The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-03-25

MURDERS WIFE
AND DAUGHTER,
Highly Respects Man Coos In
sane and Commits an Awful ;.
Deed
GUILTY MAN NOT LOCATED
s'sseston Community Terribly
Shocked on Discovery Of :.
L. Crfmo IS

The Times does not often pub
lish the details of a shocking
crime and yet one was committed
at Sisseton few days ago so aw-
full that our readers will demand
an extended account of the deed.
The Sisseston Standard says: :,
The community was shocked
Sunday evening when Mrs. G. Al
Carlaw and her 18-year-old}
daughter, Frances, were found
murdered at their home in this
city. Mrs. Carlaw was found lying
across the bed with her skulf
crushed and stabbed in the neck.
cutting the juglar vein. The
daughter was found lying on the
parlor floor with her skull also
crushed and her throat cut clear
across. Evidence pointed to the
fact that the deed had been COM
mitted by the husband and father,
Geo. A. Carlaw, manager of the
Dakota Telephone Exchange at
SissetOn.
Suspicion Is Aroused
The Carlaw family were always
strong church members, and when
they did not show up at church
Sunday, the pastor telephoned to-
Oren Lewis, lineman for the tele-
phone company, and asked him
concerning their whereabouts.
Several other neighbors called up
at times during the afternoon, and
finally Mr.. Lewis went to the
house and Investigated.
He found that the COWS had
neither been fed nor MIXED that
day and that the house was still
dark and apparently deserted. He
reported these things to j. Ford
Zietlow, manager of the company
at Aberdeen. Mr.. Zietlow immed-
lately advised that in his opinion
it was a case for the sheriff, and
instructed Mr.. Lewis to summon
Sheriff Minder to investigate the
house.
Find the Bodies -
Sheriff Minder broke into the
house, and there on the parlor
floor lay the solution to the mys-
terry.
Frances, the 18 year old daugh-
ter lay in pool of blood on the
parlor floor, her throat cut and
three large holes in her head
showing that she had been hit
with heavy weapon. ]
On the bed in the bedroom, her
head covered with the pillows, lay
Mrs. Carlaw. She had been struck
over the head four times with a
huge wrench found lying nearby
and her body had been stabbed
with butcher knife discovered
on table in the middle of the
room.
1t is supposed that the daugh-
ter, Frances, was out delivering
milk, between nine and ten o.
clock Saturday morning, at the
time, and that upon her return
she entered the back door, took off
her coat and hung it on nail be-
hind the kitchen door and had
gone into another room, and, was
knocked down and her throat cut.
The body was found lying on the
floor as it had fallen before the
door of the room which contained
her dead mother.
Carlaw then drew down the
curtains and pinned them shut.
Locking both doors he decended
to basement, rugged up a sack of
hard coal against the inside of the
basement door leading out so that
when he closed the door the sack
would drop down and hold the
door securely fast.
Before leaving the house he
changed his clothes, washed off
the knife, and when leaving the
basement he took the ash pan out
of the furnace and emptied it out
doors to make his exit through