People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — AN AGED COUPLE KILLED. [ARTICLE]

AN AGED COUPLE KILLED.

Murdered by an Unknown Assailant In Pennsylvania. Newton, Pa., Sept. 25.— Samuel Rightly, a cripple, aged 84 years, and his wife, two years younger, who lived alone on their farm, were foully murdered Saturday nighh Their house was then set on fire to cover up the crime A neighbor discovered the fire and extinguished it, discovering the couple dead. They were evidently killed l»y a hatchet. Nothing is known as to the motives of the murderer, as the old people were known to hare no money.