The Toronto Daily Mail
TORONTO, MONDAY, June 5, 1893
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TRIPLE MURDER.
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A Farmer, His Wife, and Daughter Killed.
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WITH PISTOL AND KNIFE.
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An Appalling Crime Shrouded in Complete Mystery.
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THE ASSASSIN LEAVES NO TRACES.
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He Attempts to Burn the Bodies of His Unfortunate Victims.
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AUTHORITIES SEARCHING FOR CLUES.
TORONTO, MONDAY, June 5, 1893
Page 1.
TRIPLE MURDER.
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A Farmer, His Wife, and Daughter Killed.
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WITH PISTOL AND KNIFE.
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An Appalling Crime Shrouded in Complete Mystery.
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THE ASSASSIN LEAVES NO TRACES.
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He Attempts to Burn the Bodies of His Unfortunate Victims.
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AUTHORITIES SEARCHING FOR CLUES.
EDY BUTCHERY!
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Further Details of the Murder of
Three Respectable People.
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Their Dwelling Fired to Cover Up the
Awful Crime—Ghastly Work of the Unknown Assassins.
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CLARENCEVILLE, Que., June 3, —The triple murder of the father, mother and daughter of
one of the oldest and most highly respected families of this locality threw
this unusually quiet hamlet into a state of ferment Saturday morning. The
following are late particulars of the tragedy:— The Edy homestead is situated
on a farm of about 150 acres in extent and lately has been worked on shares by
Mr. Edy and a French-Canadian named Gilbert. Gilbert lives about 300 yards from
the Edy residence, and Saturday morning rose at daylight as his usual custom
and proceeded to the stables to water and feed the stock. Seeing smoke issuing
from the Edy's house he rushed to Mr. Edy's bedroom window, intending to arouse
the old couple. He discovered that their bed was undisturbed, and rushing
around to the kitchen door forced it open, when A GHASTLY SPECTACLE was before
him. On a chair was the old gentleman with a bullet hole in his head. On the
kitchen floor were the bodies of his wife and daughter Emma, a pretty and
accomplished young lady of 20 years. Their throats were cut from ear to ear and
they also had bullet wounds in the head. Gilbert quickly dragged the bodies out
of the burning building and raised the alarm. The house was soon reduced to
ashes. That the Edys had been
MURDERED AND ROBBED seems beyond question. They
were in the habit of retiring early, and the fact that they still had on their
everyday attire when found demonstrated that they must have been assassinated
early the previous evening. The old man's pockets were turned inside out, while
around the girl's hand was a rubber band, which evidently belonged to a wallet
and had been slipped over her hand while in the act of paying over money to the
robbers. Her appearance showed that she was engaged in a death struggle, her
face and arms being scratched and some of her clothing torn.
