Biased News Story or Not? You Decide!
The following was printed in the Port Smith (
A HIDEOUS ATROCITY IN
TWO GIRLS MURDER THEIR STEP-MOTHER
On Saturday last a shocking
and most brutal murder was committed in Paint Rock settlement, which for
brutally and fiendishness surpasses anything of the kind that we have ever been
called upon to chronicle.
It appears that a Mrs. Hicks
and her two step-daughters, named respectively Mary and Kaziah,
had for some time lived unpleasantly together, when the two daughters
determined to put her out of the way.
Accordingly, with the monstrous intent, they forcibly conveyed their
unfortunate victim to the smokehouse nearby, and commenced a series of tortures
that even the veriest savage would have shrunk back
from and grown hideous at-such was the enormity of their barbarity and
wickedness. They first attempted to strangle their victim to death; but failing
in that, these fiends in human shape bethought themselves of a more refined, as
well as expeditious mode of accomplishing their object, which was to pour
melted lead in the ear of their helpless victim, and then to make assurance
doubly sure, these devoted daughters struck the prostrate and dying woman
several blows on the head with an axe.
Supposing the old lady dead
or dying—having finished the “job” these Christian daughters left their mother
weltering in her blood and went to church. Some of the neighbors soon after
coming in found Mrs. Hicks in the condition the daughters left her,
administered restoratives and revived her sufficiently to relate the above
detailed facts.
We learn that Mrs. Hicks has
since died of her injuries, and that the murderers are still at large, having
secreted themselves so as to prevent the officers of the law from arresting
them.
This story was printed in The New York Times in February 1972.
YOUTH DIES RESISTING HOLDUP IN SUBWAY
A 14 year old youth was
stabbed yesterday evening as he and four friends resisted an attempted robbery
by five other youths at a platform on the Chamber Street IRT subway station,
the police reported.
The police said the youth, identified
as Michael Paulk, of
When the first group refused,
the police said, one of the assailants grabbed a paper bag from one of the
youths he was confronting. The first group started to flee, the police said,
and one of them turned and saw that the young Paulk
boy had been stabbed. HE was taken to