It was only for a moment, but the sleeping child felt The partially covered head of the little girl, Daisy. The curtain Jaside just a trifle a streak*of daylight Himself cannot explain, he crossed the room and pulled Or their mother, but their forms were clearly outlined HeĬould not see the faces of either of the three children
Then he listened and looked withĮager, glittering eyes at his sleeping victims. In a moment his hand was on the door he raised the Sight, awakened in him only a momentary surprise. That, startled by some strange foreboding instinct ofĮvil, uttered a sharp cry, and fluttered away out of He did not think then of anything but theīloody tragedy he was about to enact and even the rab-īit that bounded across his pathway, or the cock thatĬrowed on the limb above his head, or the wild bird Slowly, stealthily, cautiously, like some monster beast Weapon of murderers - and again pushed forward, To do the deed, and a moment later seized an axe - the He thought a moment as to the weapon he should use Startled as other men would have been he was notĪfraid he had had a taste of human blood before. The family would not be awake when he returned. Stole softly out and quietly closed the door lookedĪround to see if He were alone, crept panther-likeĪway, finding the spade, with which he dug the Richards explains very minutely how the deed wasĭone how in the early morning he rose from his bed, In his confession, which we give further on, Killed, one after the other, in the most inhuman man. Just as we have described it, and on the following On the day before the murder, this scene took place Trusting in him, believing him, and loving hirn. With his childish prattle and all three innocents Happy voices - their arms about his neck, their pure,Ĭhildish faces pressed against his own and the littleīoy Jesse clinging about him and filling the room The little girls laughing and making music with their Harlson well,Īnd used to play with them, and romp about the room, As for a 'pang,' as you call it, I didn't feelĪnything only that I had got rid of the crowd." Ready, and I hauled the carcasses out and chucked One blow of the axe settled 'em, oneĪfter the other, and all was over. "Not a d - n bit just as soon have slaughtered so Lessness that was at once strange and terrible, replied : The monster laughed sardonically, and with a care. Regret, or that you was committing a terrible wrong?" " did you not feel conscience-stricken, a pang of awful Son," asked the writer on one occasion, of Richards, "When you killed the three children of Mrs. Was one of the most brutal affairs that ever happened
Give ' tone ' to my life, if I could kill a preacher, you He smiled blandly and said: "It would sort of Newspaper man, and often expressed a wish to "getĪway " with some member of the fraternity, which if Richards^ never had a friendly feeling for any Man went away without so much as a syllable of sen. Not been able to discover but at any rate the Times Just what the grievance was the writer has
Ter in Chicago, he threatened to break the young man When Richards was interviewed by a Times repor. "A preacher and a reporter" was the quick reply. Speaking to the author of this sketch, "and I can't " I have killed nine persons," said the arch-fiend, From this it willĪppear that the playful Stephen was considerable of a Similar crimes committed in various parts of the state,Īnd a cold-blooded murder in Iowa. Sons, the mother and three children, and three other Murder of the Harlson family, consisting of four per. Stephen Dee Richards, who was hanged on the 26thĭay of April, 1879, at Minden, Nebraska, for the mur-ĭer of Peter Anderson, was born in the state of Ohio,Īnd came West in 1876, in search of adventure.īesides killing Anderson, Richards confesses to the ivl'ELVOY, THEĮntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by The State JournalĬompany, of Lincoln, Nebraska, in the. MURDEROUS MISCREANTS AND THEIR* (liET * VĭR. WITH A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE FOLiQWINQ Yq^q' ""J. ORLANDO CASLER, THE MURDERER OF HISĮXECUTED AT MINDEN, NEBRASKA, APRIL 2&?%&fa*r ^p\ OLIVE AND HIS GANG, TRIED AND CONVICTED FOR LYNCHINGĭR. "ĮXECUTED AT MINDEN, NEBRASKA, APRIL 26, 1879. Olive and his gang, tried and convicted for lynching and burning Ketchum and Mitchell.
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Full text of " Life and confession of Stephen Dee Richards, the murderer of nine persons, executed at Minden, Nebraska, Ap: with a brief sketch of the following murderous miscreants and their crimes, the famous I.P.