People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1894 — MURDERED BY ROBBERS. [ARTICLE]

MURDERED BY ROBBERS.

I Henry Saner and His Wife Slain wd Set on Fire— a Son Is Missing, i Marietta, 0., Jan. 10. —Henry Saner i and his wife were found murdered ; Monday night at their farm 3 miles ; from this city. He was a wealthy i farmer, his family consisting of himself, wife and one son. The i latter is missing. The wife has ' five bullet holes in the face ' and Saner’s head is crushed by blows ion the back. Outside of the house are ; pools of blood. The stock of Saner’s gun was found near him in the kitchen - with the barrel bent out of shape. The • clothes were partially burned off and I the faces of both more or less burned. i The barn is burned with its contents, I being full of hay. Three horses and I four or five cattle perished. The evi- ' dent purpose was to burn the house, aa : the victims were saturated with oik i but neighbors came in time to save the house. It is the theory that the son was j burned in the barn. In making a search I about the house three pocketbooks j were found containing $325. These j were all together, as if dropped in the i haste of the momenta Bureau drawers I showed that' bloody hands had been i about them. Two colored men were I seen Monday in the village of Hench- ! ville, half a mile away. They asked ■ for razors. Saner was about 60 years ' old, a soldier and a good citizen. The | crime is surrounded so' far by mystery.