Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1909-05-20
q MOST FOUL MURDER.
Mp. Forrest and Wife Killed

+. Forrest and his wife Lillian For.
rest and possibly their son. Josenb
Forrest were brntalIy killed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forces. and their
SOD aR'd abOut 19 years. lived on a
small farm in Pasuxeut district Of
81. Mays county. Their house
'ronted he Three Notch Road and
was an old fashioned structure. a
story and-a half high. Their near
est nelRhbors we're from a of a
mile toa mile distant. They lived in
great retirement and had littls TO do
with anyone. The last seen of auv
OF the family alive was on SATURDAY.
the 9Th. instant On the afternoon of
saturday the 18th, Mr.. and Mrs.
Forests dead bodies we're discov-
cred living in separate beds in an
upstairs rom. with their heads
beaten 70 jelly and their bodies I'm
an advanced state of putref lction.
A colored woman is said 10 have
gone TO their house Tn see II she
could not secure soma keat eggs to
set and could not fnd any OF the
family around or secure admission
to the house which was closed.
When after sometime no one was
seen about the house, suspicious
were aroused and DIR. ]. o. King
and John Davis went over 10 inyes-
tigate. Further investigation show
ed that back entry door was IN.
locked and they entered and went
through the house They finally
went upstairs aud discovered that a
door to q room was closed and chink-
ed up with pieces OF cloth. Thew
forced the door, and looking in to
the darkened room saw what thew
thought was two bodies stretched
out in one bed and another BODY on
the other bed The odor proved
that the bodies bad been dead for
sometime and decomposing. The
investigators closed the door and at
once went to Holly wood and notified
Justice Joseph G. While. who at
once summoned q jury OF inquest
and went to investigate the matter.
The jury was composed OF intelli-
gent citizens of the section: NJ. G.
Thompson, G. C. Thompson, Warren
Green well, Claude Thompson, W. FL.
Martin, Albert Wood, Jos. L. Colds.
borough. Fred G. Ponton. David r.
Dean. Clarence Alvey. John Davis
and Chas J. Martin.
Though strong. hardy men all
were sickened by the awful stencil
that met them when they entered
the house Of death. They went TO
the upstairs room and entering it
found the windows down, covered
with blankets and pieces of clothing
and light and air shut out from the
chamber of horrors.
On one bed was lying the b)dy OF
Mr.. Forrest fully dressed and breast
downward. Bolster and pillows
and pieces Of carpet and grain sacks
we're stuffed around the body as il
TO hide 1t and the head was beaten to
a jelly. even the face being mashed
and bruised out Of all semblance of
humanity so that it was identified
as having once been the face of Will.
liam p. Forrest only by the grey
hairs mixed in the pulpy mass and
the half Of heavy iron gray NOUS
tache.
On the other bed. lay the body of
Mrs. Forrest similarly wrapped up
and with bed covering over it. She
too was fully dressed: one OF her
feet was hanging over the side of
the bed and the other was bent up
and on the bed. She had on gum
shoes over her other shoes. Her
head too was SO beaten and crushed
that it was nothing but a pulpy mass
Of bones and flesh and hair and
blood.
The jury could not make a minute
investigation because OF the awful
horror OF the thing. but slight stains
of blood were found on the dark and
narrow steps that led to the death
room aud there was a vessel that
looked as il it might have have been
used to catch the blood aud pour it
out. No sheets were on the beds.
There was just the bars bed ticking,
as IL the occupants had been up for
sometime and the covering been
taken of to be aired.
IL was noticed that there were
about o dozen small dead chicks
around the yard of the house and in
the kitchen was found a box Of small
dead chickens which had evidently
starved 10 death because there was
go one to feed them
Diligent search is being made for
| the body of the son. also supposed
70 have been murdered, and the Off
GERS of the law are doing everything
in their power to ferret out the per,
petrators Of the crime.
The murdered man was o son of
Captain Joseph Forrest. c. S A,