| Cassville Republican, Weekly Paper, Barry Co., MO, March 3, 1892, Thursday |
| Ash News: A sad accident happened to R. E. Raines little girl recently which is told as follows: Some five years ago Mr. Raines married a Miss Blevins. They had one child. Mrs. Raines died and the child was cared for by its grandmother until a short time ago when Mr. Raines married a Miss Summey and his child was taken to her now home. One morning Mrs. Raines started to the spring after water when the little one came running after her screaming, with her clothes on fire. Before it could be extinguished the child was burned so badly that it died the next morning. Mrs. Raines was charged with killing the child by saturating its clothes with oil and throwing it into the fire and then leaving it. It is reported the the child repeatedly so stated before it died. Mrs. Raines hearing began Feb. 20th before Squire Floyd of Benton Co., Ark., and lasted three days. She was acquitted but the feeling is strongly against her. *** It was developed in the trial of old man Van Vactor yesterday before Commissioner Howell that the neighborhood around Verona, Aurora and Monett is honeycombed with a gang of counterfeiters, who are working off a large quantity of spurious money. Van Vactor is one of their leaders and there was abundant evidence to warrant his being bound over to the May term of the Federal Court in Springfield. Springfield Democrat. |
| Resource: State Historical Society of MO Microfilm |
| Submitted by: Donna Cooper |
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