Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-12-15
NEGRO KILLED THREE WOMEN
In the Heart of Sayannah-One or
f Them Assaulted.

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Savannah, Dec. 1O.--Mrs. Eliza
Gribble, aged 20, was killed; Mrs.
Carrie Orlando was killed, and q
third woman, whose name is not
known at this hour, was so badly
beaten that she is at the point or
death in local hospital, ali the work.
OF negro man who Is now at large.
One of the three women was assault
ed and then killed.
The negro used an axe in the mur-
ders, dealing blows on the heads OF
his victims.
Sprawled hideously about the
hall and rooms of their home Mrs.
Eliza Gribble, aged 10 years. and her
daughter, Mrs. Carrie Orlando, were
found dead early this afternoon by q.
patrolman, who was attracted by ths
means of third woman, who is now
dying with her skull beaten in, at
the Savannah Hospital.
A bloody axe and the arrangement
of Mrs. Orlandos body and clothing
indicate the method of the murderer.
IN killing his victims and the motive,
for the crimes
A negro woman who, 1t Is said.
lived for two days in an outhouse i'm
the rear of the Gribble home, is.
missing, and the police dragnet, aid
ed by scores OF volunteers is being
swept through Yamacraw in an eff,
fort at capture.
The house Of the murder is at 4O1
Perry street, West, in section
where residences are close. Won
derment Is caused that the three wo-
men could have been beaten down in
turn without single cry having beam
neard ny the scores of passers-by I'm
the neighborhood streets or by the
nearby residents.
considerable mystery hangs about
the identity of the woman In the hos
pital. She is unknown to any OF
those who have seen her and as tho
lips OF Mrs. Gribble and her daueh-
ter are sealed and her own soon viii
De, IL may be that her identity wilE
not be known.
The murders were most brutal.
Mrs. Gribble was killed as she sat i'm
her easy chair reading. Her gray
hair Is blood-clotted where the de-
scending axe crushed her skull. Be-
side her body on the floor were her
newspaper and her spectacles. One
Dlow, or two at most, sufficed to end
her life. The unknown woman was
found by patrOlman as he steppeG
inside the front door. She was
probably struck down as she attempt
ed TO escape from the house.
Husband Accused.
savannah, Dec. 11.-Mrs. j. G..
Hunter the third victim OF an assas-
IN yesterday evening, Is now ex-
pected to recover. She Is semi-con-
scious and in her delirium tells the
police that the crime was committed
by her husband, who is n painter and
paper hanger. He had been arrested
heretofore by the police, who releas-
ed MIN, but he has now been arrested
again. At times Mrs. Hunter SAYS
the assailant was white man and at:
other tlmes her husband. Hunter and
his wife were living apart.
Proof Found Against HunterY
Savannah, Dec. 13.-Bloody cloth
Ing owned by J. c. Hunter, husband
or the third victim of the triple mur-
der, is found. Detectives claim chain
or proof against him Is absolute. He
is prisoner.
Mrs. Maggie Hunter, who was
beaten and left for dead at the same
time that Mrs. Eliza Gribble and her
daughter, Mrs. Orlando, were mur-
dered at their home here FRIDAY. af-
ternoon, died Of her injuries at 10
CLOCK this morning. Although She
mad regained consciousness several
times since the tragedy, the woman
never had been able to give a cohe-
rent story of the crime.
Despite the woman's statement
that Hunter committed the attack.
the police are continuing the search
Tor the negro who was seen entering
the Gribble home shortly before the
murders were discovered. Several
suspected negroes are being held by
the police, pending an Investigation,