AN ENGLISH LADY BURNED TO DEATH BY ROBBERS.

Evening Post, Volume XLI, Issue 103, 2 May 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN ENGLISH LADY BURNED TO DEATH BY ROBBERS.

Atlanta (Georgia), Jan. 9. A great sensation has been caused in this city by the brutal murder of an English lady and her daughter in the suburbs of Atlanta. The lady in question is Mrs. S. (i. Peters, who recently purchased a beautiful home here, and came to reside in it not long since. Besides her servants, she was accompanied only by her daughter, a young girl of ten years. Mrs. Peters was reputed to be very wealthy. She lived in good style and was much liked. About one o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in her house, and the upper part of the mansion wa9 burning fiercely before the neighbours were aroused. A number of gentlemen then attempted to enter the house, but were driven back by the smoke and flames. An alarm was given, and the firemen succeeded in saving a part of the house, but the room occupied by Mrs. Peters and her daughter was completely burned, and the charred corpses of mother and daughter were found on the floor. The servants made their escape. The neighbours who were first on the ground state that they saw four men leaving the vicinity of Mrs. Peters' house as they came up, and the police believed that the lady had been robbed by burglars, who then set fire to the room in which their victims were. An indignation meeting was held, and the citizens resolved to supplement the efforts of the police. Bloodhounds were put on the tracks of the murderers, but the hounds could only trail as far as the railway station, where the men doubtless boarded a freight train and escaped. Mrs. Peters was reputed to have a large sum of money in her house, and no doubt the robbers heard of this and carried out their plans accordingly. The police have telegraphed in all directions, and hope to be able te trace the murderers through the railway servants, some of whom must have observed the men.