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About The Hustler of Rome. (Rome, Ga.) 1891-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1896)
SIXTH YEAR. W. J.vC6rsfofi the Retail Grocer, sells Warters Rome Made Cigars. Best in the Market. I FIEND! Wes This Inhuman Husband ’' and, Father., IB’ ' _i - • ■SLEW 5 AND SUICIDED II It"' “ Parkes! Actßecoidedan Histor* of Georgia Crime helpless wo NUN fiND BABES Butchered by The Whiskey Crazed wretch who should Have been their Loving Protector, Who The Fiend Was. Royston, Ga., July £B.— A crime bloodier than'the Woolfolk mur der, more appalli. g than the mon strous deed of Holmes, was com mitted in Madison county, five miles south of this place and be tween Elberton and Toccoa late Tuesday Pave Berryinan, "* a well-known faruner, piurdered his Wltd/' shot do-vn his four childrep .and blew’dut liis own brains. T lie fI - ,e > p ira th!-! criminal annals of the, stale. I bust what .caused' tbetavful dee 1 is .ot known. ajx.l -perhaps will never be, as no eya witness lives to tell the story .But it is sup posed that Berryman, inflamed w'itli intoxicants and enraged by the dividing of his-wi-H Übeeause of his atteqU/ms to. -another w oman, became suddenly insane and- -deci ded to annihilate his whole family How well he succeeded, the fro it rWnr <.fUfF at the loot of-the testi fies. “ ' ' ' ' ’ VVhen tin ue giihors rushi-d in after the awful discovery wsg-jnade three of the Jittle chikjreji were iuUnd -in. one sice qf the room pifed in a mass, their headsjslpyytl Jxwm their bodies. A few lay the lacerated qorpsyi •.:£ the mother and across het*breast was tile body of her inTant, its baby fingers clutching in death ids-mother's hair, matted with gore? ' On tlie bed irea' 1 -by vn found the body of Berryman. After kill-" ing his family, he bad deliberately I’eioided his gun, walked across th i< iin, viewed the r°sult of his horrible work, >,-t dawn upon, the fif’d and emptied the contents of le'l-r-ech loading gun into his own head'.' Lie discovery was made by a secant girl, who was habit of milking for the Berryman fami ly late every afternoon It was the custom of one these little tots to assisther in these duties-. Missing him yesterday uftm-daiy afternoon, she d-cidesl to go up te the house to find the cause of his absence. 1'• horrible spectacle met her K !l ’" as she entered the doorway. •Fist inside of the front room "as a pool of blood, and spattered IV " the four walls were the brains 1)1 te murdered family. Appalled thp sickening sight, stunned b't'i’tw- ,n-finr'i“n* ‘at ft scene She < 'iii!d scarcely realize.a« true, th* , • r wmy t > tl ' n- - il’t it lmii><‘ and told of the horrible dis cov- ry she .had- made. Ihe ailnrnn tvaa given . Hundreds o- m'all sisctToil’s’ bf . .i-ver before was slich -it ’* !“»•-•<-> 1 in north Geoigfa. * sri-n to thd scends i fin nd stood biiek, Hesitating I ; d‘r the cottasePWoiiiieh sf >o about wringing their hands ’ainl "eeping hysterically. The r'tige of ’he people ran high a t Vh£. awful deed, bat' these was” tfiiy in which to vent their Till UISTI.IK OF ROME. one mentioned the of the woman with whom it was supposed Btrry- hud bye'i-lutumU*,.. and lie i cause of which intimacy it was I thought he had quarreled with his i wife. 1 Ihe crowd cnuzht the name and purged in the ti i rPQtioii of R iystoii, I hu!j cooler h w *ds pretailed and an j additional horror averted. , I ’ The remains of trio unfortunate i! f imily.we.re r«)lmv*d' to Rbyston. I 1 housands who had go no to. th w , ' frc-me of si afightuj lined the road <!way: betweiyv B-rtyrtumM •pttagb and the town. As the two wagons adeu with coffins passed through the drizzling r tin, i h» people s’ood aside excitedly discussing tn» '■an?- ol the ■ vA- . berryman’b past li*r. Dave Berryman was a man well known in this section. He had I many relatives who are prominent in Madison county and belonged to a family o’s six brothers antrsix i sisters. His fatner is one of the . oldest citizens of this county, and qeither to himynor to his aged ' wife'hatr the n.ws ' of the' crime b . been made ktiewn. Berryman was a man of fine physique, and rather good look inc. IHe was thirty-eight years of age, 'ttrtti h:ki Veen iihtrried twice', wile Was . Miss quite a good looking young ludy, ’diHtglifer of the-fofnicr ttheltff of Al.1: -■ >i> i- i;nt y. ' In’ISSV she Retired it diyoTce upod the‘grMinds'dt c'rilMty On I [the same day; the. divurca was i granted Berryman-Jed to ths altar ! M.issj H-qII .daughter of ». farmer I!.mow located in Tundnle, r-rimith r 1 c untv, Tex. Miss HaH was a ■ voting lady of quiet demeamot; and for several years the- oouphl se.Qmed to live happily together.! Berryman worked [industriously) land was regarded, as.a. citizen-, of 'repute. Several years-ago he began ! to <lrink heavily, and since, thm 1 Mias kept up a dissipated career. I V.'hen i nd<u' the influence of wh s kr he seemed crazed and was dis-s *i■ • . fivql.t to control. ■ WANTED TO KILL THEM ALL. - Just em'e yeaY ago a'wifA o f one of the neighbors dropped in to s< e MtS. Berryman. She Knocked up- ( om the dour several times without s getting a response, but finally Ber . I rvmai) came to the floor,' reeling i -■. Last summerone of our grand .