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Show BROTHER AND SISTER KILLED , BY ROBBERS K STCBENVILLK, O., Mar. 4 '' (CP) Although two negro suspects ,! ire under arrest, authorities today were not convinced tbey had cap-,. cap-,. lured the murderer of Robert Her-l( Her-l( ton, wealthy bachelor farmer and lis alBter, Nettle and posses renewed their search iu the eurroundiug 4111s.' t. The bodies of the Herrons were ,i) found On their farm near here yes-n yes-n terday. Herron was lying in a barn. His head had ben split open - with a mattock. The bloody instru-. instru-. meat was found in the barn. Nettle Herron was hanging from a rope in the. farm house dining room. Authorities Au-thorities say she had ben strangled before being hanged. The house had'been ransacked from Cellar to garret and certain that robbery waB the motive, authorities began searching for a hired man only recently employed by Herron and who disappeared mysteriously before the murders were discovered. Nettle Herron was hanging from the end of a common halter rope, apparently ap-parently procured in the barn after Herron was slain. The rope had been looped over a clother hook. Herron, It is believed, had gone to lock up the barn for the nlgho his assailant or assailants leaping from the darkness and felling him with the mattock. A thoroughly aroused community today awaited capture and Identification Identi-fication of the slayer or slayers, presaging quick and violent punishment punish-ment for those found guilty. |