Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1909 — CHARRED BODIES OF THREE IN THE RUINS [ARTICLE]

CHARRED BODIES OF THREE IN THE RUINS

Robbers Believed to Have Fired West Virginia Home. Bluefleld, W. Va., Nov. 3.—The finding of the charred bodies of three members of the family of George Hood, seventy years old, in the ruins of the Hood residence at Harper set the police on the trail of supposed robbers thought to have fired the home. The dead Eire: Washington Hood, aged thirty-five years; his sister, aged twen-ty-seven, and their niece, aged twelve years. The burned building was a two-story frame structure, the upper floor being occupied by the Hoods. In the rooms below was a restaurant conducted by a negro. The robbery theory was suggested by the fact that Washington Hood had shown over SIOO In the negro restaurant. The money was all in gold.