RICHMOND CONSERVATOR
RICHMOND, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1896
vOLUME #-NUMBER 33
HORRIBLE TRIPLE MURDER
MRS JESSIE WINNER AND HER TWO CHILDREN BRUTALLY MURDERED. ONLY RIVALED IN ITS SICKENING DETAILS BY THE MEEKS MURDER IN LINN COUNTY
Coroner’s Jury Ask That the Husband and Father be Held for the Murder.
The crowd with the sheriff after the murder at the Winner cabin
A horrible triple murder, rivaling in all its sickening details that of the Meeks family in Linn county a year or two since, was perpetrated in a small log cabin on the E.T. Watkins farm, eight miles northeast of this city, some time during Monday night.
For four years past Jesse Winner has rented a few acres of land from Mr. Watkins and each year has raised a crop of corn. Winner is a coal miner and when work was to be had in the mines in this city he has accepted it. It has been his custom to work in the mines during the week and go to the farm and spend Sunday with his family. Last Sunday he was out as usual, coming back to town Sunday evening. On Monday he cleaned up his room at Mine No.11, where he had been employed and prepared to go home Tuesday morning to gather his corn. Tuesday morning while he was sitting on the court house fence a messenger arrived in town and brought the startling news that his wife and two children had been murdered.
Click the link just below for a lot more, full details and (warning) very graphic photographs
The chair and the ax used to kill Eva Winner.
In company with a friend he left at once for the scene only to find the report too true.
When the news was brought to town at an early hour Tuesday morning that the wife and two children of Mr. Winner had been murdered and that the body of Mrs. Winner had been mutilated by hogs, intense excitement prevailed and large numbers of people at once left for the scene of the butchery.
When a CONSERVATOR reporter reached the scene a sight met his gaze which can never be effaced from his memory. Lying in the yard on the south side and about 8 feet from the house, was the body of Mrs. Winner, with her head mashed and crushed in a horrible manner. The flesh had been eaten away from one side of her face by hogs and her scalp was torn and lay back upon her neck. Her right eye had escaped the teeth of the hogs and was lying out upon the exposed cheek bone, presenting a most horrifying and revolting spectacle. Within a few feet of the body was a blood-stained ax, which had evidently been used with such fatal effect upon the poor woman. Near her feet was also a rail, upon one end of which was blood and tuft of hair, showing that it, too, had been used.
While the body of Mrs. Winner presented a most horrifying spectacle, there was in the little cabin home a still more horrible and revolting picture-one which made strong men week and caused women to cover their faces and almost go into hysterics. On the bed in the southeast corner of the room in a pool of blood was lying the body of the little three-year-old daughter of Mrs. Winner, cold in death, with a gaping knife wound in the left side of her throat. On the floor just at the edge of the bed lay the baby of the household, a beautiful boy 18 months old, with a deep cut in his throat from which the life blood had run in a crimson stream. Both children looked as though they were sleeping and their deaths had evidently been quick and painless.
After the officers had viewed the bodies, a search of the premises was made for clues which might lead to the apprehension of the assassin, but not a thing could be found. In the house and in the yard were evidences that a terrible struggle had taken place between the dead woman and her assailant. There were splotches of blood all over the floor of the cabin and lying just behind the cook stove on the north side of the room was a broken wooden bottomed chair which had no doubt been used by the murderer. Pieces of the bottom of this chair, covered with blood, were also found in the yard. Everything went to show that the struggle was a terrible one and that the poor woman had fought for her life with the desperation born of despair. The assassin must have been a powerful man, as the blow from the ax had cleft the skull to the depth of the several inches and almost severed the head in two pieces. The blow had evidently been (un-readable from the newspaper) her feet, as the opening in her skull was wider at the top than at the bottom and shows that the blow was a downward one.
WARNING- before you click on image, this is Gruesome- bodies of Eva and the two babies at the morgue
DISCOVERY OF THE MURDER
M.D. Street, who lives about an eighth of a mile east of the cabin occupied by the Winners, was the first one to discover that a foul crime had been committed. About 7 o’clock on Tuesday morning he was going by the cabin on an errand, when his attention was attracted by the strange actions of an eight-year-old deaf and dumb girl. Going to the fence he looked over and saw some hogs worrying over a body in the yard. Quickly clearing the fence he saw that the body was that of a woman in her night clothes. He then drove the hogs away and at once gave the alarm to other neighbors, and when they arrived and entered the house they discovered that the two young children had also been murdered. A messenger was at once sent to town to notify the officers and they arrived on the scene as soon as possible.
