Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — WOMAN CRUELLY MURDERED. [ARTICLE]

WOMAN CRUELLY MURDERED.

(izers of Fall Rive-, Mrs?., Intensely Excited Over an Atrocious Crime. Fall Eiver, Mass., is in a state of intense excitement, due to the discovery of an atrocious murder. The victim was Miss Bertha Manchester, aged 22. Miss Manchester lived at a farm-house, four miles from the city, and was last seen alive about 7:30 in the morning when her father, Stephen Manchester, lei t for the city, accompanied by his son and hired boy, to deliver miik on his regular route. About 2 o’clock in tho afternoon they arrived home. Freddy, his 12-year-old boy, ran ahead into the house get something to eat. He opened the Kitchen door and saw his murdered sister lying in a pool of blood on the floor. He ran back to the barn and told his father, who immediately notified the police. A hasty examina:ion was made and a bloody ax was found in the woodpile near the back fence. Frank Moore, suspected of the Pacific (Mo.) train robbery, shot P. T. Stephens, a Pullmi.n conductor, at St. Louis. Moore was not identified as the train robber. Cholera has appeared at Nismes and Cette in Southern France. These places are situated within seventy-five or 100 miles c:f Marseilles. Cette ia directly on the sea coast.