The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1907-10-07
GIRL BRUTALLY SLAIN
Little One Assaulted, Murdered
and Hidden Near Home.
BOYS DISCOVER HER BODY

trolley Conductor, With Whom She
and Her Mother Lived, and a 49,
Year-oId Youth Held For Investi.
CATION.
Camden, N. j., Oct 7.-Frightfully
nangled and giving all evidences OF
having been previously assaulted, the
hsdy of 9-year-old Ethel Marx, or
Nsyins, was found in some bushes only
q few yards from her home, 80 South
<lst street, from which she had been
missing since Thursday. That the girl
had been cruelty murdered after an
other crime had been committed, the
physicians and officials had no doubt,
and as a result of their Investigations
Harry Harx, a trolley conductor, Win
whom the child and her mother and
little brother lived, and Joseph Wood,
18 years old. son of a ne1ghborlns
farmer, are held to await further In
vestigation.
For about five years the murdered
girls mother, the wife of Frank New
ms, of Cayuga county, New York, has
been living with Marx. and the little
one and her brother were apparently
not very welcome.
Little Ethel was first reported TO
the Camden police as missing Thurs
day, and was supposed to have been
ut the home of Marks mother in Phil
adelphia.
When it became known Saturday that
the child had not been located, Harvey
Harrop and Roland Oakley, both Ii
wears old, and who resided in the
neishborhood, decided to form
searching party. They had been gone
but about Is minutes. when in walk
ing through small lane their atten.
tion was attracted to a bush lot by q
horrible stencil.
"I wonder what that smell is?" said
Oakley.
Looks like a grave over there
said Harrop. wonder what 1t can
be?"
The boy was not anxious to make
thorough investigation, and as the
youths were about to leave the bush
lot they saw what looked like child's
hand protruding from under a section
Of old tin roof.
Moving the tin, they made the ghast-
ly discovery.
&"Oh, murder! It's Ethel" they cried
In chorus.
An autopsy of the body showed that
the little girl must have been dead al
least two days, indicating that she had
been slain the day her disappearance
was reported Her head was battered,
her clothing torn, and there was am
ple evidence that the poor child had
met death in futile attempt to Toll
an inhuman assailant. Old, expert
enced officials were almost choked
with emotion as they turned from the
heartbreaking scene.
The detention of the boy, Wood, is
regarded with significance. Wood Is
the son of Jacob Wood, who has a
farm in the vicinity of the Marx home.
The police they learned that on the
day the little girl disappeared WOOD
was seen crossing the bush lot where
the body was found, with Ratchet In
his hand The physicians who exam
fined the corpse of the little girl said
she had been killed with some such
weapon as a Ratchet, for there is
hole in one side of the head such, as
would be made by the pole OF the
tool. Moreover the corpse lay beneath
some roofing tin which formerly COW
cred q little shanty on Woods farm,
which young Wood and some OF his
boy companions used, but which was
DESTROYED at the command of his
father. The police expect to gather
much valuable information from Marx
and Wood