Acting coroner Baber summoned a jury composed of the following named gentlemen and proceeded to hold an inquest; I.C. Hill, James B. Duvall, Daniel L. Settle, J.M. Reynolds, F.V. Wright and S.M. Asbury.
Drs. C.B.Shotwell and R.L. Hamilton had made a critical examination of the bodies and were the first witnesses examined. They of course knew nothing of the murder and could only testify as to the fatal character of the wounds found upon the persons of the victims. A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE BODY OF Mrs. Winner had been made and the physicians were confident that if the murderer had attempted to outrage the poor woman he had not succeeded.
Mrs. Hankins, wife of the superintendent of the county poor farm, said that some time before midnight on Monday she heard three screams but supposing they came from some of the inmates of the poor house she paid no attention to them. * She is now confident that the cries were made by Mrs. Winner. The poor house is fully a half mile west of the scene of the murder.
The family of M.D. Street are the nearest neighbors and live about 500 yards east of the Winner cabin, but they did not hear any noises. A Negro family living about a quarter of a mile northwest of the cabin did not hear any disturbance during the night and knew nothing of the murder until 8 o’clock Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Margaret Smallwood stated that Mrs. Winner was at her house Monday and stayed until some time in the afternoon. Just before leaving Mrs. Smallwood asked her if she was not afraid to stay in the cabin with only her children. She stated that she was not, and said that on Sunday night some one was prowling around the house but had been frightened away.
All the neighbor women who were at the cabin on Tuesday stated that Mrs. Winner was a most excellent woman. She was at all times very quiet and seemed to be bowed down by some secret sorrow. She was never communicative, but during her residence in the neighborhood it had been learned that she came of a good family near Hicksville, Ohio, and that she had been married before she met Winner. The eight-year0old deaf and dumb girl was the fruit of this first marriage. Her parents had opposed her marriage to Winner and she had eloped with him. Pictures of the dead woman taken a few years ago by a Hicksville, Ohio, photographer shows that she was unusually attractive and in her youth must have been something of a beauty.
The motive of the triple murder is at present a mystery. It could not have been robbery, for there was absolutely nothing in the cabin to tempt. …..the furniture in the cabin was a table, a bed, a cook stove and two or three old chairs. There was no food to be found in the house on Tuesday. If rape was the aim of the assassin he did not accomplish his purpose. One theory advanded (sic) is that the woman’s first husband had learned of her whereabouts and had committed the crime out of revenge. Color is lent to this theory by the fact that the deaf and dumb child escaped. It is stated that she is heir to a large estate in Ohio. It was rumored yesterday that the woman’s first husband had recently been seen here, but this could not be verified.
WINNER IN CUSTODY
After hearing the evidence of several witnesses the coroner’s jury adjourned without bringing in a verdict, but recommended that Winner, the husband of the dead woman, be held pending further investigation. This was done and he was brought to town and placed in jail Tuesday night.
The little deaf and dumb girl was also brought to town and an effort was made by several deaf mutes to see if she could tell anything of the crime, but as she is uneducated and unable to converse in the sign language, this attempt was futile. She evidently knows something of the way in which the crime was committed as on Tuesday morning she tried to tell Mrs. Hankins by motions how it was done. She usually slept upstairs in the cabin on a pallet, but on Tuesday morning there was a pillow at the foot of the bed and an indention in the bed as though, she had slept there. Neighbors stated that when Winner was away she always slept in the bed with her mother. A strange feature of the case is that while the murdered members of the family were in their night clothes, …… the little girl was fully dressed…….
THE FIRST ARRESTS **
The coroner’s inquest went on for two days with very little decided except that Eva and her children had been murdered with no apparent motive.
Following the first session on Tuesday, the jury recommended that Winner be held ‘pending further investigation” At the end of the next day’s session, it asked that he be held for the crime and information filed against him.
Also, on that second day, a warrant was sworn out for the arrest of Lon Lackey, described by the Conservator as a “bosom friend and associate of Jesse Winner.” That night, Lackey was arrested and joined Winner in the local jail.
If transcripts of the coroner’s inquest still exist, their whereabouts are unknown.
The coroner reported Winner learned of the awful news while sitting on the courthouse fence. (The courthouse was then located on South College Street) He went to the scene, the reporter said, but obviously and strikingly missing from the news story is a description of Winner’s shock. A reporter who gave a virtually every horrible detail imaginable would certainly not have missed giving a graphic description of the husband’s and father’s anguish.
