The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-15
AWFUL CRIME
Negro Stays I've Women and Fatally
Wounds Third.

Wounds Third.
AXE The WEAPON USED
Mrs. Eliza Gribble and Mrs. Carrie
Ohlander, Who Was Cr1minall.
Assaulted Before Being Killed
and Mrs. Maggie Hunter, Victims
of Terrible Tragedy In Savannah
Victims Of a revolving crime, Mrs
Eliza Gribble. aged 10 years, and be,
laughter, Mrs. Carrie Ohlander. were
found dead in their home, No. 4o1
Perry street, West, in Savannah, Ga.
Friday, while q third woman. Mrs
Maggie Hunter, aged 50, found JUS
inside tho front door Of the house
is at the Savannah hospital dying
Physicians state that Mrs. Ohland'
ar was the victim Of q criminal as
ault just before she was killed.
One hundred and Fifty negro men
;ausht In the meshes Of the polio
drag net through Yamacraw. the
legro section Of the city. are priso'
iers in the police station. the theor!
II the police being that a negro
nan, having planned an assault upo.
.drs. Ohlander, was compelled t.
commit the other crimes In order t.
escape.
Other arrests will be made until
,very negro in the city who In an.
way resembles the description OF ;
legro who during three days ha'
,een frequently about the premise;
Il the house Of the murders Ia 1
prisoner.
The police believe that this negro
Using an axe taken from the wood
she'd in the rear OF the Gribble home
,eat Mrs. Gribble to death, strucl
OWL Mrs. Hunter. and after assault
.ng Mrs. ohlander 81 the wide, oni
lall way, where the bodies vert
:;ound, finished his terrible work b!
,eating in her skull.with the weapoL
Mrs. Gribble evidently was attack
I'd from behind. as she sat in an cas-.
hair reading. On the floor. besid'
Ter body, were found the newspape
she was reading and her speotacles
)ne, or possibly two, blows wer
,lealt her. Her gIsy hair, bloc
matted, shows the imprint OF tn
blunt axe.
Then the murder stealthily ap
preaching aged Mrs. Gribble, kille
Ter. It Ia believed that Mrs. Ohiano
or was attacked as she left her rooL
20 enter the hall way, was assault
I'd and killed. Mrs. Hunters skul
vas crushed In and her death ID
natter Of but q few hours.
The motley hord Of prisoners ar
lufet and frightened In the polio
station and jail. 1t is believed tina
II the negro suspected Of the Grim
8 caught he can DO quickly identi
fed.
ploodhounds have been at worl
In an effort to take the trail fror
he woodshed where the axe wa.
found by the murderer, but g.
he house of murders is aimos
within the heart Of the city and q
The murders were probably commit
ted several hours before the discoV
cry Of the bodies, the dogs will b.
Of little use.
Mayor Tiedeman. OF Savannah, ha
offered q reward Of $1,000 for th'
capture with evidence to convict o
the slayer Of Mrs. aribble and Ars
Ohlander, and the aseailant OF Mrs
Maggie Hunter, who was not idenu
fed for hours after the discover:
of the murders.
II is now almost certainly know
that a negro, the negro who was g
first suspected Is the guilty man
Persons have been found who stat
that this negro was seen enterin
the Gribble house with the fata
axe In his hand, and was seer CLOS
Inc the shutters to the windows o
the house, and to leave the premis
90. all at the hour when 1t Is be
lteved the murders we're committed
This negro's description has .oeei
D: inted on handbills and scattere
broadcast over the city and county
with the reward offered. and al
nearby towns have been notified an
are on the lookout. Police oticer
IN automobiles have covered all tn
roads for miles surrounding the city
while posses on foot have scoure'
the places where automobiles coul
not 20. The house-to-house scare
OF egr homes continues. 1t seem
hardly possible that the egro ca
long remain at large.
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