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TRAGEDY’S VICTIMS.An Inofffinhf Old Couple fttod Their GrftticU hitdreti Foully Murdered*La Ce 4M8, Wisf.. May 28. — A horrible murder has just occurred in the town ofKickapoo, Vernon county, four personsbeing slain—Reuben Drake and wifeand two children of James Du pee,their grandchildren, who were visiting at his house. The Drake familyoccupy a farm four miles from thelittle settlement of Reedstown andthe perpetrators of the horrible dee!.* 'I' r*M| • - - amitifteen miles from Viroqua. A neighborwent to Drake’s house on an errand,knocked, but getting no answer and thedoor being partly open, entered. A mosthorrible sight confronted him. Thereon the floor lay Drake and wife, facedownwards, the head and face of eachmangled by shotgun wounds, and the door swimmiug in blood. In the next room lay two children with their throats cut from ear to ear. One of the children was yet alive, bat unable to make any commnnieati «, and died in a very short time. The bouse had been completely ransacked, showing that search \ had been made for valuables. Drake was known to have obtained some pension money a month ago. and it is supposed the murderers were after t which would Indicate that the deed wasdone by somebody iu the neighofficer* arc actively tracing one tinea to
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Mitchell Daily Republican
Mitchell, South Dakota, US
Mon, May 28, 1888
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