Show I JiIUBxDBR THE SOUTH andFour Children Butchered In Bed Wesson Misc Dec 9Dne of the most atrocious murders on record in i the south was committed last night in Simpson county this state 20 miles from here Brown Smith a farmer and a son of exRepresentative Edward Smith left his family at his home in I the country to go to town for shopping Y purposes thinking of no possibe danger f dan-ger for them This morning when he returned he found his wife and five children lying in their own blood and apparently dead An alarm was miscu immediately and the entire neighborhood neighbor-hood turned out to hunt for the perpetrator perpe-trator of the foul and bloody crime There being no telegraph connections connec-tions details of the murder come in slowly but it is reported this evening that one of the little girls supposed this morning to have been dead has revived enough to tell what she knows of the occurrence She says she knows the man who committed the deed that it was a negro and described him A posse is now on the track of the murderer and there is great probability probabil-ity that he will be apprehended before morning and there can be but little doubt of his meeting speedy justice when caught without waiting for the formality of a court It is learned that Mrs Smith and the other four children are dead Sheriffs McNair of Lincoln and Thompson or Copish counties have gone to the scene of the murder each with a pack of trained bloodhounds |