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Show liy W.TJ.TclesraDh. IlOKItlULE MUROERS. St. Louis, 12. A horrible murder was committed near the Osage Mission, Ka., on tho night of the 20th. The facts dieted on the coroner's inrjucst are as follows : John P. Flanagan, the perpetrator of tho crime, recently met with pecuniary losses, and resolved to dispatch himself and family. On the Oth instant he procured chloroform and in the night administered it to his wife, i a child aged ten months and one two j years. About four o'clock in the morn-j morn-j ing Mrs. Flanagan awoke from the ' stupor produced by the chloroform and discovered her husband in the act of ' driving tenpenny nails into the head of 1 one of tho children. Flying to the ; rescue of her babes, she found them expiring from the effects of blows in-I in-I Dieted with a hatchet and the nails. ; She succeeded iu disarming her hus-i hus-i band and gave the alarm, when he was I taken into custody. A letter was found ! tacked to the wall of the room addres-j addres-j sed to some of his relatives, in which ! he stales that in consequence of his i mind being in such a condition ho could uot do anything, and had determined , to kill himself and family, excepting ; his son Clarence. i This morning a family named Parks I was found murdered in their houje I near Hcmyville, Indiana, consisting of j Cyrus M. Parks, his wife Isabel, his son John, aged 10, his daughter 1 Eveline, aged 17, and Ellen, aged 15. I All were terribly beatsn and their , heads crushed in with some blunt in-1 in-1 strument. Parks and wife were found I dead in bed; the daughters were found j sitting up in the kitchen alive, but j delirous and fatally hur. Shots had I been heard in the night by the neighbors, neigh-bors, but the bodies bore no buiict marks. Parks was much esteemed in the community. No clue has bom obtained to the murderers |
