Steele Scrapbook – May 19, 1885
Note the typo in the title… It should say, “Buried Alive”.
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PETERSBURG, Va., May 19.—The exhumation of the body of Samuel Stokes, of Blacks and Whites, Nottaway county, who was supposed to have been murdered, leads to the belief that he was buried alive, while unconscious from a blow on the head. Henry and Lizzie Stokes, colored, father and mother of the dead man, have been arrested on suspicion of having murdered him. |
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Steele Scrapbook – August 24, 1885
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BUTCHERED BY CHILDREN. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 24.—A special from Talledega says that in that county S. H. McGowan killed and dressed a pig for a barbeque last Friday. His three children, aged 11, 9 and 4, saw the process of butchering the pig. The next day McGowan left home and the children agreed to repeat the process of the day before. Having no pig, the two older children proceeded to butcher the youngest. They cut his throat and hung it up by the heels as the pig had hung, and were proceeding to disembowel it when their mother discovered the horrible tragedy. |
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Steele Scrapbook – November 18, 1885
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SKELETON IN AN ASH BARREL. Officials of Norristown Are Investigating Gruesome Mystery. Special Despatch to “The Press.” Norristown, Nov. 18.—Boys playing on an ash dump at Cherry and Elm Streets this morning found the bones of a hand and arm. They informed John Taylor, a colored coachman, and he made a further search, finding the remainder of the skeleton of an adult person. Coroner McGlathery commenced an investigation, which he will continue with the purpose of unravelling some of the sudden disappearances which have taken place hereabouts. The gruesome find was brought to the city hall and the police are assisting the investigation. |
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February 2, 1892
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FOUND MURDERED NEAR COAL RUN. MT. CARMEL, Pa., Feb. 2.—The dead body of Jacob Blowshas was found here today lying near Coal Run creek. His head was battered into a jelly, and indications point to a horrible murder, which the Coroner is investigating. Blowshas has been missing from his boarding-house since Saturday night. |
From the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair
(The 1892 Morbid Scrapbook)
The Latin Reader – March 27, 1895
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DECAPITATED AFTER BIRTH. No Clue to the Murder Mystery at Daretown. Dartown, N. J., March 27. — The mystery of the head of a negro child found on Sunday is no nearer a solution than yesterday. Prosecutor Acton, with the Coroner, visited Daretown yesterday afternoon and viewed the head and had the search renewed for the remainder of the body, but as yet no success has followed their efforts. The evidence that the child had lived awhile after being born is unmistakable. It is now thought possible that the neck, which it was at first thought had been twisted off, was lacerated by the dog which found it, as a closer examination has given ground for the suspicion that a sharp knife was used to sever a portion of the head from the body. Such a thing as the taking of a human life has never been known in this immediate vicinity. Three miles below here is a negro settlement near Yorktown and marks the spot where 16-year-old Ella Watson was so brutally murdered by a burly negro ten years ago. |
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Steele Scrapbook – May 1, 1885
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A CORPSE IN A TRUNK. THE HORRIBLE DISCOVERY MADE BY A BAGGAGE MASTER. THE REMAINS OF A MAN FOUND PACKED TIGHTLY IN A TRUNK WITH NO CLUE TO THE PERPETRATORS OF THE DEED—IS IT ANOTHER MAXWELL-PRELLER TRAGEDY? PITTSBURG, May 1.—This evening about 6 o’clock, Baggage Master Jenkins at the Union Depot, upon bursting open a trunk which gave out a suspicious odor, was horrified to find therein the body of a man securely bound and in an advanced state of decomposition. The face was badly discolored and bloated, and the stench was so great that it kept at a safe distance the large crowd which quickly gathered. The trunk arrived here from Chicago on the morning express, and was checked 4171, but no person called to claim it. The baggage master noticed a peculiar smell when it was unloaded from the train this morning, but no attention was paid to it until this evening, when the stench became unbearable. After consultation, the railroad officials decided to open it, and the result was the ghastly discovery. The body, in order to get it into the trunk, had been bent almost double. Around the neck, arms and legs was heavy cord about one-eighth of an inch in thickness, which had been drawn so tight that it had cut deep into the flesh. There were no marks of violence and, so far as could be ascertained from an outward examination, the stomach was in a normal condition. The body was that of a laboring man. There was nothing on his person that would furnish any clue to his identity except an International money order in favor of Filippo Caruso, for $23.45. The order was drawn at Chicago on February 24, 1885. The Coroner is holding an investigation. He is of the opinion that the remains were in the trunk at least 36 hours. |
FOLLOW-UP STORY: MAY 7, 1885
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A CORPSE IDENTIFIED. PITTSBURG, May 7.—The body of a man received here in a trunk last week has been positively identified by Francisco Carousa as the remains of his brother. THE MURDERER ARRESTED. NEW YORK, May 7.—Agiostino Jurado, an Italian, was arrested here last night on suspicion of being the murderer of the man found in a trunk at Pittsburg last week. To-day the Chicago baggage master who checked the trunk unhesitatingly picked Jurado out as the man who brought the trunk to the station. The prisoner refused to make any statement but willingly agreed to return to Chicago. |
FOLLOW-UP STORY: MAY 8, 1885
