HORRIBLE TREBLE MURDER.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 650, 19 March 1870, Page 4

HORRIBLE TREBLE MURDER.

With the exception of Probst's butchery at Philadelphia,' the most horrifying slaughter that-has ever occurred in Pennsylvania was committed on the night of the 17th November, at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, in the- small village of Pleasant Grove. Just after dnsk, and between the hours of six and seven o'clock, the dwelling of Mr Oohn Perghtols was entered by two fiends in human shape, and while the family, consisting of JMr Perghtols, his wife, and a boy about' twelve years of age named: Gardner,, were eating their supper, shot Perghtols through the head, killing "him instantly. The boy Gardner was despatchod in the same way, and then they split the wife's : head open with ah axe. The first intimation of the awful slaughter was the discovery of the house being on fire. On repairing to the scene, the appaling spectacle met the gaze of the few neighbors j who entered. There lay the mangled i bodies of the victims, covered with blood, the walls besmeared from : floor to ceiling, j and the brains of the victims oofcing from j their wounds. The murderers, after I perpetrating their horrible crime, covered the dead bodies with bedclothes, and then | set fire to the house to cover up the deed. '(Suspicion at once rested on two men who had been seen loitering about the neighbourhood for some time past. It -was' learned that they took the night train from -this place for the West. Despatches were at once "sent to the station agents, and police all along the Pennsylvania road, and when 'the train arrived at Altoona,.the suspected assassins were arrested, and 'brpught back to this place next morning. Their names are BtadderWerg- and Bohner. On their persons were found 250t1015. of the plunder which prompted the terrible massacre. Bohner has made a partial confession, and aside from this, there is unmistakable evidence of their guilt! It is generally understood that Mr Perghtols was possessed of considerable money — he was an industrious and estimable citizen, and it is with diffi culty. that the people are restrained from lynching the worse : than murderers.