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JACOBS H0USE1 WIPED Whole Family of Six Dutch Fori Neighbors Find Hhikp an 1 Bodies of Father, Mothei Found With Skulls Cm Blood Not Lifted ci Little Mountain, June 28.?The discovery of six bodies in a half burned farm house two miles from Peak discloses what seema to have been wholesale murder committed late last night or early this morning. The family of John D. Jacobs, a well known farmer, has been wiped out. The husband, wife and four children lost their lives. The dead are: John D. Jacobs, 49; Mrs. John D. Jacobs, 40; Miss Ellen Jacobs, 22; Leslie Jacobs, 18; Hugh Jacobs, 15; Orin Jacobs, 12. At 4:30 o'clock this morning neighbors saw the Jacobs' home, in the Dutch Fork section of Lexington county, in flames and hurrying to the scene found the home burning but no evidence of the family. When the fire had spent itself the six charred bodies were found in the ashes and debris. Examination of the bodies disclosed that the skulls of three were crushed and in moving the bodies blood was found under and upon the murdered persons. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs, Miss Jacobs and the youngest son were found on the spring mattresses of their beds, indicating that they were murdered as they slept and that the house was subsequently fired. One of the boys was found beside his mattress and the other in the dining room which ad joins the boy's room. Four guns and an axe were found in the house. One of the guns had shells in both barrels. One shell had been fired while the other was loaded. Magistrate Frick held an inquest A i.. Yir A* nv iiwiii xv jurjr, ui wuivu fT 1U. Wilson of Peak was foreman, could reach no conclusion other than that: "The deceased came to their death at the hands of parties unknown to this jury." Sheriff Miller of Lexington county, was early on the scene and with the assistance of bloodhounds brought with him from the county seat exerted exhausting but unavailing efforts to secure a clue to identity of the murderer. Sheriff Blease came from Newberry to assist in the investigation. No tracks were found anch there is nothing thus far to guide the officers in their search. Mr. Jacobs was a highly respected farmer who had succeded in his- life's work. Mrs. Jacobs before marriage was Miss Elizabeth Counts. The eldest child, Miss Ellen Jacobs, was graduated from Winthrop college in the class of 1910 and for two years had been assistant at the Little Mountain high school. Leslie Jacobs, the 18-year-old son, was a student in the Little Mountain high school, as were the two younger lads. The home was situated in the Dutch Fork section of Lexinsrton county, three miles from Peak and seven miles from Little Mountain. The funeral and interment will take place tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock at the family burying ground on the Jacobs plantation. Traveler Passed Scene of Tragedy. Newberry, June 28.?The news of the horrible death of Mr. and Mrs. John Jacobs and their children near Peak this morning shocked and saddened the people here. Mr. Jacobs has a brother living here, G. Walter -Jacobs, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Hoof, and the family have many relatives and friends in the county. Mrs. Jacobs was a daughter of the late Charley Counts and a granddaughter of George W. Chapman. The daughter, Miss Ellie, spent several years in Newberry, staying with her aunt and attending the city schools. She was a very bright and attractive girl and grew up to be a fine going from the school here to Winthrop college, where she graduated two years ago. For the past two years she has been a teacher in the Little Mountain school. W. A. Brown, a veterinarian, who makes his home at Newberry, saw the fire that burned the Jacob's home but did not know what it was till he reached Newberry this morning. He had been to Augusta and was returning home by way of Columbia, leaving that city about 8 o'clock last night, traveling at night because it was so much cooler than the day. He was riding in his buggy and had his saddle horse and two or three other horse3 with him. When near Peak ???????B BOLD OUT BY DEATH Slain at Home in the k Section. Flame, and After Fjre the r and Four Children are ished?Veil of Fire and >n Brutal Tragedy. this morning he noticed, some distance away on his right, two or three miles, he judged, a light like the light of a large lantern. It was then just 3:45 o'clock. He thought to himself that somebody is getting up very early. As he rode slowly along he watched the light, which seemed to grow larger. In a little while the doctor came to the head of the road that leads down to the Jacobs place. He stopped his buggy, and it was in his mind to mount his saddle horse and hurry down there to see what was the matter but did not. In a little'while what had appeared to be a lantern became a large blaze, spreading very rapidly, and the doctor thought to himself that somebody had lost his barn. He says he would have had time, if he had gone when it first occurred to him, to reach the place before the fire burst into a big blaze. Some miles this side of Peak D. Brown .met G. W. Jacobs and others in an automobile traveling at a rapid rate, but did not learn of the tragedy till he reached Newberry. Mr. Jacobs had been called up by telephone by Joseph Eargle, one of his brother's neighbors, and left at once for the scene. Sheriff Blease left here at 8 o'clock?as soon as he heard of the affair?going in his automobile and carrying R. C. Perry and Richard Burton, reaching the scene in an hour and a half. He