Nelson was not officially implicated at that time, but undoubtedly was suspect. He would not be arrested until December. However, both Harry England *** and Earl Johnson recalled that “Nelson hid out in the mines, evading the law”
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RICHMOND CONSERVATOR
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12, 1896
Monday morning at 10 o’clock was the time set for the preliminary hearing of Jesse Winner and Lou Lackey, who are charged with the murder of Mrs. Winner and her two children on the 16th of October. The preliminary was to be had before James Ridgell, J.P and when the hour for the trial arrived M.M. Bogie and James E. Ball, attorneys for Winner and Lackey, appeared for their clients and waived the right of a preliminary hearing and asked that the matter go over for investigation by the grand jury and the cases were accordingly continued and the prisoners remanded to jail.
It was first reported that the matter had only been laid over until 1 o’clock in the afternoon, but when it became generally known that there would be no preliminary hearing the people who had come in from the country to hear the trial were incensed and assembled about the jail and demanded that the prisoners be brought out and given a trial at once. When told that that could and would not be done there was much muttering and confusion and some very harsh things said and for a while it looked as if there might be trouble. Sheriff Holman had summoned fifteen or twenty reliable men as deputies and any attempt at violence would have met with determined resistance. Col. J. C. Brown, Sheriff Holman and Maj. R.J. Williams all had a word to say to the crowd advising that the law be allowed to take its course and finally Mr. John Sharp, a brother of the murdered woman, came forward and made a similar request, and soon the crowd dispersed, and by sundown but few country people remained on our streets. It was rumored that they would return at night with renewed force and determination and many thought trouble would flow, but night came and no further demonstration or attempt was made to get the prisoners. It is not likely that anything further will be done before the February term of the circuit court.
RICHMOND CONSERVATOR
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1896
LACKED COURAGE
A Mob of Over One Hundred Men Assembled about the County Jail Ostensibly to Have a
Lynching Bee, but for Want of a Leader With Nerve, Lost Their Courage and.
Disbaded (sic)
Last Friday night a mob of over one hundred men came to town, it is presumed for the purpose of lynching Jesse Winner and Lon Lackey who were confined in the county jail charged with the murder of Mrs. Winner and her two children. The excitement of a few days ago had died down, and no one was expecting any unusual demonstrations. On Friday night, however, about 2 o’clock Sheriff Holman and family were awakened by noises about the jail and upon investigation found that the jail was surrounded by men and that some of the party were already inside the jail building. Upon being asked their mission the sheriff was informed that Winner and Lackey were wanted. The keys to the jail were demanded, but the mob was told that Deputy Sheriff Green had the keys. Quite a number went to Mr. Green’s house in the northeastern part of the city, where they learned that Mr. Green had gone to the country. They returned to the jail and made known the result of their visit, and after considerable talking among themselves, they left the premises and by morning there was not a trace of who they were or where they went. One thing is evident, that the crowd assembled for the purpose of having a lynching bee, but after getting to town did not have the nerve to put into execution the work mapped out. The absence of a bold, determined, fearless leader is the only reason why Winner and Lackey were not taken from the country jail, and summarily dealt with, and the fact of not securing the jail keys would have amounted to nothing with men who meant business. Our advice to would be mobbers is to let the law take its course.
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WINNER AND LACKEY TAKEN TO LEXINGTON
Owing to numerous threats having been made and the almost continuous appearance of squads of men in town almost every night, who were seemingly bent upon lynching Jesse Winner and Lon Lackey, incarcerated in the jail at this place, charged with the murder of Mrs. Winner and her two children, Winner and Lackey were quietly slipped out of jail by Sheriff-elect Richard K. Green, at an early hour Wednesday morning and taken across the river to Lexington, where they were locked up in the Lafayette county jail for safe keeping. All Tuesday night squads of men were on the streets and in the neighborhood of the jail, but the officers were on the alert, staying up all night to prevent surprises, and this morning it was deemed prudent to remove the prisoners. The action of the officials is to be commended, as Ray County could not afford to have the stigma of a lynching upon her fair name.
