People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — Young Girl Murdered. [ARTICLE]

Young Girl Murdered.

Joliet, 111., Aug. 9. —News of a foul murder of which Ellen Byron, a 14-year-old girl, is the victim, has been received from Wesley township, in the southern part of Will county. Sunday evening the girl left the home of her aunt, Mrs. Ulmstead, to return to her home, a distance of miles. She failed to arrive and Tuesday morning a searching party found her body under a hazel bush near the roadside. Marks on her person indicate a criminal assault. Suspicion is said to rest on two men who have been in the neighborhood lately.