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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-10-25, Page 4THEn 4 + • ` '' ' ../,v Jet-\✓ 4, b oica4r SANDERS c DYER, Pop, 1 .1•YeaA" Cl"X , With his meridian quietTcgirl Ina, its mut tempering the woods able beautiets • time, delicate bitteu lv belle done sight s ght the most the Early ing her the household the feeding innocent Listowel, little less, letters and the GQING• which father's 'hundreds accompanied family ,Leung b, made it tied over danger now when meridian, light-hearted fondly promised was in peculiar audit Listowel. section a quarter sight of moment exchange greetings. 5 rough ing as b at her of them short be spilled where grass fence side. her duties ilia homeward ehum, remaiued •L chat. lcgiate had a surest Jessie iuterscctcd they tatter WAS and bliss ase to considerably the track. time, iu his Keith dow and distance elder (rrhe .td coming thing ficient cavered tween and her The mother her, but she was have down out her ably detained er returned field adjoining in a veru was subae Meanwhile turned started lot of rails. f flow•workers de ided a pahstng• some on the patch by a locomotive, gan a g grass w as found the grass men were occurred, account posed work, of them few feet picked bear the it dawnod Chat where cr ss 'd C) e father ing hien had se'eil lookCr1 for a livid he rerne)nbOred 1 • Tiawl)) Trawl), the and mellowness and odor leaf, of to of her of heg inhuman annals Friday mother little and the BY cuts £arm or at so the entered lei sed the to was men her to BID fi but she bright hours they and immediately She Miss Institute gond to down were rhe her for horses look daughter paid nner down was time the where home. NO now easily been and thinking ' to when pot He that memo ties of it. st=arch beside for D1ctIm.. but Baty further these aF)Ssiirt eras they over "v was the at mo m and j j landscape,: ere, 'peculiarly theconie- sister fowls, maybe ecuple groceries sometimes Sha girl's when noon. vigor of very on completing was to and maria] where and from by it her made when -room still her had family meal The and the hail and pp 0)010 Then of when track. be On ter i0' what old i tx rj un: Uy 3 in all peculiar cast- ith with autumn frost- cruelly Within Ura *e. one known assist- with r, after the out for a of TRAGIC of her the tri p of the happen had had set of mind the she bye and She b so Canada was in three about within for a place on, the remark of sight none three. would spot clot the rail the east start- an old and she to have the Col- they in it is when the on the prom- her step p at good putting pdecay- Mrs. win- some and her to get theod girtUm. every- Suf- to have be• her again seers arrived she must Eat with unayuid- farm- in the with. body had re only a the of his they from later a large struck and be- On tete binad clotted the had flow to the sup- p their one lying a. He them to Then it was Firound of them , Jessie s ' hand they ban way became area s y a re>uctttt`k abeut'see,in L little, rets dress comm otvt q bac 1. before diet•, ► I d i the I fo 0 1 1 e,t, a id emoted it with the brim facts ,just re luted to him•. He was sure that some ham had come to hie. faire oung daughter, site started Out wirer th4 section )nen [who, by the way, were Foreman Richaial Stratton and Labor- ers .Richard Forbes and Samuel. Straiee? to discover, if possible, What e, was'.. found the evidences of a tragedy on the track as the railway hien had described it to luta. II•:RU ,1 As run 33A LE t i'U Jessie hadbeen sent vh c, Jes c a for, the \veckly papers which she had been ex- to bung had been found there, but where WaS Jessie? 'The farmer asked himself this question over and over agalis; rind he sighed as though his heart would break, while the tears ran dowa his.cheeks and onto the long ,JAS. dark beard, already beginning to turn with the frosts of age, as fresh evuten- ces of a terrible murderous assault were discovered. The blood stains, ou the grass were examined more closely, and were traced a little nearer the Keith homestead, and opposite a fresh I roughed field back of which was a yip b ,, hush, mora or less swampy, and coyer- ing something less than ten acres, It is on a farm owned by John Shanks, of Listowel, and tenanted by Edward Hannah. Ou theTail feirce here