RICHMOND CONSERVATOR
DECEMBER 10, 1896
WINNER AND NELSON LYNCHED
Old, loosely woven rope caused the men to die slowly
Taken From the Lexington Jail Sunday Night, Brought
Across the River and Swung Up Side by Side
On a Burr Oak Limb at Jack’s Landing- Henrietta, Missouri
GREAT CROWDS VISIT THE SCENE OF THE HANGING
The oars used in the skiff that brought Winner and Nelson across the river to the lynch mob. (Oars at the Ray County Museum on display)
The General Impression Prevails that the Heinousness of the Crime Justified the Hanging.
Jesse Winner and James Nelson, charged with the murder of Mrs. Winner and her two children, and who were taken to the Lafayette county jail to guard them against lynching, were taken from the jail at Lexington Sunday night by an armed mob, brought across the river and hanged side by side on the limb of a burr oak tree, a few feet from the road and about a quarter of a mile from the river on the road leading from Lexington to the Junction.
The news of the lynching reached this place early Monday morning and every available vehicle was quickly filled and a large number of our people went to the scene of the hanging. There was a large crowd already assembled when the writer arrived, and the spectacle which greeted us presented a most gruesome sight. There suspended from a limb a little larger than a man’s arm, with their faces toward the road, were the lifeless bodies of Jesse Winner and James Nelson. The hands of both men were securely bound behind them. Nelson was hanging nearest the road and Winner just back of him. The knot on the rope around Nelson’s neck rested immediately upon the joint of the spinal column where it joins the head, forcing his head forward. His feet were resting upon the ground. The knot in the noose around Winner’s neck pressed against the jugular vein under the left ear, his knees were bent and his toes resting upon the ground which exhibited signs of a severe struggle before death ensued from strangulation. The expression on the faces of the men showed that they must have died horrible deaths. The bodies remained hanging where they died until about noon and during this time hundreds of people from both sides of the river visited the scent to view the ghastly sight, among them a number of the ‘gentler sex’ drawn there by a morbid curiosity. The ropes used were evidently taken from halters, one of them being spliced with a smaller rope. Pieces of the tree upon which the men were hung were broken off and taken away as mementos, while the pieces of rope commanded a premium. About noon County Coroner Dove arrived and had the bodies out down and carried to Lexington Junction , where a jury composed of the following named citizens was duly empanelled and sworn; G.W. Duncan, Jas,. Couch, William Douglass, A.E. Williams, W.H. Teagarden and J.W. Hedrick. The first witness was Chas. Hedrick, who being sworn testified as follow: At 7:30 this morning I heard that two men had been hung. George Crispin and wife and I went down to the scene and saw two men hanging. I did not know them. Dave Heathman of Lexington and Preston Smith were the only persons present that I knew. We only staid (sic) a few minutes.
Clark McGaugh testified: Came down town at 67:30 and went to the saloon. Denny Carver told me that two men had been hung about a half mile this side of the river. Then went home and got breakfast and returned to town and met the train from the river. Mr. Mackin, the Santa Fe agent, had been to the river on the train and had seen the two men hanging. I asked him about it and he told me and I started in a wagon to go down, but got down and went on a hand car. When we got there we found two men hanging, with 30 or 40 men standing around. Did not hear any surmises as to who had lynched the men. Came back home on the Lexington transfer.
Lou Mitchell, sworn, said : Came to the place of hanging between 9 and 10 o’clock. The two men now lying before me were hanging by their necks from a tree. One of them, I had seen before, the other I did not know. The one I knew was Winner. Saw him at Abe Endsley’s in the spring. Saw nothing which would cast suspicion on any one. Was told of the hanging first at James Couch’s.
The coroner’s jury returned a verdict which in substance is as follows:
We the jury fined that Jesse Winner and James Nelson, whose bodies now lay before us came to their death by hanging, at the hands of persons to the jury unknown.
At the inquest the following articles were found in the pockets of Jesse Winner: A brass watch and chain, a funeral card, piece of tobacco, handkerchief, pocket-book containing 15 cents, smoking tobacco, a letter and a memorandum book. After the inquest the bodies were brought to this city and placed in the circuit court room at the courthouse. Shortly afterwards Mr. Harvey Nelson and wife, father and mother of James Nelson, who had but a short time before learned the sad fate of their son, called at the courthouse and asked that the body be turned over to them, which request was granted, and they took it to Nelson’s home in the western part of town, from whence the remains were taken to New Garden cemetery in the western part of the county Wednesday for burial. The body of Winner remained in the court house until Tuesday afternoon, when it was taken to the county poor farm and buried*- thus tragically ends the lives of five persons within about five weeks. The general impression prevails that if Winner and Nelson were guilty of the terrible crime with which they were charged, and there seems to be but little doubt of their guilt, that while lynch law is always to be deplored, the heinous crime justified the tragic end of those who committed it.
