People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — THEY GOT AWAY. [ARTICLE]

THEY GOT AWAY.

Surrounded In a Swamp, Brutal Murderer* Manage to Kscape. Washington, Ind., Sept. 25.—The murderers of the Wratten family were traced to a swamp in Dubois county, known as Lenin’s wood, which contains about eighty acres of undergrowth. The officers, accompanied by hundreds of men, surrounded the wood, but the murderers succeeded in escaping. They were discovered' by the neighbors who saw a man taking food into the thicket and the officers were informed at once. Ethel Wratten, the 12-year-old daughter whom the murderers failed to kill on the spot, died Saturday night and was buried beside the other members of the family. Intense excitement prevails and it is not likely the murderers would receive much mercy if caught.

A large area of ground over the Salisbury mine at Ishpemiog, Mich., caved in Sunday, narrowly missing taking down the main engine house, which is now on the brink of the pit, some 00 feet deep.