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MURDER IN CLERMONT COUNTS.The Batavia Sun nfi;—W« are indebted to a frieud for the particulars of the awful murder committed at Dale1! achool houae in Wayne township, in ihia county, ou the 9th inst., at about 8| o'clock, A. M*Arteraus Morrow, achool teacbcr, via correcting a lad of near 13 years of age, when liia brother, John Dale, of about 30# interfered. The teacher commenced upon John Dale, and was proving too herd for him, when he called to bis comrade, John Groves, for help. Grovea Immediately, wilb a aiick of stove wood, want to his rescue, and giving the teacher one blow oq the head, stunned him, so that Dale go! op. Here, i t appears hostilities ceased for a time. The teacher than went to the window to call back hia scholars who bad fled when they saw their teacher assailed. While in the act of rapping on the window Dale, unaware# came up behind him, with a club 2 incites in diameter and about 21 feet long, and gave him a blow on the hoad. He fell apparently lifeless on hia face upon th»% , floor. But to make his purpose doubiy aurc, be stood over bit prostrate foe, and with the same weapon, dealt some 4 or 5 blows, first upon one side of hia head and theu upon the other. At this june-ture, two hoyt smaller then Dale, pulled him off. The alarm was given, and (be neighbors called and found him weltering in his blood. Physicians were called and erery effort was made to resiore consciousness, but all in vain. About one o'clock be was carried to hia owq houae, where every means were uacd to restore life but all to no effect. At about 6 o'clock P. M , amid the shrieks of a bereaved wife and the piteous cries of orphan children, he expired without a struggle. The scene, together with the countcnnncet that surrounded the bed of the murdered, neighbor, made the heart aick. Mr. Morrow was a man or about 35 ycaro of age, a member of the Baptist church, and a gnn of Temperance. He bore the character of an honeat and in'fffciuive roan. He left a wife and four children to mourn his loss. Upon a post mortem examination it was ascertained that the skull was badly fractured; upon the right aide of his head there was a fracture three inches in length tunning from the ear directly upward through which the blood flowed freely, showing the lacerated condition of tlio braia.This is one of the most outrageous murders drat was ever commilted in this country. The murderers have not yet been arreated, having loft for parts unknown, soon af»er they committed the act, but officers are in pursuit of them.
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The Kalida Venture
Kalida, Ohio, US
Fri, Feb 07, 1851
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