Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-03-28
TRIPLE MURDERER MUSTDIE.
The Approaching End Of Dr.. Oliver
Crock Hdugh.
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Columbus, o., March 23.-Found
puiltv and, sentenced to death for the
horrible murder of his aged father,
mother and brother and denounced as
terminal whose cunning and fend-
ish desires have seldom been equaled
in this country" DR.. oliver Crook
Haugh, a man of good family and edu-
cation, is awaiting death in the electric
chair two weeks hence. The supreme
court has just affirmed the sentence OF
DR.. Haugh, who has been an inmate Of
the p~enitentiary annex for nearly a
year.
DIR, Haugh was a resident of Dayton.
In his early career he was highly re-
spected and looked upon as a talented
physician. But four or five years ago
tales began to circulate regarding un-
canny experiments with drugs being
carried on in the laboratory of DIR.
Haugh. In a short while it became
known that the young physician him
self had become a drug iend of the
worsttype. Metamorphosis was wrough
in the individuality of the man by the
excessive use of morphine, cocaine and
opium. He became haggard, wild, de-
moniacal.@ Several times he disap-
peared from his home. It was later
asserted that the mysterious murders
of women in the outskirts of Cincinnati,
so closely resembling h Whitechapel
crimes Of London, were c~oincident with
some of these disappearance. Nothing
was ever brought to light, however, to
s~ubstantiate the suspicion that DIR.
Haugh was connected with these
crimes.
On November 3, 1905, came the triple
tragedy for which the young physician
seems doomed to die in the electric
chair. The old family home at Van
dalia, neal Dayton, where he physi-
clan had gone to spend then night with
relatives, was burned. In the ruins
were found the bodies of laughs
father, his mother and his brother,
Jesse Haugh. All had accumulated.
It was charged that the bodies had been
saturated with kerosene in order to aid
the work of obliteration.
The authorities charged DIR. Haugh
with the murders, asserting that he had
set fire to the house in order to conceal
his crime. Physicians asserted that
the victims had been poisoned before
being burned. OF the inmates of the
house on the fatal night DR.. Haugh
alone escaped. The motive alleged for
the crime was personal gain. DR.. Haugh,
it was asserted, had spent all his money
and was no longer able to purchase the
drugs which he craved with All appetite
that brooked no denial.
Several days before the crime DR..
Haugh received from a Cleveland drug
house enough hyocine to kill a dozen
men. It was the opinion of the prosecu-
ton that this poison was administered
to his victims until they lost conscious
ness, after which he piled their bodies
into a heap, saturated them with oil
and set them afre. They were entirely
consumed by the flames, which eem-
pletely destroyed the house.
Dr.. Haugh Is married and the father
Of two children. His wife was separated
from him, however, several years be-
fore the tragedy. His father was a
highly respected resident Of Montgom-
cry county, the owner of a fine farm on
the outskirts of Dayton and a prosper
Gus wagon and buggy factory in the
city. DR.. Haugh is now SO years old