Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1883 — A Devil Incarnate. [ARTICLE]

A Devil Incarnate.

A dreadful and unaccountable crime was committed in Benton county, one and a half miles south of Oxford, last Monday. Ada Atkinson, a lißeen-y earold daughter of Cephas Atkinson, was murdered in her own home, where she had been left alone, and her body cut and mutilated 1 ih a horrible mannerHer throat had been cut from ear to ear, and, after death, apparently, her abdomen had been eut across with numberless deep gashes, exposing the intestines. No clue to the murderer had at last accounts, been obtained, and uo possible motive for the ciTffie can be dtscov-* er_ed. was at lirsTsupposod that the gjrl had been outraged I>y~Tranipk and (then murdered, but an examination by medical men, shows that no outrage had. been committed. Cephas Atkinson, the father of the ill-starrd girl is a wealthy farmer, and well known to many-of our c; tlzens. In our judgment the circumstances of the crime indicate that it was the work of a maniac.