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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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In Berlin, Maryland, 60-year-old Orphan Jones is charged with murdering Green Davis, 55, his wife Iva, 45, and daughters Elizabeth, 15, and Mary Lou, 13, on their farm using a shotgun and ax after a quarrel and discharge. Bodies found bludgeoned and shot in the farmhouse.
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Bodies Are Found in Farm House—Victims Bludgeoned, then Shot
BERLIN, Maryland, Oct. 13.—A sixty-year-old negro, Orphan Jones, is held for the shotgun and ax murders of the Green Davis family, Davis, his wife and two daughters, on their farm.
Jones worked three weeks for Davis, up to last Saturday night then they quarreled and Jones was discharged.
The body of Davis, aged 55 years, was found yesterday in his bed beside the body of his wife, Iva, aged 45 years, on the second floor of the farm house.
The bodies of the two girls, Elizabeth, aged 15, and Mary Lou, aged 13 years, were found in their bed in an adjoining room.
Shotgun slugs had been fired into the bodies. The victims had also been unmercifully bludgeoned with an ax.
The authorities say they found property belonging to the Davis family
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Berlin, Maryland
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Bodies Found Yesterday (Oct. 12), Murders After Last Saturday Night Prior To Oct. 13
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four victims (green davis, iva davis, elizabeth, mary lou) bludgeoned with ax and shot with shotgun; orphan jones held and charged
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Orphan Jones, a 60-year-old negro who worked three weeks for Green Davis until discharged after a quarrel last Saturday night, is held for the murders. Bodies of Davis family found in farmhouse: Davis and wife in bed on second floor, daughters in adjoining room, all bludgeoned and shot. Authorities found Davis family property with Jones.