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THE CANTON HORROR n Inside the House. GHASTLY EVIDENCES OF TRAGEDY. One of our reporters visited the house in company with Detective-Sergeant Kellett, and "Witnessed ghastly evidences of the crime. In the little back scullery where Parkins Out his throat there were several pools of blood, indicating that the frenzied man had given himself a very severe gash, although it was understood that he had not.severoo the Wind-pipe. A curious fact noticed in the kitchen was that three large framed grronped-photographs had their faces turned to the wall. On the kitchen table Lay another picture frame con- taining three photographs, and affixed to this Was a stamp photograph of Parkins in his uniform of a Custom-house officer. In this he appears a respectable-looliing man in the late thirties, but the face is some- what striking It is a fairly intellectual fa,('e-, but in the eyes there is a strange, far- away IOOlk, as though the man is a dreamer and given to meditaftion upon things beyond the ordinary pale of life. Proceeding upetaim, cur reporter entered the front bedroom, and there the evidences of the tra-gedy were oppressively awesome. The room con-tai-ned t.wo beds, and the cloth- ing was much bloodstained. Particularly was this so in the case of the bed on the right, on which the poruon of the heet near the head and the pillow was Red with Blood. I Other indications were still more painful too the eight. There were bloodstains on the floor, on the walls and door-posts there was blood smeared in all directions, obvio-iu-ly made by the fingers of persons groping their way from the room. Th<? Bn?er-m.aj'ks were more touching than a.ny-I thing else to look upon. Our reporter paeeed from this room into the middle bedroom, and there on a oh air beside Parking's bed lay a hatchet, not very big, but a thing which would constitute a terrible weapon in the hands of a frenzied man. Apparently Parkins had either for- gotten this, or had preferred the hammer as an instrument for his ghastly work. One or two of the other rooms were almost bare of furniture, the fact seeming to indi- cate that the family had had to dispose of some of their household goods to procure the necessaries of life. "OH, FATHER, DON'T KILL ME" I According to the boy Willie's story to a I neighbour, the father started to go upstairs at five minutes past three; and as if he was divining his attention the boy made a pitiful appeal to him, Oh, father, èon't kill me." "No, my lad," replied Parkins, and taking him in his arms, passionately kissed him. Parkins Under Arrest Parkins has been placed under formal I arrest, but has not been charged. ( THE LOCALE. I Lincoln-street, where the tragedy took Place, is between Cow bridge-road and Lans- downe-road, and lies between and parallel with Nottingham-street and Norfolk-street.

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