< children' was sick with a sevfere r bbtvel trouble. Our doctors ii.qi i edios had failori, then we j Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and . Diarrhoea Remedy, which gave [' very speedy relief. We regard it , as the best me..icine ever put on I the market for bowel complaints. ,j—Mrs. E. G. Gregory. Freder lickstown, Mo. This certainly is i the best medicine ever put on the . marke* f„r dysentery, summer cmnplamt, col.ic and cholera in- Tantum in children. It never tail to give prompt ndief when usedin reasonable time and the plain printed are followed. ■ Many nmthres have expressed their sincere gratit.udu for, thy, cures it , ..bus effected. Em’ sale by Lowry Bro thtrs.. Druggists Rome. 1 —-J—r- ■ exglrsion to texas and I ' On'JuTy L’T.'lSOa.Y 1 the’ South -1 ern wili self toiin'd trim tickets to I points in Arkansas, lyxas and In-. ’ dian Territory. 'Choice of roiilys, either via, Chattanooga Mepiphis,. ' Birmingham and M-miphts or.via. meridian, Shreveport,tnr < >i'- II kaiis/ For full, i,.uformati.<m oi LtVs and 'time LllT- mil at city ‘ olice, No. 14 Aunsi -mg 7 uL - address’ 1 5 s ' f C. A. Benscote . .-F I A. G. PA. J■A'- A; i f 'Ch- .sttan-« < p I,J r , i 1 ! .o’ ‘ i t ample line of neck ware choice e oc. ROME GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING JUL* 23 1896 I under th® influence of whiskey. He carried a shotgun in his hand, and Mwwd tif»rved up to a high rage. The woman screamed and start ed to leave. Beiryman called her back and demanded to know her ihisslon. She informed him that «he <Jaine ; to call upon • Ins wife. , “A’ou can see her,!’ he replied, ‘*but you must make it short, for, tlm has orfly five nii'nutes to live.’’ Thp, woman, was , horrified.. Guarded by Berryman, who held* liis *Mbtgiln to Iris shoulder, she entered the room and found Mrs. Berryman seated in a large rock ing chair in the middle of the room, surrounded by her little ~u. “You see I put them in a circle.” muttered Berryman with a drunk en oath, “so I can get a good s ot at the whole bunch. I’m goin; to kill ’em out, and I’ll make a clean job of it. ” - ’ •*- . What deterred Beiryman from his sanguiffary purpose then is not known." The woman made her es cape and informed the neighbors of what had happened. They ar rived in time to quiet the drunken rage of the mad man and rescue his family. THE MVL-TI Jlt RIftfRERIAT blll'HCH. • Just before the, tragedy Tues day B;rryma.i was at a service at Muil chirreb, he 're- mained for some time. Upon iais way home he etdpped by alsbingte mill, where it is said he loaded up with a bountiful supply of corn whisky. He went from the mill immedi ately home, and it is supposed itatj just upon his arrival tbe crime was committed. What was dune before the deed i i . ■ - <-eems to have a repetition of the scene ot last year. Berryman c “Ij"?' 1 liis wife and children about him. The oldest child was just seven years old and the youngest an 11 - fant of seven months, which the mother vat nurs ng at her Urias . The gun used was a breech-loac- ' r-r, and only one barrel could be! tired. Six were fired, an! be tween each be deliberately .drew <ut the cartridge and inserted a u new load before blowing out thw brains of the uwxt victim. After Berryman had killed his wife and four children, and before he put the load into his own head, it appears that he waited for some r . i• time. TIE HEARD Tills SHUTS. Seaborn Ginn, a nephew of Ber ryman, was at work about a quar ter of a mile away .He heard the report of the gun when Beiryman killed his family, but says he thought nothing <»f it, as His uncle w- s in the habit ot shooting about his house. Soon afterwards Ginn passed l he house on his way home . Berry man was in the door holding the smoking gun above his head. ••1 have sent my wife and chil dren away,” he cried “come in and watch me finish up the work.” j Ginn laui.hed and passed on. U--i j di Ur 1 j If your M atch stops or kJ fails to run .satisfactorily A/ have it repaired— I THE BEST tag thought it was one of the custom ary jokes of his uncle. ’ ' FORMER WU E CHIEF MOL’NFR. A strange incident of the trage dy is the attitnde of Berrt man’s first wife, from whom he was di vorced in 1889. She appears to be chief mourn er, ttnd weeps incessantly. As the curious crowd pushed it.