theretlireeo'c were found more blood marks, and it Was quite apparent that the girl had O'her climbed over or been lifted over. Once over there was no doubt whim). ryas the case for the FOOTPRINTS 01 A MAN WEARING BOOTS were plainly visible heading from the bush, These tracks were closely fol• lowed, and about in the middle of the field, beside the large marks were the prints of a pair of feminine shoes, The weight had evidently been too much for the fellow, and he had rested bis burden there for a moment, The foot- prints were followed to the edge of the wood, but here the boggy nature of the • y ground and the thick undergrowth combined to hide them. The party en- tered the bush, and began a search, be- ing joined a short time after by Charles Gowing, who had come in from the other side to do a little shooting. The latter was the first to come on atter treceTIID*MITE of the missing'girl, rvhon he found a sill: tie which she had worn around her neck, stained with blood. :There was little doubt now what the fate of Jessie lieith was, and if there any it was uieki dispelled q Y p led a minute or two after when Foreman Stratton stepped upon what was apparently an oldlog cover- ed thickly with beautiful g Its springness aril acted his attention, and he l:nosl:ed a little of the moss. aside with his foot, dna a ghastly sight a y met his gaze. T(IERD WAS THE BODY of the light-hearted little girl who had passed him and his companions on the railroad trackearli er battle day,and the' brave man's tears•feli. en the ground with the father's as he remembered her cheery exclamations and saw the latter's`sonow. The remainder of the moss covering the corpse was taken off, and the awful death that the poor girl had suffered was made apparent. Not a stitch of clothes was left on the body, and the only thing that the cruel mar - ' deter had left to coyer her nudity from the busy little reds squirrels or tapping • q pp g woodpeckers which abound in the woods of the co i my of Perch, and, pet' chance, a passing huntsman, was the moss which he had gathered with sop in cloacthe,s der which bodynavy n Y found. The villain could not have chosen a mote ictures picturesque 01 a. p q LSoropri ate spot in the wood as a resting place for what remained of.his innocent vie At her head grew a young map- le, wbile on either side ar-d at her feet were the decayed remains of three or y four former monarchs of the forest. Overhanging was a healthy young cedar, the branches of which formed: A CANOPY I'OlR TIIE NATURAL COFFIN. flow suggestive this of the old our' Sert fable of the Babes it, the Woods Her body lead been cut bac ted in a mrst brutal and dastardly manner. A sharp knife or other keen -edged tri- strument had been drawn across her throat close up to the chin, opening it from ear to ear another cut had been ' made over the bowels and apabove the stomach anti at 1•lght angles with this was another terrible gash exposing the intestines, There were other lesser gashes on the lower part of the body. lump, wtht her forehead was a great p which had evidently bee 1 raised by a blow from some heavy instrument. Not far from where the corpse las' was found the blood stained petticoat of the a , : „u i, the lowt,z part of it being fairly saturated with the vital fluid, but the whereaboufs •of the remainder Of the clothes could not be discovered until late on Saturday afternoon, Then theyevidences Y were unearthed in a particularly (lease hickrt not very far from where the mass -covered hods had been totted, by a dog belonging to ,lir. William '1'at g ham. A SMALL CREEK RUNS ACROSS TEFF) wooly diagonally, and although .there is eon. " siderable w iter carried through it in , the early spritl,a' it id dry Flow t xegpt In one spot, where there is about a bar- , rot of water,.While [nutting for the clothes, 1. fianr R ravenson came across his, and some rum ty tvhfto sub stances on its surface attracted his no- rice. Ile went w teLtle closer and found that the water was decidedly bloody and that the lumps' were pieces of fat.aged p On either side of the water were the footprints of a man's shoe, which tel. lied exactly with - y' w those in the ploughed field, The monster had evidently . ... . , e wxslied htmA if in the pool, but where did sub lumps of fat come f F rom7 Scv , era! of