Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — LOCKED THE DOOR. [ARTICLE]

LOCKED THE DOOR.

A Colored Father’s Imprisoned Children Burned to Death. Starkville {Miss.) dispatch. A negro man, by the name of Bladen, living near Starkville, absented himself from his home several hours, locking his three little children in the house. When he returned the building was reduced to ashes, and all that was left of his children were a few bones and charred flesh.