- to the bouse of carnage this after noon thia former wife was seated upon the steps convulsed with ■grief, and declaring between her sobs that she had always loved Berryman from the morning of her marriage. This former wi’e refused to be comforted. USED A KNIFE FIRST. An examination of the body of his victims showed that the throat 'of the eldest boy was gashed with the blade of a small knife. It was thought thfit Ferryman began his v- ork of annihil ition with a knife first, but finding it too slow, de cided to rise his gun . FATAL BITES OF COPPERHEADS. Three Members of a Maryland Family Attacked in Bed. Gear Spring, Md», July 23, — Martin Drury h s beep living in the uiuuutaiun above Clear Spring with his wife and two boys in an .old frami hmiee surimiuded by ihuehe , ’,r eke and briers. Last night was warm and the who'e , faiyiiy W"iit into the bti»em«i)t of ifie liuuse to sleep. Tua 1 paren's occu ' if*ed a Ikd and the e'nldreu 6L34 t on.the fl or. At Wa Jc<lltd his father and snid a uu use was bjtting him. Diury lit a lamji and discov ered two snakes criwliug over tfie bo-.rf.onr of tlum wound itself a rou 11 d M alvei' i- mwl* wnd bit the 8 liAoY CARRIAGES! 1 x YOU CAN FIND , X THEM ANY STYLE AND PRICE AT: ■> HANKS FDRHIIORE CO. ' ■ ’ n-; : ; ■' . ' ■ . • 1 We are better prepared to serve you m thio > line than ever before, as we have bought heav j Al' ily and the most magnificent assortment ever brought to the city. 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Both snakes crawled 1 to a hole in tbe.floor and escaped. , When a physician reached tie 1 house, several htuirs later,he foil d 1 all three; victims swollen and sui -1 faring excruciating pain. Walter tenon died and th f’ if little hope tor the recovery ot the other two. Sneers Drove Her io Suicide. New York, J u 1y , 23. —The sneers of friends who believ- Ipd stories about her drove Aubih Kern tn suicide on Sunday. She was a domestic in the family of Paul Gruendler of No. 70 Montrose, Brooklyn, ehe smothered her ii e out with os. Annie came to this country from Germany tour years ago, ami went into the service of tfie Gruendlers. Mrs. Gruendler ordered Annie out of the houae in June 1895, because Mr. Gruendler, as alleged, was too attentive s o her. The girl weul to Ijvf iq a fl if in Maddison street, near Brpadway. Charles Walters,. Mrs. Grmmd er’s brother, o*Led thus- one day found Gruendler th<»rq, and broke pots,and pans on Gruoml iar’s head ID paid a fine pf SSO in the I v m gireet police Court. Mrs Gruendler sued for divorce, nam, ng Aunj» Kern as co-respond ent. The girl went home ’o <’’'l - and the Gr.u®ncllers were reconciled. Auniw return'll from G ermany three months ago, a-nd Mrs.Gru«n.dler took her back. IO CELT'S-A WEEK CHANGE Os Mi | Hon. John J Lean <« Single Gold Skin j.r-x ANDASJN Qartfseehow any “Tt raj) « can Citizen can ,t? and Permit.? nN k . To_ D.qrn in ate Hon. John J. ’.'mtz. .- ost# - neiit democrat htterwy, .>■ . maw - ► S his convereat ion ty • .V»F’ C'it)Sß« dootrfue, ho* is leader oi the gold - ’. ■«?•> ai d is air mi imaio peraerw ■' 4»ii m Pr<-»ideut Cleveland u-hu' give in hi,s yard: , 1 have come averirosn »v JWfe port of'the s'ngl's gnld that es the equ .1 ooinagc and gold at liieritioof u J For mail; moi rhi I ha. ■ Jal ly inves igat'-d a. d d «c- ■' ’• ?%0-- financiai ’<i' ! >iem-im'- v, < the existing-"I - ley o thi -L I have found that nm ‘ y ' ! the arguments ii:-fa or • i r >i-!< i baste for t-hes currency Unp , ted SI alt slid vs been’/ rsdn vv U iashes. » , Were I au.EngijSliniaa, tar-awJ 1 favor gol’d, but "JJ th;; ftrj.-i ■ I’condttions which i Americana persuade •■.’’•e-* | tIwTCTiTe w-nnmy i opposition to the- i st.ndard. and fpr-a det;- ,r 1 lour monetary indep»’»»d9*'«nr • -t? ' 189 l) ns tio-:-- w i■■ •» ! declaration < 'i r' r < . 'o ! dependence in ’ 77C.L You may say r>* my it I Ohio that I make this nwk-a. c.- $»-■ merit rel ur+iFH+y-,- Imtr d— is,' ( for I-,nave argued with ' I silver and with enthusiasm i-. ! vor of gold. I tem! r .a : :-nLa. humble tlfough t'my - paign speeches ...:dda!i: > »•'">■*/»- ’onstrate th'ftt 'tbi er find.thy ; r lands. wo-,th> .e » as they were bi 1873 : „ t ; | hommoii labor ever agn ■ i $2 a day until we have n • Arm on selves from, the tyrni’V it* • L* 1 gdd oligarcTiy