them weir; as lame as the u . p , , finger. per half of a mati's fin er. The mitt- deter would hardly' have carried t ,brutallr hen that ter—twenty-aye or tlnrty yards eta r:, 6a.,aa .,..,i : .:.... _._,___.... that the. might have clung to I y a r ,. § his knife. -tit the mastery y to tits respect was cleared away whoa the post mar tem ercttrninatiUns was made, :revealing the fact that the. ,vontl3, ItitAl)l laatr ni, mT►tBtt INr1 IliNAL O1tGAes UAD flame neteloVIJD: '1'he lumpsof fat were such as would adhere to klgsq 4orgaus, ai7d he had evidently not only washed his heals. the pool, but these as well. The brute is believed to have ravished. the ss o, before he hacked ilex to death, a,nd her remains IUIItiot st7 srhfriisete.en feet from Hwem e woke covered, Here is a slight clearing., and there is evidence of a terrible etrugglo, the girl fighting with the desperation of a pure -minded girl fol• her virtue and then for her hie. '1 be marls of her body halt plain . l,y be discerned on the ground and the latter is literally saturated with blood where •1 laid It was lteto that the knife Was used with such terrible effect and from where the body was carried to the natural coffin describers • above, After its findhrlg at this place it was recovered with the moss, and subse quently with a snow•wbite sheet. Here it remained until. it was viewed by the coronor'a ,jury, after which it was re- mewed to the home and was Hist seen by the distracted mother. • The body was found a little beforeA loci: on Friday afternoon, and the news of the murder SPREAD: LIME wILDFIRD throughout the community.' Chief of Police Balmer had left Listowel in the morning for aluskoka on a shooting expedition, and. Constable Bob Wood was erforming his duties, The latter p took charge of the case, placing watch men over the corpse in the woods un - tit it had been viewed by the . coroner and his jury. Hundreds of men had by this time. been attracted to the.spot, and when the •evening express stopped at the concession to let Coroner J. P. Raskin, Crown Attorney Iddingtonand some other officials ori, a great many of the marls of the tragedyhad been ob !iterated. What a pathetically weird sight met these officials as they entered the wood. Several lanterns were burn -9i ing a dimly, flickering light onlyserv- lug to add to the ghastliness of themiirillit scene already presented by SUROUD AMIDST THE SOM ' BRRE SUJ1ROUNDINGS. A jury was empanelled on the spot, and were shown the remains and ver ious points discovered in connection with the struggle, after which they m adjourned to Mr, Keith's house and the body was brought in on a stretcher.• Theevidence of the father and mother and Charles Gowing was taken after ' which the thing t was adjourned fora wee!:. Nothing was told to lead to the discovery of the murderer. Mr. Keith related the stury of the section men coming to him where he was working in the field, just as it has been told above, and then told of the ' search for the girl. There were foot• prints almost all the way from the fence to the bush, where all trace of them were lost. According to his story there were both small and large foot- prints. He was in another part of the bush when the body was fouud by Richard Stratton. He also told of find -all ing BLOOD IN LARGE QUANTITIES in two places iu the bush. Mrs. Keith, thepoor girl's mother, told of having' sent her daughter to LisLowol tit ten o'clock in the mnrittng g,town, and gave a complete deeeri fou of her p daughter's clothing. She wore a red b jacket, dress,a blue acket with two large buttons at the throat, a bestir felt + sailors hat with two bands. of velvet around the clown anti a ilovr at one side. $he wore black gloves, a pair of.AndMusical tine low shoes and beach stockings. She had on also the usual underwear, all of which were white. The necktie found by Chas.Gowin she ideutifiecc as hayvery _ •e ing-been worn by her (laughter. It b was a white silk with red flowers. This tie, mother declared, was fastened. On in such a way that it would not fall ori', it roust have required some force .to remove it. snit ItnArte No nom; ' in fact the house was too far away from the scene of the tragedy for her to hear anything. In answer to a jury- man, Mrs Keith said her daualitt e bad with her a small purse, but oul,y suifi