Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1892 — TORTURED THE VICTIMS. [ARTICLE]

TORTURED THE VICTIMS.

The Inhuman Work of Burglars in Pennsylvania. < Pensioner Killed and a Lady Fatally ‘lnJnred/BecatSe Would Kot Give Up Their Money. Early Sunday morning .two masked burglars entered the house of John Daley! an old soldier at Holidaysburg, Pa., to steal his pension money. When he refused to give np thd cash they bound his hands and feet, tied him to a chair and began torturing him. They stabbed him in the leg with a knife and lheld a lamp under his ear, burning that organ to a erlsp. The old man still-refuaeAto diyulge the hiding place, and they knocked him senseless with the butt of his revolver. They then ransacked the house, tore up the floor with a hatchet, tore the plaster from the walls, but did not find the money. They vented their chagrin by killing their bound and senseless victim. The men then went to the house of Miss Olive McDowell, an aged woman, dragged her from the bed, bound her in a blanket, gaged her and tied her to a bedpost. They then began a systematic torture to tell where her money was. They Jabbed a knife into her head repeatedly, and one of the men struck her in the left eye with his revolver, destroying her sight In t hat eye. It is feared that she will die. The robberi got, n 6 plunder, and left no clue to their Itfeutity.

The following letter from Grover Clevealnd was received by a prominent Democrat in Chattanooga, Tenn., Monday: My DearSir-I desire to thank you for the * report of the Chattanooga meeting, which you so kindly sent me, and for the friendly words you spoke of me on that occasion. I am exceedingly anxious to see our party do exactly the right thing at the Chicago convention, and I hope the delegates will be guided by judgment, and actuated by true Democratic spirit and the single desire to succeed on principle. I should not be frank if I did not say to you,that I often fear I do nbt deserve the kind things such friends as you say of me, and. I have frequent misgivings as to the wisdom of again puttiug me in nomination. I therefore am anxious that sentiment and unmeasured personal devotion should be checked when the delegates to the convention reach the period of deliberation. In any event there will be no disappointment for me in,the result; Yours, very truly, Grovek Cleveland. Two inches of snow fell In Maryland Saturday. _____