The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-10-18
BLOODY CRIME.
The Murder OF Four People on
the Glney Farm
REMAINS A MYSTERY.

REMAINS A MYSTERY
Tie Mystery is Heightened by Mrs. 10
gerick, Who Was Pound Conscious
Witt Many Wounds on Her
Person Refuse to Diyulge
Name of Assailant.
Orange county is aroused over {
q1adruple murder on the O.ney farm
alb ut four miles from the centre OF
Middletowa, n. Y. Wednesday the
bodies Of Mills c. snd Frederick r
Olney were found in a wood half Z
mile above their home. They had
been shot to death Friday afternoon
The body OF Alice Ingerick, aged nine
had been found With her skull crushed
in tie CELLAR OF the Olney farmhouse,
and later her mother, Mrs. Martin
Ingssick, living, but with her skull.
crushed in three places, was found IN
horse stall in the barn, two hun
dced yards from the houss.
The abser CO Of the Oneys, VINO
we're brothers and old men, caused
surprise, not unmxsd with suspicion.
No search was made for them until
Saturday morning, when a posse OF
farmers organized a search, and at 9
',lnck The victims we're found lying
8iSaiL 50 feet Of each other.
L1,u Ingerick. 18 years old return
ed to the farm al o'clock Friday
evening. She had left the house early
in the morning with the Olney broth
ers, for whom her mother was house
keeper. The men rode in wagon,
carrying csn OF milk to Igrim Cor
nerS. When she arrived home Friday
evening she was accompanied by
Amanda Wheat, her sister. in law.
They found the house closed, and
her mother, sister and the men were
not to be found. In terror, MIS-.
Wheat and the girl fed to the Davis
farm, adjoining, where they asked
Daniel Davis to go back With them.
MI. Davis complied and searched the
house from garrett to the fist foor.
He became greatly alarmed, for the
household goods were in Confusion, a
trunk and several handbags being
burst open and bureau drawers pulled
ont and their contents streWn upon
the floor.
In the cellar, huddled in corner,
was the body of Alice. The little one
lay upon her face, with hands extend
ed above her head. The skull was
crushed. The alarm was given and
neighbors fastened to the scene. The
Middletown police were notified and
halt a dozen detectives drove out.
Lanterns wece procured and a
thorough ses.ch Of the premises
made.
At 9 O'Clock Mrs. Ingerick was
found with her skull broken, IN q
vacant horse stall in the Darn. Al
though she had three wounds upon
the head, any one Of which might be
expected to have instantly killed her,
she appeared to be only partly insen-
sible. But all attempts to learn from
her the details OF the tragedy were
unayailing. It was believed she might
know the identity Of her ssssilant but
that she was determinedly shielding
him. Alexander Merritt, who took
her and the body of her daughter into
town, became impressed with this
ides The woman made several at
tempts to arrange her skirts, and
three times In the half hours ride
raised her head and groaned.
All night long Police Chief Brinke1
acff, with several deputy sheriff.,
searched the roads and lanes near the
Olney farm, but without result. With
daylight two hundred men many OF
them armed, joined the searchers.
The Olney farm lies at the base OF a
range Of densely wooded foot hills. 1t
consists OF one hundred and seventy
acres, and the brothers had bought
the right to cut cord wood in the up
lands. One OF the searching parties
penetrated the woods. Chief Brin-
kerhoff and Deputy Sheriff HoleI
Herman led this party, and Fred
Oloey, son Of Willis G. Oiney, was
with him.
They had scarcely entered the wood
when Ring, the Olney collie deg, ran
out to meet them. He barked and
turned back into the glade .as II in
viting them to follow him. The
searchers followed into the Derby
woods, where the body Of Frederick
r. Oiney, the younger brother, va;
discovered. The man lay upon bis
back, with his hands over bis chest
A w,uad bshind the right ear showed
where the bullet had entered.
Less than a hundred feet away
Willis G. O!ney lay with four bullet
wounds in his body, one entering the
right side and one passing entirely
through the chest. The wound ir
Frederick's head bore evidences o1
having been inflicted at close range
and it appeared as II be might have
been surprised and fell without q
struggle.
The elder brother seemed to hav;
tried to escape and was evidently
brought down after three bullets hao
been fred into his body. Oae went
through the right arm, another en-
tered the right groin, third ths
right chest cavity, passing through
and the fourth through the throat.
No evidence that the bodies hae
been carried to the spot was found
and it is believed the men were sur
, prised by an assassin, who followed
them, and that they fell almost a
the same moment. Their pockets
were turned inside out and their golc
, watches and all valuableS we're miss