returned to Newberry at 12:30 this afternoon. He said that he found a large crowd of persons present, including Sheriff Miller, of Lexington, who was doing all that was possible to get at the facts in the case. Sheriff Blease said bloodhounds were tried, but did not follow any trail. He further said that the first theory that the house was set on fire by lightning was without foundation. Dr. Brown, who saw the fire, as above stated, says there was no lightning at all at the time, nor anywhere near the time. The charred bones of the bodies were found in their respective rooms, on the springs of what had been their beds. There were no tracks, no clue nothing to throw any light on. the terrible tragedy. Mystery Shrouds Jacobs' Tragedy. Peak, June 29.?The death of John O. Jacobs, his wife and four children, disclosed when their home was discovered in flames early Saturds morning is a mystery that will never be solved. A day of calm investigation following the discovery of the awful tragedy has shown only that human hands and not lightning bolt or a chance tongue of flame resulted in the sudden death of six persons as they slept in their home in the rich Dutch Fork section of Lexington county, five miles from Peak. Only two chimneys and a pile of ashes and debris represent today what was Friday evening the substantial home of a prosperous planter. The charred remains of a family of six were this afternoon buried in a single grave at the family burying ground on the Jacobs' plantation. The bodies, horribly burned, shoAr only that the skdlls of three were crushed. This is regarded, in the light of other developments, as conclusive nroof that <H?v were mnnlar. ed and did not meat death from the flames that burned the house. The fire that burned the house destroyed any evidence of the murder, A theory at first entertained by many that the family might have been burned to death when the house they occupied was destroyed is dismissed by the statements of numerous residents of the community, who declare that the storm that passed over this section between 9 and 10 o'clock was over at 10 o'clock. Se 11 l - I -J A.a_i_ vere ugnming accompanies mis storm, but no lightning was seen by neighbors after 10 o'clock. The fire was discovered between 3:30 and 4 o'clock. Persons first on the scene found the front of the house consumed but the rear still burning. The house was burning rapidly then and could not, say early arrivals, have been burning since the early evening, as would have been the case if the origin had been lightning. No Motive Known. Other suppositions are hardly less baffling. John D. Jacobs was a highly respected and prosperous farmer. His dealings with honorable and none Si c'oge8t friends can furnish evcftt a> r motive for this horrible erii^t*- Neiu?" [ er he nor any members of hi* family were known to have an enemy. Robbery would not have attracted vandals, for there could not have i been more than an inconsiderable sum of money in the house. The jewelry known to have been there has been found in the ruins and identified in whole. The body of Miss Ellen Jacobs was found in the ruins of what had been ! her room. It rested on the charred remnants of her bed. Mrs. Jacobs' body was found in a similar position in her room. The bodies of John D. Jacobs and Orin Jacobs, the youngest of three sons, were together on the springs of their bed. The bodies of Too1{a T 10 * *T U * * Jvoi.t vnwuo, io ttliu nugo aH CUDS, 15, could not be distinguished. These . were almost consumed and thoee who , viewed the bodies have not been able . to say which was separated from the ; bodies of father and brothers. One < was found in the dining room sdjoin. ing the room in which the father and , two boys were found. Mr. Jacobs , and his three sons occupied the room , connected with the dining room by I a window or door. Parts of fouc guns and an axe, all believed to have i been the property of members of the , Jacobs' household, were found in the ruins. The wood work all ha<^ been burned, only the iron and steel remaining intact. The axe was a new one and had not, it is said, been ground. In one gun was found two shells. One, it is believed, had been fired while the other was discharged by the heat. This belief is based on the discovery that an indention is found on one shell where it had evidently been struck by the hammer, while the other bore no such imprint. The Funeral Services. The funeral services for the family was conducted this afternoon at the former home of Walter Jacobs, a few hundred yards from the home of his late brother. Walter Jacobs several years ago moved to Newberry and since he vacated it this house has not been occupied. The funeral and interment attracted a great crowd from several counties. Probably no funeral in this section has been so largely attended and by persons from such a distance. The family of six in two coffins, was laid in a single grave in the family burying ground on the Jacobs plantation where already three children of the family had been buritjjL t The funeral -services were conduct-' ed by four Lutheran ministers, the* Rev. Edward Fulenwider, of Newberry; the Rev. J. C. Wes.singer, of. Chapin; the Rev. V. L. Fulmer, of White Rock. Services at the grave were conducted by the Peak lodge of Masons, Pomaria lodge, v No. 161, of which John D. Jacobs hand long been a member. For Weakness and Loss of Appetite The Old Standard general strengthening tonic. GROVE'S TASTELESS chUl TONIC, drives out Malaria and builds up the system. A true tonia and sure Appetiser. 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