Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1911 — SISTER OF MRS. VERN SCHOCK WAS MURDERED. [ARTICLE]

SISTER OF MRS. VERN SCHOCK WAS MURDERED.

Herself, Hoeband and Their Baby and Three Others Killed With Ax at Colorado Springs. A terrible crime committed last Sunday at Colorado Springs came to light Wednesday when the bodies of six murdered persons were discovered in their homes. One of the victims wah a sister of Mrs. Vernon Schock of this city, whose home prior to three weeks ago was in Medaryville. Herself and husband and their baby daughter were murdered in their home. In the adjoining house Mrs. Alice Burnham and her two children, 6 and 3 years of age, were murdered. Mrs. Schock’s sister’s name was .Mrs. Henry Frank Wayne. He went to the Woodman Sanitarium at Colorado Springs for treatment for consumption about ten months ago and three weeks ago moved his wife and baby there. A dispatch gives the following account of the discovery of the murders. afternoon a woman went! to the Burnham home to spend the afternoon and when there was no response to her knock, she weqt into the house and found Mrs. Burnham and her itwo children in their beds with their heads crushed in the the blood saturating the bedclothing and splattered about the walls. She ran from the house to give the alarm. Then a dozen persons went to the Wayne home, where there had been no sign of life for several days and there Mr. and Mrs. Wayne and their baby wdre found similarly murdered, the. bodies being horribly mangled. In the rear of the Wayne house was found a blood stained ax, the weapon that had beeh used in murdering all the victims. ' One dispatch says that there is no clew to the murder, while another says that the murderer has been captured and lias confessed but the police fear to have it become known fpr fedr of a lynching. Mrs. Rachel Scott, of Rensselaer, is the grandmother of the murdered woman and Airs. Julius Huff is an aunt. They were notified today. The bodies have been shipped to Medaryville where burial will probably take place Saturday. 7 .