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Show HI I I.IM ll...J. I....JI , I I II l. A I10RR1FJLU MURDHR. Paulding, O., Nov. C. A most appall lug murder was dlreovorrd here this morning. Two children olSuiitifl Good ncre found in a brush pits murdered and an attempt liml been iruuU to barn the belles. The girt, ned G, was decapitated nnd dlicniliowled nnd the lioy's throat was rut from enr to onr nnd his head nenrlf mreied from his body, Tho boy is 0 year old The children left home at 10 n. in. yesterday. At :) p. m. a searching party was organised and searched nil night mid 3 o'clock this morning the bodies were found They presented a n most horrible spectacle. Hie news ol thonffulr sprond rapidly nnd soon hundreds hun-dreds nt people wero on the tcene, SheriffStaley wnsamotigtheiiumberaiid arrested Charley Hart, a neighbor's boy, who was nt once suipocud and the people of the neighborhood nr Ilrm In the conviction con-viction of his guilt. Young Hait says lie cannot leader write and does not know his ago and Is very non-ions. When accused ot the crime ho denied It In a nervous wny The bodies were foand within three rods id Yuiing Hart's home and about half a milt (rum the children's home. The little buy's boots were found in thu grass a short distance from the bodies. Their little hands wore tied together with a piece of tarred rope attached to a billot ot wood rctem'olinrf a rough-hewn pump handle. It la thought this will furnish r. definite defin-ite clew if the boy ii guilty. One of thu grouuds ol suspicion js that when the dead bodios wore fonnd tho boy discharged dis-charged his gun nnd ran to his home In uu excited milliner. He wss one ot the (enrchiug party aud nus not far distant when the children were (otiud. |