tient nlortey to pay the postage oI7 the letters and get the barley She had no' b y ' y'aluablc:s on her. Chas. Gowing, the last witness ex rimmed, said he had gone into the bush to do some shooting, and had accident- ally come upon the search party: He had then begun to assist in the search and found the •necktie already referred to. The only trace of a tragedy which he saw in the woods was at a place about fifty feet from vvUei'e the body was found, At that place there were of a hard struggle arida struggle, large quantity of blood was to be seen, The surface of the earth for some dis- tante around was freshly tern up. In his tramping through the woods ne r, , SAW NO TRACE OV 0LOTBING. Mr. Gowing said he had seen a man crossing Mr. Roll's farm about twelve o'cloel:. So far as he could tell from the distance at which Ile Saw him the Mary was about five feet eight inches high, and was sorrowhat atop ed. Be• g t: the v hawk hat n thought h man t ore a b w a d dark Clothc;a• T1lis man was headllle r; for the bush where the murder took place and might lravefin t the murder= ed girl where the struggle took place on the track, He did not think 'the main carrier! a valise, The mime, and its dentis were •the • . , . • i . ' our topic of con Sattou in and shoat,{1 I hat ' Wel n Saturday, and hundreds of o 0 uu x day, d morbidly curtotis men and women, _ w youua and old, tramped f)om tit to n to the •scene Qf, the trnged Confflct• •,, y• to rumors as to the indetittt of the g yiste v • ere" • en when § ti r r were , pl thine, but w they point simmered down all L o►nt COt►t1t.-. --.--, _ ._ l anllfaGt11re1S Grain S Root $10 •COMMERCIAL •® and Crushers r `a. % Cutters, 1 '0 ''•"V"" .C' 9 spot Also general 50 • • dr work. to rein 'o order. t raURRA ' & 0.. Dealers i1], cash c Eoun- Cast%n s and brass , CO. •-- First-class s berm* 7 Bowe: mm COMMERCIAL ■r r V LIVERY• - A oICI eTVSSZoeitl 111ti1.. ' assaulted then foully TL1T"clered. ' r t TE Jo4Sl A , OT 2i t111, 1894. of (, ors es Rigs an I es s Orders left at HawkshaW'S Hotel, or at the Livery StablerChriSte'soldStal d) i will receive prompt at - 11 l te11t10T1, s elepho)le mettle .i, Connection T JUVENILE CRIlIlE. A'vgt targe and influential meet• ... yw Lug was held the other day in Toronto to,cousuier the teals s and means of pre- venting the increase of juvenile.crime Clergymen. and others from different pets of Ontario were in attendancepelted Several judges and magistrates Were nu . `arfotls i ieevs were expressed Pres t p as to the causes of youthful crime, Some attributed it largely to the 'in ebriety of parents,ancl their consequent neglect in carie,;: „fur the morals of their children; while Others °considered >> t that the evils of drink were everesti• mated, and that thetsor:ial conditions of modern society were chiefly to blame• Alla teed in expressing the opinion a P g 1? tint youthful crime was sadly on the increase. No one who reads the daily. papers can came to any other conetu_ cion• As to the remedy, both lacliis end gentlemen present agreed in the )pinion that corporal punishment was necessary, under judical authority, to remedy the evil, One official thought hat the lace; of firmness in the public schools, by teachers not punishing, had / good deal to do with the increase of juvenile misdemeanors, Warden Mas she of the Reformatory- gave it; as the result of his experience, that since tor- poral punishment was suostituted in- stead of the dark cell treatment, the liseiplirte had vastly* improved. The whole subject is one of deep interest to parents and to society generally. When eve read in the daily news of so many eases of youthful crime --such as that last week of two young lads playing °Jesse James," and presenting loaded pistols to each other, with fatal results, and many other similar cases—it isand quite time that the Legislature should take the whole matter seriously in .hand, and pass laws for effecting a moral reform among youthful: crimi- s)als which parents are unable or un- willing to effect. The development- of the age, the want of respect for au- p ihority, the absence in many cases of home life, and allowing children to roam the streets at night,—all tended to an increase of juvenile crime; and it is quite time that we should cry "halt!" halt. and nt a check by wholesome