Hide Article Text (OCR)
WISCONSIN’S BUTCHERY.A Horror Not Surpassed in the Record ofCrimes.Yuxqva, Wis., May 27.—Further particulars of the quadruplex murder in Vernon county serve but to increase its horror. It is now known that the motive was to secure 81,400 which Mrs. Drake was to receive from an estate in Pennsylvania, and which, it was commonly reported, had already passed into her hands. Keubin Drake was probably the most prosperous farmer in the neighborhood, but he lived in a small house of three rooms—sitting room, bed-room and kitchen. The old people were living alone, but the two grandchildren jfrom an adjoining county had come that day to visit them. Witnesses first on the scene describe it as a veritable * slaughter pen. The body of Mrs. Drake lav near the door with a bullet hole through each breast. 8he had evidently gone to the door to open it in response to a knock and been shot from the thresh-hold. Her husband lay in the center of the room on his face, with one bullet hole through the right eye and brain and another through the body near the breast. In the bedroom was a most fearful sight. On one bed lay the two children. The girl lay in front on one side as if sleeping. The head was nearly severed from the body by one powerful knife stroke. The boy had struggled all over the bed. Ilis throat was partially cut and his heart penetrated by a a terrible knife stab. Blood was spattered all over the room, on the tloor, walls and bedding. Bullets show the weapon was a 32-caliber revolver and the knife tells its own story. It is the universal opinion that the deed was done by some one in the nighborhood who was acquainted with the circumstances of the family. People of this vicinity would make short work of the murderer if in their hands.
Newspaper Details
Atlantic Daily Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa, US
Mon, May 28, 1888
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
USA 22 Jul 2020
Other Publications Near Atlantic, Iowa
Atlantic Cass County Democrat
Atlantic Bruces Optimist
Atlantic Advertiser
Atlantic News Telegraph
Atlas of Cass County Iowa
