Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1916-12-29 | Page 2 | Brutal Crime in South

BRUTAL CRIME IN SOUTH Grew some spectacle meets eyes of lad seeking t gifts 4 Dl Inden la neighbors summoned by a half liala dressed little boy ot of 7 ran to the home of 0 john N reeves near here early monday to find that murderers lad had turned I 1 I 1 t tb bouie into h a slaughter pen reeves and his wife we were re dead the mans skull crushed by an ax and tile the woman with a bullet hole through her head ah 11 year old boy still clutching in his arms his 15 months old brother and another ot of 61 B were battered and chopped from ax strokes the children were carried to a hos hoa pital at shreveport where the oldest died their brother who gave the alarm escaped because he be was sleeping in the attic ile he had come down early in the morning to look tor for his christmas presents when lie he saw what sent ent him terror stricken to tile tha text next tann farm house three negroes have been arc rated charged with the crime