Lawrence County AlArchives News.....Summary Vengence. June 19, 1874
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Moulton Advertiser June 19, 1874

On Friday morning the 20th of May, a young man about 20 years old who lived 
with his parents about a mile from Tom TERRY's 
dwelling, came to Terry's cow pen, where Mrs. Terry and her little daughter, 
Mary LOVETT, (a child of her first husband) 11 years 
old were milking, and enquired of Mrs. Terry if she had seen his father's cow. 
While he was present Mrs. Terry directed Mary to 
go down to the spring and make preparations to do a days washing. Horn was seen 
by the child to pass near the spring a few 
moments after her arrival, but he did not speak to her. He was next seen in Mr. 
Terry's field by two of his hands of whom he made 
inquiry of the cow, and was directed by them to go to a certain old field which 
the cattle frequented. He consented to do so, and 
after asking where Mr. Terry was at work, he left them.
But instead of going in the direction of the old field, he was seen to go 
towards the spring. What transpired at the spring as reported 
by the child and corroborated by the confession of HORN is as follows: He 
commenced the conversation with her by asking if she did 
not have to work very hard? He next asked her age and then made indecent 
proposals to her. This frightened little Mary and to escape
 she said she must "make haste and carry a bucket of water to her mother." When 
she started to leave the spring, Horn followed and 
attempted to knock her down with a stick. She screamed and fortunately was 
heard by her mother who was at the house, distant near 
100 yards. He struck her repeatedly, but the child succeeded in parrying the 
blows from her head, receiving them on her arms, which 
were bruised from the wrists to the elbows. He succeeded in knocking her down 
at last, and then deliberately cut her throat twice on the
 left side, evidently attempting to sever the carotid arteries. The veins were 
cut, but owing to the dullness of the knife, the arteries escaped.
 He left her, thinking, he says, that she was dead, but noticing some 
manifestations of life he returned and cut her across the wind pipe and 
on the right side of the neck. Mary was unconscious, when her mother reached 
her, having fainted from loss of blood, but after a little while 
she recovered and told who did the fiendish deed. Horn was immediately 
arrested, confessed his crime, was turned over to the officers of the 
law, and placed in the Calaboose of the town of Courtland.-About 11 o'clock 
that night a party of men went to the house of the Constable, 
took from him the keys of the prison, and taking therefrom the prisoner, hung 
him within the corporate limits of the town.
The verdict of the community was, that this monster had, by his villany, placed 
himself beyond the pale of the law; and the safety 
of the lives and virtue of its daughters, demanded his immediate execution.
The little girl is doing well at this time, and we have the assurance of the 
attending physician, that she will recover.


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