The sun., 1908-05-17

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eight oi the sheppards, wore there frst
( aiisi glance through the open ioor IN the
bright stihlsaht ard one l0ck at the body
on4he hard PACKED dirt fecr of tho summer
Ihasiae told fthcm whats had happsfied a.
pialniy and 80 deHnitaty % 10 they. had ssen
tIss man and his, wife and tho seryant shot
ld6en. e,E, ''-'t- - VI III
V AIRS. Sheppard, gixi Of "a and . wife of
ylsxs than two years. lay face downward
,.lfiifhe front han, her head lying upon Tho
wfaite enamelled .siil of the doorway. She
lshs In her night gown ard the chin garment
waa blaolksped by powder smoke and
4 soaked In blood. A. charge Of shot from
the Winchester had torn her left hip and
\ another had gone into the back other head,
te4ring away bone and Cash. .'l,@ -.
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Her husband. onlw partly dreessd.s lay,
adross her body. o,sp arm over his wife's
yeeAk. He had been &hot squsrely ~ the
I hfuast, presumably as ho oarne down the
stAirway nrom their saeeping room. There
4 was another hole IN his body % fdg ss the
peln OF ons's hand Immediately under the
heart. Ha had boen shot theSe. Il seemed.
after he had failsn frGan the stairs--shot
y whilsihe lay dead over his wife. Tho shot
iri6dIed bassboards made that oloer.
3ennie Bcndy. the nnai6, had boon shot
! osl the stcps Of the kitchen. One shot had
n zone into her heart. The girl had fallen
through ne open door from the kitchen to
IL summer house and down four steps to
III dit floor.
The position OF the bodies, the broken
bottle OF milk which Mrs. Sheppard was
caSrying t6her baby when the murderer
oeipne upon her, the blood spattered on floor.
Il wallis and sills and the woodwork honey
c5fnbed By the heavy bird shot told clearly
the story of the murder ''as - -> .''.-'-'y,
Mrs.s Sheppard, 1t, was helieveo from
these mute evidencee, had run downstairs
hurriedly from the sleeping room of her
I sek and husband. just at the head OF the
frrnt stairway, to get some milk for the
! hsby. She had taken bottle from the
I refrigerator in the summer house when the
Hr1rdererss saw her.
. Mr. Sheppard, who must have been
+ gstting into his clothes when his wife went
d6Wnataits, presumably ran out OF the bed
q room and started down the stairs. but was
blood stains. which trailed downward from
4 the middle Of the fight. indicated where
4 he had etood when he got his first wound.
MAID KILLED AS SHE FLED.
Jennie Bendy was up and dressed ready
4 i0 prepare breakfast. 1t is likely that
wiisn she heard the shots that killed Mr.
sheppard and his wife she ran for the back
door TO hide herself in On outbuilding.
But the assassin hurried around the house
into the front door of tho kitchen and saw
Jennie as she was going through the back
door to the summer house.
X He had two cartridges left in the maga-
zine OF the repeater and sent one toward
her az she stood against the wooden door.
Tho door was red with her blood. There
was blood on the fey steps to the summer m
earth floor where Jennie had fallen.
THE BABY ALONE UNHARMRD.
Long before the neighbors had made
thSse things clear the women folk with
one idea in their minds, bad gone upstairs
/. CO learn what the baby's fate had bssn-
Nobody thought for a moment the mur-
derer had overlooked the baby. But little
MARY Sesso, with the round and chubby
fsoe Of n months. was lying in her orb
'Ehe was laughing when they first saw
her, bnt after awhile, when the bedroom
filed up with men in boots who wore whis-
kSrs and talked in low, gruf voices. Mary
SEQ began to cry. she cried pretty mpoh
~ her grandmother in New York. n
MURDERER TURNS RoBBER
Huron, or whoever it was that killed the
I. Shppp6rds and tho girl, had gone through
tie house hastily after he dropped the re-
paater. runnmagiHg bureeu drawers. breai-
IUK OD8U 9lloitEbtAo Hsrnh poOAoN-
books and turning Mrs- Hheppard's bureau
lupeide down In the search for money or
What he took there was no means OF
finding out. MIR. Sheppard very likely
had some money in the house. Some s0g
Ids neighbors said he usually kept SseveRal
hundred dollars on hand for the running
expenseso of the chicken and pigeon business
and the farm, and Mrs Sheppard ,hsr woman Z
acquaintanoes were pretty sure had rings.
and trinkets that were valuable! c'5t 4
Whatever they may have had Of money
or jewelfy was gone. The floors were
Il filtered with the contents OF drawers and
closets and half q dozen purses gapsd,
0pen. 80 \. :.
\ Assistant Prosecutor Andrew J.pC. Stokes
i az Monmouth county and Coroner John
) Gravatt, with constablea and county de-.
: tectives, took charge Of matters and began
I a search for clues that would lesd to the
aseassin /. They found tracks III the soft
mould back Of, the house. freshly made
] shoe prints, which led TO the woods in the
rear. Young Marcell,,s Quaokenbush of
I Tickatunk, with half a. dozen, young
: farmers. all Of them carrying shotguns or
t5istols, took that trail hopefully enough
but with dogs that had Been trained TO
4 X the Weather.