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Sign up Log in. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. Metropolitan Museum Cleveland Museum of Art. Internet Arcade Console Living Room. Open Library American Libraries. Search the Wayback Machine Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. Sign up for free Log in. Full text of " The Mattoon Murders " See other formats if? On ihc evening of April 27, , five young brothers and sisters were found slain in and around an old combination com crib-barn 8 miles NW of Mattoon, Illinois.
Eleven hours after the bodies were discovered, an 18 year old high school boy was arrested near Eastern Illinois University m nearby Charleston as he walked down the- center of the highway running through town. He offered no resistance and rather meekly put his hands in the air as two carloads of Charleston Police and E. Security Officers swooped down on him. An un- loaded. As lie was arrested, he started to cry. Police and State's Attorney's investigators had little trouble recon- structing the events leading up to the shootings.
On the morning of April 27, around a. He was wearing green jeans, a khaki shirt, brown leather boots, and an Army fatigue jacket littered with various patches and insignia. Slung low on his right Uiigh was a loaded. In the pocket of his jacket, lie tarried nearly 40 loose rounds of ammunition in addition to the 6 already in his gun.
