The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-21
Six Persons Are Found
Butchered in Their
Beds.
HEADS CRUSHED:
B DIES MANGLED
Three in One House and Three
in Another Are Attacked and
Killed While They Sleep.
Crime Committed Sew
eral Days Before
Discovered.

colorado Springs. Col, September 20.
-Butchered in their beds by some
person as yet unknown. who used an
axe. the bodies of six persons, three in
each of two neighboring houses, were
found here To-Day The heads OF all
the victims had been smashed in, and
the appearance of the bodies indicat-
ed that they had been dead several
| days. and that death came while they
slept.
report says that the murderer has
been caught. and that he has confess
ed. but this is denied by the police
officials. who. 1t is intimated. fear a
lynching might follow such an an
nouncement
Bloody Axe Found.
An axe which had been loaned to
Mrs. Henry F. Wayne, one of the vic
TINS. by j. r. Evans, a neighbor. last
week, was found. blood stained, by
Mrs Evans on Monday near the back
door OF the Wayne home. No atten-
ton was paid to this fact. however, as
II was thought the axe had been used
in killing chickens. The dead:
Mrs. Alice May Burnham. wife of A.
j. Burnhnin, cook mt the Modern Wood
men SanatorIum.
Their two children, Alice, nrcd .i1
NJ
Henry F. Wayne, a copsump,.ive. un-
I'll recently n patient mt the Woodmen
Sanntorium.
Mrs. Wayne and their one-year-oId
baby girl.
The Burnham house is situated at
Dale Street and Harrison Place and
the two houses next to IL on Dale
street are vacant. Directly in the rear
is the Wayne home. and close TO it
is that of Evans.
The discovery OF the bodies was
made by a neighbor who called at
the Burnham home. Not getting any
response and noticing a strong odor,
she forced an entrance. The bodies
OF Mrs. Burnham and those of her two
children We're found in their beds.
which were covered with blood, and
the walls and ceiling were also spat-
tered.
The woman rushed to the street and
gave the alarm. Instinctiyely dozen
persons went to the Wayne house,
where there had been no signs of life
since Sunday. and the same terrible
scene was presented. In bed were the
bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne and
their baby. all horribly mangled as In
the case OF the bodies in the Burnham
house.
That such crime had been com.
mitted in thickly settled heighbor-
hood and left unrevealed for three
days is regarded as incredible. Not
even footprint is to be found on tn.
floor of either house, and no one
could be found who had seen any one
about the premises since Sunday
when all the murdered persons at dit.
ferent times were in a neighborinp
grocery.
Durham Arrested.
Burnham. who lives at the sanator-
f0m, where he is employed. about ten
miles from the city, was arrested soon
after the discovery of the crime. but
there seems nothing to implicate him
In the tragedy. His employers say he
was at work when the crime must
have been committed. He is n native
of Michigan He was last seen at his
home Sunday afternoon. and Is said to
have left there about o'clock.
Little is known of the Wayne family
here, except that Wayne came to the
Modern Woodmen Sanatorium about
ten months ago from Indiana, as a
patient. One month ago his term In
the institution was up He brought
his wife and child here and rented the
house in which they We're murdered
When brought into the morgue the
bodies were almost unrecognizable
The head of every one of the six vic
Tins was either cut or smashed open.
and in almost every case the number
OF wounds indicated that the murder
er had cut and sma shed until he was
sure that he had DESTROYED life