Show Brnt l Murder Jacksonville 3 The particulars of a most horrible triple murder have just reached here Bher Meckler of Her nando County who lives som miles from the Court House having occasion to go there on the 29th ult left his three children aged 8 11 find 14 fllone with a negro named King to whom he hacj been very kird The fiend shot and mortally wounded the oldest then drove the others to the woods and shot thtt elder ddd and cut the throat of the younger and left it also for dead He then returned robbed the house of what he could carry and waylaid Mr Meckler designing to kill him on his return A neighbor accompanied accom-panied Meckler and the murder was thwarted The two wounded children when found were able to give an account ac-count of the terrible affair though one and perhaps both are now dead The assassin was captured and confessed the crime He was bung in the presence of and with the approval of 200 citizens white and colored He died sullen and unrepentant There came near being a riot at Fernandi on account of the arrest of the negro Troops were called out |