Show A family of six the victims atrocity committed at browning mo alleged to have been committed to still the voice of a dabag inar witness browning Brow nine mo may ll 11 gus meeks wife and lour children were found tiered in a field last evening the murderers are under arrest and a lynching will probably occur meeks and family lived at milan and when coming here yesterday were waylaid the canse of the crime is said to be the fact that sleek was a damaging witness in n anil william P taylor chis meek and others had been indicted on chaides of forgery arson and larceny meeks plead guilty at the last term of court and was sentenced to the pen about a month ago he was pardoned so the state could use him as a witness ill said that had arranged with meeks to give him a wagon to get out of the country before the trial of taylor came up it appears that meeks received a letter from taylor to be ready to go away at 10 last t at midnight two men said to be george and bill cann to the bouse with a wagon meeks and his family got into the wanon and started for browning the details of the crime as near as can be obtained were told by the littin 7 year old girl who was suffering greatly as she recited the story it appears when meeke family and the persons accompanying them reached a point near the school house a short distance from browning they were met by two other inen who were eving in wait aua meeks was first shot mrs meeks jumped out and she was also killed the murderers then took stones and beat the brains out of two of the children and left the other one for dead the murderers then loaded the whole family into the wagon and took them two miles to taylors farm where they were buried under a straw stark at p in abe eldest child her senses and made her way to the residence of mr carter near by the carter family sent a boy to the taylor farm where he found the body of a boy then aaa george taylor who innocently told him of the murder as described by the almost daving child taylor immediately fit arted or browning on horseback got ills brother william and both started up the people of abe neighborhood who placed guards around the straw stack where the dead bodies were found it discovered that a bloody quilt around the bodies wason alre th evident purpose being to cremate the bodies the little ciri recovered to il some of abe parties and upon her evidence sharron mccullough and george howled have been arrested as inthe crime A party of citizens from milan and browning found et the place odthe murder a revolver and atone with which the murderers had ahot and killed the father and mother and beaten the brains out ot the two children and left abe other for dead the taylors have not been apprehended but it is not thought possible that they can escape areat excitement prevails |