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THE PITTSBURG TRUNK MYSTERY. ARREST OF FIVE SICILIANS IN CHICAGO—PROBABLY THE RIGHT CLUE TO THE CRIME. CHICAGO, May 8.—Augustine Comanto, Antonio Camirito, John Azzeo, and Sylvestine and Bove Ingnazio, were arrested here yesterday for complicity in the murder of Fillipo Caruso, whose corpse was sent to Pittsburg in a trunk. The three last named are the men who lived at the place where the murdered man was last seen, a week ago Thursday. The men are all Sicilians of the lowest class and can speak no English. The men Camirito and Comanto are respectively husband and brother to the woman Victoria Camirito, who has been arrested in New York. These men were arrested on evidence furnished by Mamie Cachett, a little girl who saw Fillipo Caruso enter the house occupied by the three suspects above named, and about an hour afterward saw a man enter the house with a trunk on his shoulder. Her description of this trunk leaves little doubt that it is the one in which the unfortunate Caruso was shipped to Pittsburg. The man Gilardo, arrested in New York a day or two ago, and who followed the trunk and its ghastly contents to Pittsburg, thence continuing his trip East, is regarded by the police here as beyond a doubt one of the men present at the murder of Caruso, if not the instigator of the crime. |
FOLLOW-UP STORY: MAY 11, 1885
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CHICAGO’S TRUNK MYSTERY. JURADO, THE ITALIAN ARRESTED IN NEW YORK, MAKES A CONFESSION. CHICAGO, May 11.—Jurado Augustine, the Sicilian, who was brought back from New York by Detective Bonfield, to answer to the charge of murdering Filippo Caruso, the man who was found dead in a trunk at Pittsburg, is now locked up at the Central Station. Last evening Jurado was taken from his cell and conducted to the private office of Lieutenants Shea and Kipley. Detective Bonfield and Officer Morris, the Indiana policeman who has done most of the work on the case, were also in the room. Morris speaks Italian fluently, and he at once began interpreting for Jurado the questions asked by Shea and Kipley. Then Morris interpreted the answers to Shea, Kipley, and Bonfield in a loud voice. As the examination progressed it became evident some startling developments were to be made. Jurado, after much questioning, said according to the translation by Morris that he took the trunk to the depot, and also that he left New for York [sic] with Victoria Camirito the next day. When asked whether he knew what was in the trunk he hesitated for some time, and at last endeavored to evade the question. Cornered, he defiantly said he did not know what was in the trunk at the time. More pumping followed, and Juardo [sic] broke down and committed himself in several particulars. Morris spoke lower after that, and what he said could not be heard. When Jurado was at last brought out he was evidently very much frightened. The officers were jubilant, and it was said that the “‘Dago had given himself away completely.” None of the detectives would say anything further as to the extent of Jurado’s confession. |
FOLLOW-UP STORY: MAY 12, 1885
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THE TRUNK MYSTERY. THE ITALIAN CARAZO MURDERED FOR HIS MONEY. CHICAGO, May 12.—The three Italians arrested here for alleged participation in the murder of the Italian lemon peddler, Carazo, practically confessed to the perpetration of the murder this afternoon. They in a measure absolve Jurado, who was arrested in New York on his way to Italy. They state that he witnessed the deed, however, and demanded a share of the money taken from Carazo as the price of his silence, and then aided in shipping the body in the trunk to Pittsburg. |
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Steele Scrapbook – September 9, 1885
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Shot His Mother. PITTSBURG, Sept. 9—A peculiarly distressing accident occurred about 7 o’clock this morning at the suburban residence of James T. McIntosh, a well known merchant, located about five miles from the city. A son of Mr. McIntosh, aged about twenty-three years, was in the act of shooting a cat, when his mother stepped in front of the animal. The bullet struck her on the back of the head, and she fell to the ground unconscious. The wound is considered fatal, although she was still living at noon. The young man was crazed with grief, and attempted to commit suicide. |
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February 2, 1892
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SHOT HIS FATHER DEAD. The Old Gentleman Struck His Wife and the Young Man Killed Him. SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb 2.—David Porter, Deputy Collector of Customs at Savannah, was shot and killed by his sixteen-year-old son at one o’clock this morning at Porter’s residence. Porter went home late under the influence of liquor, and being chided by his wife, struck her. His daughter interfered, and then young Porter ran to a bureau, and pulling out a loaded revolver fired at his father. The father turned on the son and they fell on the floor together. In the struggle for the pistol young Porter shot twice again, the last shot penetrating his father’s breast near the heart. He staggered to his feet and into the next room, and fell into a rocking-chair and died. The son ran into the street and called to a neighbor that he had shot his father. He then summoned the family physician, and after that walked to police headquarters and surrendered. |
From the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair
(The 1892 Morbid Scrapbook)
Steele Scrapbook – January 17, 1886
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SAID HE MURDERED HIS FATHER. SAULT STE MARIE, Mich., Jan.17—A year ago Silas Coulter, a wealthy farmer living near here, was murdered. Suspicion pointed to his son William, with whom he had not been on good terms for several years, and the young man was arrested and tried for the killing. The trial resulted in the acquittal of the son. Friday night the son at a revival meeting of the Free Methodists professed religion and confessed that he murdered his father. He was arrested. |
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Steele Scrapbook – September 8, 1885
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Murdered His Brother. WINCHESTER, Va., Sept. 8.—Rowland Reed, a colored boy 13 years of age, residing near Brucetown, this county, was placed in jail here to-day charged with the murder of his brother, only 10 years old. The parents were absent from home when the two boys, it is supposed, quarrelled, when Rowland took a gun loaded with slugs and fired the contents into the stomach of his brother, then dragging the body to a ditch near by covered it over.. |
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