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Show BRUTAL CRIME IN SOUTH. Grewsome Spectacle Meets Eyes of Lad Seeking Christmas Gifts. Minden, La. Neighbors, summoned by a half-dressed little -boy of 7, ran to the home of Jo;.n N. Reeves near here early Monday to find that murderers murder-ers had turned the house into a slaughter pen. Reeves and his wife were dead, the man's skull crushed by an ax and the woman with a bullet hole through her head. An 11-year-old boy, still clutching in his arms his 15-months-old brother, and another of 5, were battered and chopped from ax strokes. The children were carried to a hospital hos-pital at Shreveport, where the oldest died. Their brother, who gave the alarm, escaped because he was sleeping sleep-ing in the attic. He had come down early in the morning to look for his Christmas presents when he saw what sent him terror-stricken to the next farm house. Three negroes have been arersted, charged with the crime. |