p legislation to practices andmisdemean ors that will ultimately sap the founcla- tions of society, sun brightly shining glory, with the haze of Indian summer over the the atmosphere, clothed in all the of the Ca uid.UU1 selldiug fortis the of rrpelltn ntittaild little Jessie Keith, Elma township, was death on Thursday, father's dour, while for her virtue while monsters ever of n monste s ever morning, after and eater duties, and, locking of the barnyard victim started about two miles, or distant, to post a bring home sonic weelt y trail• WAY OF THE RAILWAY across the corner She had made of times before, by other members a friend who might other times aloz,o often after derkness earth that no thought the trusting the sung was nearing and she seemed particularly and merry her mother good to be home by robust health and the country girls not long until she On her way she passed who were working of a mita from, and home, and stopped THEM GOOD MORNING, a few commuu Then shepassed kiudiv railwaymen went tripping out ,r and cheery spirits, dreaming that within her young life blood on the ties at the were working, and stain the old fashioned •opposite was not long in in the town, and when she met Edith Lepharclt, a little while longer The two had gone together, inar.v mattes of talk over. Edith accompanied Mill street to by. the railroad, yet some distance minion melt went That meant that NEARLY TWDLYE O'CLOCIt, Keith,rememberines mother, quickened q and left her COMpanion She must have her father was only for dinner out of her dining saw Jessie coming, up the tract:. She were hastening readyoattenfor ninbotn the tract: until steaming on the table, had elapsed far p distance intervening hermother sighted But on looking JESSIL wAs Is seet1T. was positive sale that she had not persuaded that rnistalten. The had their noonday d she hat been in the town, to his ploughing tie very bush few rods of where, queutl-v found. the section men their work, and one of them discovered barley scattered between called the attention to the fact, it had been dropped train. A few moments srAINS wER.E FOUND and then quite Si mebody had been. they thought, for the bocl y the track a for to much that it bad in several places, sure that an acetdent but didnr't know just the whereabouts They resumed had 7nly done so, a couple of papers down the up, and found name of "W lieith." on thein that a may , trItTIeS Llai BLOOD scattered so freely Were working, to the field where, ploli ilius a.. p g ,, rid a, papers told him on the t rack, The the papers p p sin et puzzled nt e . , and then his face tears rushed to his hire rvlfr w. , "First SPECIAL Orders Store, TERMS TERMS UI, Bissett Glass COMMERIAI left will receive TRIAL i ' s .k'Yet and Rigs. WITH _ MEN, attention, BISSETT HOTSes DATES at BieaettBios.'Hardware prompt REASONABLE SOLICITED. . G. BRANT STEAM Ladies' Haircutting, A if .L00 It to _ j 1 EXETER'S S ec• P A. you whiter ' and HASTINGS, want • Popular y FORD Agent your linen tr than snow, take e '+' Hee, • Tonsorial Artist Children' EXETER 4 rill r IN West erings, Scotch lugs. French A.D.made Style, _— ®T X./ZeQin Has . a-co=s+ THE FOLLOWING of England Tweed and • i.` Be 11 st- ONTARIO Stumd r LINES: and Trou and Trouser Worsted Cloth Latest Rates. ra F .^i. u s ,1 SNL ■ S - now in stock Suitings Suitings English up in the at best AA T A. t ' , (4) and . 1)11I1G c Fanson ani P gists' toilet. tooth a C. , s Prescriptions, A tent stent supplies, soaps, brushes articles first-elass.Dru ' C. L , STORE, T rig lT 1 Gi pR P Blocli Exeter. Receipts @ Carefully prepared. Furniture! Furniture! We have our old have Parlor o insloom r new coming' g 1 • • gg y q Furniture iture :: moved back t0 store again .and. the finest stock of Bedroom and Din - ' Furniture in the at prices that Call - be beaten. Elegant goods bamboo mood. just in, • + See our beautiful new 4S a r el 0 O ll1 S• w0 are bound to sell if good goods nicelydisplayed at ti low prices will do it, T g 1 U 1 Rog 9 ODD FELLOW'S Block me )cin s, drugs,u medicines, Dl'Llo + r,- perfumes, !lair blushes, + combs and to be found in Store. Dru iS . • - = Goderieb: On Mentlay the P. m. disposed of two young girls who have been for sr me time treading the down -"jigger." ward path—Mary Duruin and ,Sarah Sproule, neither of them are over 16 years of age. They tie ere fined $10 and costs each, or four mouths in and accepted the latter as their only alternative: -011 Tuesday John Russell wss brought up as a angeroiis lune.