The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-09-20 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

BOY'S TERRIBLE CRIME.  A telegram from Cincinnati, dated Sept. 3, in the New York pap rs just received, says :• - The particulars of the killing of three women a: Waynes. ville, Ohio, with a lumeliet, were briefly lel graphed last night. Tile suicide of Willie Anderson, awn of Mtn. Hatte, one of the victims, news of which has just been received, completes CAW of nh oat rentirkable cues of el ima in the his:ol y of tno State. The inves:igations of the coroner and of deteetives have developed the following fee :—Mr.. Matte livet: in Waynesville, a small quaker villag, in Warren County, with Willie Andersou, her • on bye divorced husband, a lad It yea, sof age. Win!, her were staving, temporarily, her sister, Mrs. Cl omen. tine Meeks, of Cincisina,i, and a twelve-year-old daughter of the latter. A week ap last night, , neighbours of the f amity heard seems issuing from , the house, but little attem ion was paid to the fact. On Sunday morning, the boy Willie left Waynesville I for Cincintici. The same day persona passing the I house notice I an olfensiv, stool! comber therefrom. Yesterday afternoon it became no bad that the marshal . ventured to open cite of the wiedow 8, when the ! stench became horrible. On entering he found the room in confusion, Itlld two dead bodies, one on a bed and the other under it. A furtliqg search revealed A thlrd body in the back ruoin,'Wd all were in an advanced stage of decomposition, while the head of one in the front room had been eaten by at. until the hair and scalp were all gone. The todies were unrecognisable except by the garments. Tile mother and child lay in the front room, and Mrs. Hatte in the back room, near a lounge. The latter was covered with a tick, and the head was badly mutilated. The victims bad evidently retired, the little girl's pallet lying on the floor near the window-beard, stained and tumbled, while the child lay on the bed partially covered with clothes. The poor mother had crawled under her bed to die. Her arm was • gushed with blows from a hatchet, as if it had I been put up to protect her head. Suspicion was at once attached to the boy, whose peculiar conduct toward the close of the week had been noticed. It appeared by testimony b,,fore the coroner that hehad left the lams, on Tuesday night, and spent the rest of the week at a hotel. Ile was seen, however, several times going hack to the place, and the discovery of a dime novel which had been but to him on Saturday, lying by his mother's side, shows that be must have spent SOMA time in the hose ad late AS Saturday night. It sippers that after Laving Waynesville on Sun-lay morning he Coale to Cincinnati, svhere his father, D. It. Anderson, is living. lie stopped I eta hotel over night, and viAted his father, last night he reiolved to go back to the SUMO of the tragedy, avaather with the intention of confessing the deed or of putting a bold face on the matter is not known. Ile Lad no money, and being unable to pay his fare, was put oil the train at Blisiuville, a few mil, s from Cincinnati. Ile went to a hotel, hut W.an refused admission, not having money to pay for his lodging. Nothing more was 'seen of him until one o'clock to-d • when he was fc,111.1 on a coalheap near the sta o , with a I/11 hit through his head and his right han .moping a small 32-ealibre pistol. Ile had beets dead several hours. The motive of the lad in committing the terrible riine ran only Inc ,nrmised. Ho was living, apparently, on good terms with his mother and aunt, asol was reported in tho village and ni the printing office where he sv...rke lie ! a peaceable boy. The only theory which ens:des clue to the inystery is that he acte I for or with his father. Mrs. liatte was main. d to Andel,n,, when she was 1O years old. She was a pre:ty girl, ant in her later years was revrled ad a ;I:LW:Vila°