Lon Lackey, who was arrested at the same time Winner was, and was taken with him to the Lexington jail, was brought back here Saturday, the impression having prevailed that when confronted with the affidavit of Maggie Catron who stated upon her oath that Lon Lackey told her that he (Lackey), Jesse Winner and James Nelson went out to the Winner home on Monday night, October 25th, and that Jesse Winner murdered his wife, that James Nelson cut the throats of the two children, while he held the horses, he would make a full confession, but he stubbornly denied the statement of Maggie Catron, and when confronted by her, denounced her affidavit as false. Lackey was taken back to the jail at Lexington Monday morning by sheriff-elect R. K. Green, passing within a few feet of where Winner and Nelson were hanging. Lackey was the first to recognize the faces of the dead men, and as he did so he caught Green by the arm completely unnerved and said: “For God’s sake, drive on,” which request Green was not slow to comply with, as the sight startled him almost as much as it did Lackey and he lost not time in getting this prisoner safely across the river and in jail, and later on, accompanied by sheriff-elect Fulkerson, of Lafayette county, took Lackey to the jail at Kansas City, where he will be kept until brought here to answer to the charge against him at the February term of the circuit court.
HOW THEY WERE TAKEN FROM JAIL
From the Lexington papers we learn that the mob arrived at Lexington about 12 o’clock Sunday night, and were so quiet in their action that they had secured the outside guards before they knew what was going on. They then entered the jail and demanded the keys of jailor Goode, who refused to give them up. They threatened to kill him unless he surrendered the keys, and he told them that they would have to kill him, as he would not give them up. The mob was prepared for this as they had with them all kinds of tools and an ample supply of dynamite, which they declared they would use. The lock was broken from the door, the men securely bound and taken from the jail; the river was re-crossed at 1:30. The men composing the mob made no effort to conceal their identity, and it is said many of them could be easily recognized. It is also stated that the overcoat worn by the leader of the mob was left in the jail and is now in the possession of the authorities of Lafayette County. The Lexington special to the Kansas City Times Says:
“Prosecuting Attorney William Aull says: ‘I have evidence sufficient to identify some of the members of the mob, and have the names of many others, also property belonging to some of them. If it is the last act of my life, I expect to bring the perpetrators to justice, and shall request the assistance of the attorney general and all the power that the state can lead to see that such conspiracies against the law are punished and the conspirators brought to justice. They treated one officer like a brute, and showed us little regard for law as they claim had the alleged murderers they were seeking. Had they come Saturday night some of them would now be in the hands of the undertaker or in the Lafayette county jail. The officers did their full duty, but were helpless under the circumstances’”.
Mr. Aull would no doubt be fully justified in trying to find out who composed the mob and prosecute them, but he will find it an uphill business, as it will be no trouble to prove that every citizen of Ray County was at home and in bed while the mob was in Lexington. Nobody on this side of the river has lost any property- Mr. Aull is on a cold trail.
Maggie Catron was visited on Monday afternoon and was found to be greatly excited over the hanging, and after much persuasion told the flowing story of her connection with the murder:
“My knowledge has been mostly obtained from Lon Lackey since the murder was committed. On the night following the preliminary trial here I stayed at my brother’s home, and Lackey came down to see me. I asked him what he knew of the murder, and he said he guessed he knew all about it. He said on the night of the murder Winner and Nelson asked him if he didn’t want to make a moonlight trip out north of town, to which he answered yes. He (Lackey) said they drove to the gate leading to the Winner’s home, when the latter remarked that, as he was so close to home, he believed he would get out and stay, whereupon Nelson also got out and told Lackey to hold the horses until he came back. They were gone quite a while, when came back, got in the buggy and started home. Then it was that Nelson spoke up and told Lackey what had been done, and made him swear to keep silent. I do not know anything directly, only what Lackey has told me”
During the interview the woman was extremely nervous and was frequently startled by slight noises and seemed to be continually looking for someone, and upon being asked who she was expecting, said that she had been frequently told she would be lynched by nelson’s friends, and that she had sent for sheriff Holman to give her protection.
