soooo, people have pretty much always been insane and sadistic?
Debbie Jennings
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From: "Randi Richardson" <gftl(a)bluemarble.net>
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Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 8:44 PM
Subject: [INOWEN] Charles Wolfangle Murdered His Family
Indianapolis (IN) News, July 27, 1899, p. 7.
SLAUGHTERED HIS FAMILY
Bloody Deed of Charles Wolfangle of Denmark, Indiana
He Murders His Wife and Two Daughters with a Hatchet and Then Cuts His Own
Throat
Patricksburg, Ind., July 27-The neighbors of Charles Wolfangle, in the
little village of Denmark, noticed yesterday that the family was not
astir,
and investigation disclosed that a horrible tragedy had been enacted,
presumably during Tuesday night. Wolfangle is well known through Clay
County. He had been noticed acting strangely for several days prior
thereto, and he was found lying on the floor of his home with his throat
cut
from ear to ear. The bodies of his wife and two daughters, ages
respectively eight and twelve years old, were in their beds while a bloody
hatchet nearby and the wounds on their persons showed that they had been
chopped to their death. The position of the body of the elder girl
indicated that she had been aroused before her murder was accomplished,
and
that she had made an effort at resistance, as the bedclothes were tossed
about and the sheet was torn. The mother and other daughter were
evidently
struck while asleep and were rendered helpless with the first blow. A
third
daughter escaped death by absence from home. She is employed in the
family
of Alexander McCullough at Asherville, and last Sunday her father appeared
and ordered her to go home. She reused and appealed to Mr. McCullough for
protection, and he drove Wofangle away. Another daughter was also away
from
home on Sunday last, but her father persuaded her to go with him. It is
the
supposition that he was even then planning to murder the entire family.
The
awful deed has caused profound excitement and horror throughout the entire
neighborhood, but there is a feeling of relief because the murderer took
his
own life.
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