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SEVEN PEOPLE KILLEDAnd the Murderer Winds Up by■ Suicide- 1 ■THE WOOLFOLK TRAGEDY ECLIPSEDXathonlel BCAdf' of 1*00 County, H«U ITU Wlf* and SI* Children,-And ThfQ HlaiMlI.. Atnisij Gs.} JJecesnber tSpecinl.]'-Nows reached this city todayof a. tragedy in I^ee county, which Almost rivals the ‘VToaiiolk tragedy In the number of its victims,, and eclipses St in that the criminal added his own dead body to the funeral pile* The scene as described is shocking in tho extreme*Nathaniel Read was always At outs with his family, which camiBted of a wife and six children.-- He was of a sullen nature, extreme! y jealous, and highly- passionate, _His wife lived in dread of Uo, and his children cowered in his presence, and always sought some place where his eye could potfert upon them.-- V • '• v • •On Sunday, according to a So? who staid with the family, Bead was tacituta and angry. Ho would sij for aahour at h. time with an aglyrlooking ditk in fcikhanfl If which hejTO?d pass over hb other hand,' si if* in Vthe actof Strapping it Whenever the -children ^would come near him be wpid grit ;hte\teg£h opd mumble curses- . .. ‘ .1After dark ho feigned sodden aickness, and told the hoy to go for a doctor* . The boy ran, audit was several hours before he returned ac-companied by a physician* They WOW aston-I ished to find the house a mouldering rein, while the stench from the roasted corpses was . unendurable. Not much could bo done in the way s of investigation . until daylight, when about fifty neighbors were drawn, together.- The bloody knife was found beside the well. It was evident that. Read must have cut his \ victims' threats; seven in number, as theyH slept, and then set the bouse on lire. In the. well Read’s body was founds A-frightful gash was in hia threat, which must have booninflictlti just as he jumped into the well. .The remains were all gathered together, and buried near by. Great excitement prevails.
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Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Wed, Dec 28, 1887
Page 2
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Reinhart B.
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