It is reported that the Catron woman, when asked if she knew of any motive the men could have had for the murder, replied: “one day Winner and his wife quarreled and Jesse knocked his wife down. She arose and told him if he did not treat her better she would tell something that would lay him and others of his kind in their graves. I suppose she was referring to the murder of old man Clark up at Excelsior Springs.”
Winner was 28 years of age and Nelson29. Nelson had a wife and two children. Both were coal miners working at the mines at this place.
Harvey Nelson, father of James, was born in Alabama in 1845, and came to Missouri when quite small. He married Artela Franklin Dickey, daughter of George Dickey, Esq. They are good law abiding citizens highly esteemed by their neighbors. The widow of James Nelson is the daughter of the late Robert Corkendale, and a grand-daughter of William Corkendale, Sen.
Everything is quiet again, but when Lon Lackey is brought back here for trial, we confidently expect the excitement to again reach the boiling point, but it is pretty sad to say that sheriff Green will prevent any further violence from mobs, as the people of Ray county are law abiding and peaceable and will insist that the law be permitted to take its course.
Addendum (THE LYNCHING)
Notice
Since the lynching of Winner and Nelson it has been stated that they made a confession before being hanged, and it has also been stated that they did not make a confession. For the satisfaction of the pubic we would be glad if some one who knows for a certainty whether they did or did not make a confession to drop the CONSERVATOR an anonymous letter giving the full facts. This can be done with all secrecy and with perfect safety. Many persons have asked us to make this request so that the public may know the facts in the matter.
Lon Lackey was tried and acquitted in the Courts in Kansas City, MIssouri. Lack of evidence being the reason for acquittal.
After some years roving, he ended up back in Richmond where he lived in a boarding house for some years on East Main street. Of course, having the reputation he had, he was unemployable and soon died of medical complications. It was said he never spoke about that night.
The Richmond News
July 17, 1979 **
THE VICTIMS
Eva Winner had come to Ray County with her husband Jesse, from Hicksville, Ohio. Just why they settled here is not know-they had no relative, business or other ties to the area.
It was reported in the newspapers of the day that she had been of a good and influential family in Ohio. Some reports alluded to her past wealth. Whether that is true or not is questionable, but it was known that she had fallen from her family’s favor after eloping with Winner.
She had been married before and inference was that she had either divorced her first husband or, simply, left him.
She brought with her to Missouri the fruit of that first marriage, the deaf and dumb child, Goldie Riser, who was eight years old in 1896.
Two children had been born to the marriage with Winner and was said that Eva was expecting another child at the time of her death. In fact, also, has not been authenticated by documents or printed accounts of the time.
THE MURDER SCENE
The small one-room log cabin sat half-way up a sloping hill, on a grassy expanse of prairie meadow which was slowly, surely, feeling the cut of the plow.
Undoubtedly, it was an early pioneer cabin. There was a well nearby and a road that wound from the houses on east, westward to meet the present-day Route B.
Situated on land owned by W.T. Watkins, an early day resident with large land holdings, there is no way of proving, with unalterable accuracy, the cabin’s exact location today. However, evidence is strong for a particular site which straddles a modern-day fence row on property now owned by J.W. and Glen McBee, about eight miles northeast of Richmond.
The well has been filled in; the road turned to cropland. The cabin no longer stands.
But the elder Mr. McBee recalls a small log structure that once sat on the site. All that remains are some large flat stones, which suggest a foundation, since such stones are not found in the soil of the area.
The stones do match, however, those in an old quarry located within hauling distance of the site, and which were often used by early residents for building.
** This information was included in the article written by Mary Ann Lowery for the Richmond News, July 17-July 19th, 1979. Mary Ann also credits the help of several residents in helping with information and research including:
John Crouch, Mr. England who donated the oars from the boat to Lexington to the Ray County Museum and peaked the interest of the writer, Hugh Meadows, Wilbur Estes who offered the use of old copies of county newspapers of the time, J.W. and Glen McBee, and Kerry Woods who provided artwork for her series.
THE SURVIVOR-
ELEVEN YEAR OLD GOLDIE RISER
Daughter of Eva, step-daughter of Jesse Winner. Eleven years old at the time of the murcher
Goldie Riser- Approx. 12 Years old
Goldie was taken in by the family of the Heisingers and then by the Sniders.
She was sent to the Fulton School for the deaf to help her in communication and learn sign.
Goldie’s Mother, Eva, had family in Hicksville, Ohio.
A letter was received by James Wright, brother of Eva Winner,
Obit of Goldie Riser
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