Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-03-23
Or. 0. C. HAUGH
NEARS HIS DOOM
Murderer Of Father, Mother
and Brother Is Soon
to Die
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, March "a
Found guilty and sentenced to death
for the horrible murder of his aged
father and mother and brother, and
ming and fiendish desires have seldom
been equalled in this country" DIR.
oliver c. Haugh, a man of good fam
lily and education, 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 penitentiary an
mex for nearly year.
DIR. Haugh was a resident of Day
ton. In his early career he was highly
respected and looked upon as a talent
ed physician.
Took to Using Drugs.
| But four or five years ago tales be-
gan to be circulated regarding uncan-
ny experiments with drugs being car
|
In a short time 1t became known that
the young physician himself had be-
come drug fiend of the worst type.
Metamorphosis was wrought in the
| individuality of the man by the ex-
cessive use of morphine cocaine and
opium He became haggard, wild de-
moniacal. Several times he disappear
ed from his home,
It was later assorted that the mys-
terious murders ofSwomen in the out
skirts OF Cincinnati, so closely res
sembling the Whitechapel crimes OF
London, were coincident with some
of these flisapnearances.
Burns Bodies Of Victims
Nothing was ever brought to light,
however to substantiate the suspicion
that Dr. Haugh was connected with
these crimes.
On November s. 1906 came the ter
rible tragedy for which the young
nvhsicisn seems doomed to die in ths
electric chair.
The old family home at Vandalia,
near Dayton, where the physician had
gone to spend the night with relatives,
was burned. In the ruins were found
the bodies Of Hauehs father, his
mother and his brother Jesse Haugh.
All had been mutiated
1t was asserted that the bodies had
been saturated with kerosene In order
to aid the work of oh'tteratien,
Poisoned Before Being Burned
The authorities CHARGED DR., Haugh
with the murders, asserting that he
had set fire to the house in order tc
4 conceal his crime. PHYSICIANS assert
ed that the victims had been poisoned
before being burned.
OF the inmates Of the house on ths
fatal night DR. Haueh alone escaped
THE motive alleged for the crime wal
I pe~Sonal oain.
Or. Haugh. 1t was asserted had spen
all his money and was no longer abl
to purchase the drugs which be Graves
with an appetite that would brook n
denial
Several days before the crime Di
Haugh received from Cleveland dru
: house enough hyocene to kill doze
II men.
: Bodies Are Consumed.
i 1t was the opinion that this poiso
) was administered to his victims unit
8 they lost consciousness, after whic
: he piled their bodies into a heap, satu
rated them with oil and set fire
III them.
le They were entirely consumed by II
m Flames which completely destroyed II
st house.
re The testimony of several neighbol
: who arrived early on the scene, aide
ne in the conviction of the physician.
m Reliable witnesses swore that Il
e. odor of oil was distinctly noticeab
of in the early staees of the fire and tn
the bodies of the father. mother an
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