- tic threatening amongst other things y , to burn the rtsideuce of Rev. Dr: Lre• Russell some years ago was made the victim victim of a. practical juke, one which have practical harmless and amus- biz to ordinary men. but in his case it has meant the development of a clan- ,g•erous and positive state of lunacy, and the squandering of the little fif7an- tial means he possessor. He coolly and calmly announced his intention to do some lawless act, by to hicii he would .et the law in motioh and be enabled to lay his grievance and its history fully before the High Court, Dr, Lire ;has become the: sole object of his yen geance, and to prevent sono serious const queuces it was deemed best to have Rimed' committed for safe keep- tag. The P. al, turned him over for es iminatfo+L as to his sanity, by the County Judge, and it i' likely the old man will be confined for a time at least, Clinton: The members of the Rural Deanery Deanery of Huron met in Cltutota on Ween ayr last, representatives being res nt from Se,Lforth; C'4'inrrham. twine: erich, Brussels, Blatt), Dungannon, Bayfield, Middleton and Clinton. Tint Rev. tectal !Jean Haiigins presided, and complimented the Deanery es the increased interest manifested in church work during the year, many of the toligregations having been freed from debt, gained be attendance and also in number of- communicants. Rev, Mr, Wood, the secretary, read ilio minutes, after witch a committee was elected •consistinn of Rey. Messrs. Hodgins, U Irl ,- HOImst d and 'Dennis to ticc-operate with the mission committee of the .dio- cese rn the assessment of the several pFtriaher, for cl^tirch woe%. A resole tion of sympathy for the family of the, late Cornet Wilson was carried by a staundieg vote. Matters connected with the rants to missions were then g discussed when it was the general opinion that no parish should recsxve a p p` grant when it is plain that if willing theyconte support a clergyman for p 'y themselves, and also- that DO money given to the mission fund should be z expended nfor any purpose than the i support of poor m shone. A 'vote Of thanks was awed to the rector of Cii .. aha paned. n ton for his hospitality, after which the With the benediction. meeting closed h , in the A veeetrng was helde when Writed addresseswere delivered of Bayfield, by :Rev. Messrs. Armstrong, y , a.nri. Wiled. of 'irlTirSrrham, Bicycles Se Baby i flS who above therefore give g and {, ry -. •y c YO! 1 1-✓b{tUatl Lowest The tachments can our north ' . •not 11 C J Carriages / • fL,' il Lir I a are the make a specialty named claim the people p 1 vicinity,— .. a,I' s (-®a Choice Prices. latest and for all be had by ware-rooms,—One , Dr. Lutzs . ?; , '° onlyfirm ►x,00015 that of ' callislg drug' i ; ,°sins newest our e ° ° • p of the and' we can Exeter. ° - + • ° • • a,t- goods at - door store i o @M- 1:1 i a)( L LIM]]'I'eL l'a4der y 1, ii to that stock material, dressed 9 B. ' - Pine Special t0 , is 'acknowledged ttaOSt grows; b les, 36 •• It lino floor " Cllmatei. Tj lD . o, The undersigned inform thegeneral he keeps constantly , all kinds of dressed lumber ' Ontario, C. Red, x3$2d,7t°lO9 h Land e Shingle 1 P notice 13. C. Red Cedar' .durable timber r especlallT to 40 years.' is said by that they w y ` t 36 to 40 years , 1 111- A1,Wil T.'r'I1YihPr rice wishes public in building' and un - : + is drawn which to be the that nor shin _.• g ° those who ..ill last w S ' In any .... 11J i Mprrl arr . Advocate Celrlta tO TO ed,Y1L1i ' .5 ! lair. will(am Robinson, ex -City Engi- cited xcsterda neer of London, Ont., •. y'`i 82: ""' , •. • - rl e, / jL, Net•Voir c ,Irail;u BEANS VSkn bf a )3rAias 0,,q,.no., ells, D curethe Vigorb d IKavhaorlF reetoreo the ea oe tilos min(1au11 ovtr,+vork, Ur t),e eRe ordY: of orie . leo loi ntlftilt+ Obstinate eases when. all abet relieve: Soldb-ern 5 .. , . Ina On bi[ for or eo¢t b9 m it bn TUB BMus Mr ntcllNli •or natnabtot. sold tri+ lig by J: LV,113>i!ownsei s edgers tote le cure. the moeL Y .. .. -. St Itrt .its >,Z alI°E et >ft For. V tckn6o, 05 rroor> tier nr,iA n3 dariresetne p0, Toronto, o>,£, fez For l3slein E*etoi