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Show THE TAN YARD MURDER. Lxfeadlo Beam Made HI ITirst Strike. ew York, April 10. I believe "The lard Murder" was Lafcadio Hearn's assignment as a reporter on The Cin-aft Cin-aft Enquirer. The crime was com-m com-m one Saturday night in the latter if October, 1874, but was not discov-Mil discov-Mil the next day. Andrew Egner, and an accomplice, all employes ran yard, killed a feUow workman brutally, using a pitchfork as the mot partial slaughter. They then isa tho body, with the breath of life extinct, and threw it into one of tonaces. There it was discovered aommglialf consumed by the heat. ' Enquirer's force of reporters at mm was small, and Mr. Hearn, who !w to call, was asked by Mr. Cock- tho descriptive part. Mr. J. B. nnick, now the business agent of 5-rae, the actor, waa Mr. Hearn's rker in that reportorial sensation, made a sensation peculiarly above , fd wl'at the usual newspaper wts of murders create. Mr. Hearn's fiMP1Cturin the howible had a mi ln that murder. He went to '-jof tho tragedy, and not only s sense of eight, feeble as it was, 'Wantage which other reporters of vision did not accept, but he , t0,bear upon the case in hand useof smell and touch. the horrors of the case he was 'in t0 stop close over the charred and, as a consequence, he could ;'P using his olfactories. And yet further. I do not believe Mr. evr approached aa object close v to see it that he did not favor it !r car6s3ing touch. Tho tau yard . as no exception. Mr. Heara .swelled it, touched it. Yea, he uSer into the eyeless socket of 'consumed head, pretty much as ' a habit of thrusting his index lnrgh the button hole of your itohVent back t0 the office, sat 'or k k' or rather la down on ' "e never sat upright while pre-u pre-u .""script and when hU task r he had accomplished a literary lif ?.man ot this generation ex-Icad'o ex-Icad'o Eearn could have drawn shuddering word painting of , had smelled and handled wtira of "The Tan Y'ard Murder." -Vf dated his engagement as a The Euqairer. I began work -.e e?ePartment the dayfoUow-a'i dayfoUow-a'i V? der' he day upon which Mr. cranaster 8troke of descriptive aPPeared in print O. P. Caylok, |