Show A iOS1 T ATROCIO AND F1P1ll H CRIME Father Mother and Two Chil dren Murdered 7 ONE LITTLE GIRL IS 1ITTLE > THE ONLY SURVIVOR Brains Beaten Out of the Children with Stones Capture of a Clever Forger Who Has Caused a Great Deal of Trouble I Trou-ble Directors of a San Francisco Bank Indicted Defaulter I gel Fleeing with an Officer in Hot PursuitA Prisoner Murdered in Jail Other Crimes Mia Mo May 11A most atrocious crime was committed last night near Browning Gus Weeks his wife and two children were murdered outright and another of 1le ks children a girl 7yearsold was so badly injured that she may not recover The circumstan ces leading up to the crime are as follows I I fol-lows There are a number of criminal cases pending in Lynn and Sullivan counties against William P Taylor Fld George Taylor brothers the former being be-ing a banker of Browning and the latter a farmer The charges against them are forgery arson and larceny William P Taylor Gus Meeks and others oth-ers were jointly indicted and Meeks pleaded guilty at the last term and was i sentenced to the penitentiary About a Abut I month ago he was pardoned by Governor Gover-nor Stone in order to use him as a witness against the Taylors who were in consequence anxious to get rid of him I I is said that the Taylors had arranged I ar-ranged with Meeks to give the latter a wagon and team to get out of the I country so that he might not be present pres-ent when the case against the Taylors I was called for trial I From Meeks mother it is learned I that yesterday he received a letter i I from the Taylors at Browning telling him to be ready at 10 oclock last night Ito I-to go away that Qus Meeks and children waited for Taylor until midnight mid-night when two men who Meeks said were George and Bill Taylor came to their house in a wagon Meeks and his family got on the wagon and started strte for fo Browning Details of the Crime I The details of the crime as near as I can be obtained were told by the little lit-tle 7yearold girl who was suffering greatly as she recited the story I apepars that when the Meeks family I and the persons accompanying them reached a point near Jenkins schoolhouse school-house in Lynn counjjf short dlstance east Browning they were met by two other men who were lying in wait Gus Meeks was first shot Mrs Meeks jumped out and she also was killed The murderers then took stones and beat the brains out of two of the chil dren and left the other for dead The murderers then loaded the whole family fam-ily into the wagon and took them two miles to the Taylor farm where they were buried under a straw stack At 430 this morning the eldest child came to her senses and made her way to the residence of a Mr Carter nearby near-by The Carter family sent a boy to the Taylor farm where he found the bodies The boy then saw George Taylor Tay-lor and innocently told him of the murder mur-der as described by the almost dying child Taylor immediately started for Browning on horseback got his brother broth-er William and both departed Their departure from Browning was before the knowledge of the murder had reached here The people of the neighborhood neigh-borhood placed guards around the straw stack where the dead bodies were found Upon investigation it was discovered dis-covered that a bloody quilt around the bodies was on fire the evident purpose being to cremate the bodies The little lit-tle girl recovered sufficiently to describe de-scribe some of the parties and upon her evidence Sharon McCullough of Gault and George Howlett of Lynn county have been arrested s participants partici-pants in the crime A party of citizens from Milan and Browning found at the place of the murder the revolver and a stone with which the murderers had shot and killed the father and mother and beaten the brains out of the two children and left the other for dead Lyn 4iins Quite Probable I I At this writing the Taylors have not been apprehended but it is not thought possible that they can escape Great I excitement prevails in this part of the I county and if the murderers are fully identified the law will have to be very strong to prevent summary punishment punish-ment LaterA farmer has just come in from the northeast and says that the T ylors have left their horses and that not less than 500 men are after them |