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At Waynesville, Warren County, O., on the morning of the 2d, the dead bodies of Mrs. Molltt Hatte, her sister, Mrs. Weeks, and tjhe latter’s daughter, Myrtle, aged 12 weflt;? fotlnd in the home of Mrs. Hatte,where they had lain undiscovered for a week and had become badly decomposed. They were-ail brained with a hatchet, and lime had been sprinkled on the bodies to delay putrefaction. Mrs.' Hatte’s son, Willie, a bright boy of 18, a few days before left for Cincinnati, and it is believed he must have known of the murder, although it seems impossible that be could have had a hand in it. Mrs. Matte’s divorced husband lived in the tftyrn, hut no suspicion’ attached to him. Mrs. Weeks lived in Cincinnati, and was on a, 1 i*tt sister In Waynesville.Willie Anderson, the son of Mrs. Hatte, one of the victims of the Waynesville (O.) murder, committed suicide at-the village of Plainville on the night of the 2d, by shooting himself* This is considered as evidence that he had a hand in the murder, hut it is generally believed he had accomplices. Willie’s mosty intimate boy companion says he had bum far *ome time receiving letters, Whteh he Vepv closely concealed, although he generally showed hiin all his correspondence. Willie Wps a great reader of dime-novelB, andWme thfhk his mind was morbidly af-n tested thereby. lt;' V f . - lt;
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Warwick White Rock Independent
Warwick, Kansas, US
Fri, Sep 12, 1879
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