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YOUNG WIFE |] CRUELLYSLAIN AT HER HOMEMrs. Mary Hackney Found i With Throat Cut and Skull Fractured in Eight Places.HUSBAND FINDS CORPSE ON RETURN FROM WORKMan Is Questioned by Chief ^ and Locked Up on Suspicion —Negro Also Arrested.With her skull cruehed In front and 1 back and her throat cut from ear to ear, Mrs. Mary Hackney, 26, wife of Harley C W. Hackney, a laborer wa* found murdered In her home, on Canal Ridge, near the Dane street footbridge, Cummlneville, ! j last night. The discovery was made try the woman’s husband, when he entered the house with Charles Eckert, 18, a 1 boarder at the house, on their return from their day’s work at the Farrin-Kom Dumber company's yard, in Winton Place.Harley Hackney, the murdered worn- 1 an’s husband, Charles Eckert and Her-i* man Schweringet, a mulatto boy, were ;1 looked up at the Tenth District station at!I o’clock on charges of suspicion. They 1 had been questioned closely by Chief j t Jackson and all told flimsy tales, according to the pdllce.The police and the coroner Immediately * 5 began an investigation of the horrible 1 crime. The affair is surrounded with f mystery. T^p to a late hour last night ^ the officers were unable to find a motive ^ or clew to the perpetrators of the dastardly deed.Recalls Similar Murders.The horrible crime, following the simi- ^ lar murders of Duella Mueller, Alma f Steinegeweg and Mary McDonald In that section of the city, has aroused the resi- f dents of Cumminsville. The woman’s ^ throat was cut and her head crushed in ( the same manner as the other two women. Mrs. Hackney was found in her home, while the other three were found t in fields in the same neighborhood. aMrs. Hackly was found lying on the j floor of the iiving room of her modest £ home In Canal Ridge. The body was j lying flat on its back in a pool of blood. ' The husband of the woman made the ,j Gdiscovery. He immediately called to peo- v pie passing on the railroad tracks, which c j run In front of the place, and then notl- d fled the Tenth district police of his grue- , ^ some find. Lieutenant Copelan sent a de- ; c , tall of police In Patrol to the scene and police headquarters were notified.Chief Takes Up Cate.Chief of Police Jackson and Detectives t Calnan and Dwyer went to the scene in * the police auto and Immediately took up * the work of trying to solve another worn- t an murder mystery. Four similar cases d In previous years have baffled the braine r and talent of the local detective bureau, h and from the results obtained in the preliminary work last night there is every ^ Indication that the present case will pre- gsent great difficulties toward a satisfac- ©ctory solution. fThe police questioned the husband of o the woman closely. They learned from him that he and the Eckert boy are em- £ ployed In the Farrin-Kom Dumber com- p pany’s yard, and left the house together n after bteakfast about 6 o’clock yesterday ^ moming. rIt Is a twenty-minute walk to their ^ place of employment. Hackney claims ^ that his wife was in fine spirits when he ^ left home. He returned from work abut b 5:20 o’clock, accompanied by young Eckert.Husband Tells Story. aHackney said he walked up the hillside j leading to the house from the B. O. j s railroad tracks and stepped up on the j ti porch ahead of the boy. He noticed that j the lights in the house were not burning, J g and that the house was closed up. The j h front door was slightly open when he, it : -(Continued on Page 7, Column 6.) j flt;
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Oct 26, 1910
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