought ferociously, but after being
placed in cell he calmed down and
did not seem to realize what he had
| done.
When physicians reached the house,
Mrs. Cawley and Belle were dead. The
others were still living but the doc
tors announced that they could not
| live through the day.