The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-24
MURDER WILL SURELY OUT
TORTURED CONSCIENCE OF GIRL
REVEALS A DARK TRAGEDY.
She Accuses Her Father and Two
Others, After Three Years, of the
Murder of His Sister.

Murder of His Sister.
CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio.-After al
most three years one of the most
cold-blooded and mysterious muir
ders in the history of this section of
Ohio has been cleared up and those
charged with the crime are now un-
der lock and key. 1t was the un-
easy and accusing conscience of a
woman that led to the unrayeIing of
the mystery, and to add dramatic
feature to her story her. father was
one of the three she accused.
On February IA, 1903, Miss Fan
ME Hangengans, a wealthy spinster,
who lived alone on farm with a
hired man, George Kohler, was muir
dered in her home Kohler disap-
peared at the same time and after an
investigation the authorities CON
Guided that he had killed Miss Hang
engans and made good his escape.
All efforts to trace him failed and
the case added another tally to the
long list of mysterious murders in
the state.
Her Conscience Tortured Her.
The chief beneficiary by the crime
was Henry Hangengans, brother Of
the victim and a farmer of Wester-
vile, in Franklin county, but no sus-
picion attached to him. Soon after
the crime Hangengan's daughter left
home and went to McCross, Md. She
knew that her father and two other
men were guilty of the crime, and
tortured by her knowledge and un-
willing to accuse her parent she fed.
But distance did not bring relief to
her mind. By day and by night the
vision of the lonely farm house
where her aunt had been killed arose
before her. She saw the pleading
eyes-pleading that justice should
be done-and they haunted her un-
til finally she resolved to rid her
heart Of it's burden This week she
returned to Ohio and gave the in
formation she possessed to the au-
thoTities.
Hangengans was at once arrest
ed and told story which involved
two other men, David and Edward
Mckinley, brothers, who he said had
committed the crime. After the
murder, he said, the McKinleys came
to him, told him what they had done
and asked $1,000 in rewards, adding
that the deed should be worth that,
inasmuch as he would come into pos
session of his sisters estate valued
at S25, 900. He narrated how at va
rious times he gave sums of money
to the McKinleys until the total ag-
gregated $1,000. He also cleared
up the mystery surrounding the dis
appearance of Kohler by informing
the authorities that the latter had
been murdered at the same time
Miss Hangengans was killed and he
indicated the spot where the body
had been buried.
Screening Himself.
1t is believed that Hangengans is
screening himself as far as he can
in telling the story of the crime and
that instead of being an accessory to
the murder after its commission he
Nco AtS ANdI lLlSI 5AlOl anu clSIuclllS
hired the McKinleys to commit it.
Such, it is believed, is the version of
the crime that the daughter has
given the authorities, although the
latter maintain a discreet silence on
the subject.
Both the McKinleys have been ar
rested. Edward arrest almost made
him a nervous wreck and his cOndi-
ton is such that he cannot be cues
toned. David mckinley, however,
talks freely and fatty denies every
statement made by Hangengans.
The arrest of the three men, all
well to do farmers and all hitherto
regarded fayorably by their neigh
bors, has caused a sensation fully
as great as the finding of the dead
body of Miss Hangengans in her
home on st. Valentines day, 1909.