Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1894 — A FEARFUL FIND. [ARTICLE]

A FEARFUL FIND.

The New Year Start# in With..* Tragedy. A special to the Kansas City Times from Independence, Ka*., Jan. 1, says: One of the most horrifying discoveries wa* made this morning when Al Brown, son-in-law of George W. Read, manager of the Lang-Bell lumber company, broke into the home of the latter and found Mr. Read, clad only In his nightclothes,sitting dead In a chair before a hot stove fed by natural gas, hl.s body in an advanced stage of decomposition; Edith Scott, a domestic of the family, lying dead on the floor of her room, and Mrs. Read and her five-year old son in bed, the boy dying and the mother unconscious. The doctors after a careful examination, decided that the family had been poisoned by strychnine, which had probably gotten into the;, food. Mrs. Read is still unconscious, bu. the doctors still have some hope of her recovery, but the boy will probably not hve through the night. John W. Hillmon who was repor have been killed near Medicine Lotgo, Kan., in 1879. who was insured in the Mutual Life of New York, for 120,000, and in the New York Life for >5,000, has been located at Paris, Idaho, by secret service men in the employ of the companies. FI fl; mon was born in Indiana in 1845.

The “Memoircs” left by Marsh.v MacMahon, which he refused to have published during his lifetime, were finished three years ago. They were transcribed i» his hotel of Rue I Bellecbasse under the direction of Count de Beanfort, his aide-de-camp. The work was done by a retired mil- I itary'officer, and pnly fifteen copies were printed on parchment for the members of the family The : ‘Mcm- { oires” are divided into several chapters, forming four volumes, which : contain in all about 2,000 pages.