Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-11
City Wrought to High
Pitch Over Murder of
Three Women.
BLACK WAS SUSPECTED
One of Victims Survives, How
ever, and Accuses Her HuS-
band of the Deed.

Savannah, Ga, Dec. 1t.-The state
nrent of Mrs. Maggie Hunter, who was
attacked and left for dead yesterday
at the same time as Mrs. Gribble and
daughter, Mrs. ohlander, were killed,
that Il was her husband. j. c. Hunter,
et>-no attacked her, today led the police
to rearrest Hunter, and he is being
held under strong guard.
Savannah, Ga, Dec. 11.-There are
now in the city prisons more than 200
negroes held under suspicion that they
may be connected with or have guy
knowledge OF the killing of three wo-
men last night or are detained for
protection. Several of the prisoners
asked to be locked up until the popular
frenzy had time to cool off.
Soothing Public.
Officers are devotins considerable
time TO soothing public feeling. it Is
realized that in the present infiamed
condition of popular opinion. tho fo'-
nation >of q mob might follow even the
partial Identification of the suspec..
Swept by DraGRet.
Savannah, Ga, Dec. 11.--Savan-
nah was swept by a dragnet of police
ofIcers and enraged citizens last
night who were seeking negro /
charged with attack on one woman
and the, murder of his victim and
two women companions in a home |
in the very heart of the city.
Sprawled hideously about the hall
and rooms of their home. Mrs. Eliza |
Gribble, aged 20 years, and her /
daughter, Mrs Carrie Ohlander, /
were found dead yesterday afternoon /
by a policeman, VINO was attracted I
by the means of a third woman,
Mrs. Maggie Hunter, aged 50, who |
is now dying, with her skull beaten |
in, at the Savannah hospital
AK is weapon Used.
An ak was used, and physicians |
say Mrs Ohlander was attacked.
A negro woman who, it is said,
lived for two days in an Clubhouse in
the rear of the GribLle home IS miss
ing. and the police dragnet. aided by
scores of volunteers, swept through /
Yamacrow in an effort at capture.
The house of the murders is at 401
Perry street, west, in a section where
residences are close. WOnderment
IS caused that the three women could
have been beaten down in turn with
put a single cry having been heard
by the scores of passers-by in the
neighborhood streets or by the near
by residents.
Killed I'm Chair.
The murders were most brutal.
Mrs GribbIe was killed as she sat in
her easy chair reading. Her gray
hair is bloodclotted where the ak
crushed her skull. Beside her body
On the floor were her newspaper and
her spectacles. One blow or two at
The most sufficed Co end her life.
Mrs Hunter was found by patrol.
nan as he stepped inside the front
ioor. She was probably struck down
As she attempted to escape from her
house.
Atrocious Murder at Detroit.
Detroit, Dec. 1.-THE murder of
Helen Brown, aged 13, of 271 Third
avenue, was revealed today by the
Bnding of the child's body lying half
trozen in Whitman's truck yard at
10 Jones street. The child's face and
head were frightfully cut and bat
tered. and there was evidence she
.he had made a desperate fight for
her life Footprints in the snow
along the east side of the yard
showed where the murderer had led
his little victim to her fate.
Had Gone ON Visit.
The girls mother sent her last
evening to visit an aunt on Fifth
street and Mrs. Brown appealed to
the police early today when she
learned her daughter had started I
home from her Fifth street visit. !
Upon the finding OF the body the po- s
lice started, practically without clues,
TO hunt the murderer.
Had Poor Home.
Alexander L. Brown, father of the $
dead girl, has been working for the /
American District Telegraph company.
delivering packages. The girls moth
er is janitress at the Empire theater. {
Helen was the oldest of a family of t
five girls and boy. Two of the chill i
dren are in the House of Providence, t
and arrangements had jzst been COM i