Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-06-27 | Page 3 | Two Families Burned to Death

I 1 t. t 2 H 1 TO DEATH DAT Sh Sheriff riff and Helpers Investigating Investigating gati gating g Mystery Death of ofEl El Eleven len Persons MAYFIELD HAYFIELD K Ky Tune June 27 27 By United Press Press County County officials under the thel l leadership of Sheriff Marion McLain 1 today were vainly endeavoring to pierce the veil of m mystery y which surrounds surrounds sur sur- ur- ur rounds the death of eleven persons persons- two entire families familIes whoso whose charred bodies were found in the smoking ruins of o. o three-room three log house near here yesterday The bodies were those of Ernest Lawrence 31 his wife 25 25 and three ch children dlen Otis Drew 28 his wife wite and three children and Delmar Drew 25 25 brother of Otis Tho The two women were ere sisters Neighbors heard screams and gunshots gunshots gunshots gun gun- shots at midnight Saturday Rushing to the Lawrence home they were driven back by a wall of flame Yesterday Yesterday Yesterday Yes Yes- morning when the ruins had cooled the eleven bodies were found soaked Blood-soaked bits of clothing clung to some of the bodies A pistol was found three chambers discharged Various theories were advanced Sheriff McLain believed an enemy of the family might have committed wholesale slaughter A possibility that one of the persons had suddenly suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly become a demented was plumbed Today oday officers declared themselves baffled Every clue had led to a blank wall The sheriff said today that with every occupant of the house dead with no witnesses discovered and with the failure of every clue the mystery of Hayfields Hayfield's red night may never be solved d. d