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Show u Hi & 1 1 B Elm bLh & n- ! Bodies Are Badjy Mutilated Muti-lated by Some Negro Fanatic San Antonio, Texas, April 12. William Wil-liam Barton, his wife, two children nnd Leon Aers, his brother-in-law, all negroes, were murdered while asleep in their homes here today. The heads of each victim appears io nave ueon crusncci wan nn axe and butcher knives were round sticking in all bodies except those of the children. chil-dren. There Is no clue, but the police bo-lievo bo-lievo a negro fanatic. Is responsible. The manner In which the negroes were butchered was similar to that In which four or five negroc families recently were exterminated in Louisiana, Louis-iana, where Clementine Barnabet, a negro woman, acknowledged the crimes. The woman said tho tenets of lier faith not only demanded the killing of all those selected for execution exe-cution by tho sect, but their children as well, on the ground that without their parents the children would suffer suf-fer from many privations. |