Mrs Hossack Attack Essay

John just stood in shock. Two Englishmen came out the trees, one was named Daniel Smith and the other was named Walter Kelly. They had thought Little Hawk was attacking John so they killed him. They threw Little Hawk’s body aside, and started hacking at the branch to free John’s father. John began to cry and shrieked at the men, saying that Little Hawk was just trying to help. John started to grow a sense of hatred towards the two Englishmen. People carried John’s father away in a litter and nobody noticed John taking Little Hawk’s tomahawk and sliding it under his jacket. That night, John’s father died. Soon after, Daniel Smith married John’s mother. One year later, Daniel sent John away to be an apprentice to a cooper named Master Medlycott. On the way, he met a pretty girl named Huldah Bates who was going to live with the Kelly household and help the mistress there. When John arrived to the Medlycott household, Master Medlycott greeted him and gave him tasks to do. The schedule was same every week. On Sundays, John and the Medlycotts went to the meetinghouse for a sermon. John rarely had the chance to speak to Huldah Bates but they exchanged smiles in the meetinghouse. One Sunday, a preacher named Roger Williams arrived at the meetinghouse and talked about freedom of religion and stated that everyone are all brothers and sisters, including the Indians. This disturbed many

Investigators suspect that the murder was unintentional. The killer supposedly had intimate knowledge of the house. The most enticing theory is that Jonbonets father John Ramsey and Jonbonets mother Patricia Ramsey committed the crime. The theory is that Patricia caught John sexually assaulting their daughter and when trying to hit him over the head with a flashlight she accidently hit Jonbenet instead this would explain why the couple would need to lie for each other and try to cover up the murder together. There has been assumption that Jonbenet was killed in the basement. Her body was very clearly moved. She had been placed in her favorite blanket in a dryer that was near her room. This shows the love that the killer had for her. She had to have been lifted by a strong adult and placed in the most obscure part of the

On Saturday, December 1, 1900, a man named John Hossack was killed in his sleep with a hatchet by his wife, Margaret Hossack. The story told by Margaret was that she had heard what sounded like two boards banging together and by that time the attacker had fled and she didn’t catch a glimpse of him. The next thing she saw was her extremely wounded husband, John, who had a five-inch cut into his head and a fractured skull. A doctor, who came and examined John, and said there was no hope and John died the next morning. As an investigation started, a burglary was thought of as the first motive but the idea flawed because nothing was stolen so the idea was quickly abandoned. In the 4 days between the murder and the funeral, the police talked to

The characters in this short story all play a very important role; the men vs. the women. It is vital to take into account of the condescending remarks made by the men towards the women. After Mr. Hale described the scene of when he found Mrs. Wright on her rocking chair and her murdered husband, they decided to go upstairs and look for crucial clues. Mr. Hale told the two women to stay in the kitchen and search for anything that may be of importance to their case, however, he then said nonchalantly, “but would the women know a clue if they did come upon it?” (p. 383) They said it with absolutely no remorse, and intentionally

The narrator sets the scene; the cold kitchen of the farmhouse the day after John Wright was found murdered in his own bed with a rope around his neck. Nothing has been touched except a fire has been started on the stove to warm the place a bit for when the sheriff and the county attorney would arrive to access the situation and look for a motive. Mrs. Wright who had been found the morning before just rocking back and forth in the kitchen rocker and pleating her apron that lay on her lap, over and over

First of all, there were no signs of anyone trying to break into the Borden home, so it had to be someone that was already there. There were cops that searched the house but found nothing that could’ve led to someone

The police placed numerous markers at the scene, and there were bullet holes in a number of cars. Investigators knocked on neighbors’ doors asking if they had observed any disturbances.

The Narrator is convinced she is sick; however, her brother and husband do not believe her. She says, “You see, he does not believe I am sick…If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but

As I impatiently waited on my mother to come back home, she instantly rushed into the house. At that moment, I knew something was terribly wrong.

When he goes to pawn off his father’s watch, he notices the pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanova. He had been pondering what sort of crime he wanted to commit but immediately when he saw her he knew he wanted to kill her. He questions himself and does not know if he can go through with it because he knows that it will be risky, but after he decides that he could steal her money, he decides to follow through. Meanwhile, he receives a note from his mother, stating that she and his sister will soon be moving to St. Petersburg. His sister will also be marrying Pyotr Luhzin soon and immediately Raskolnikov takes a disliking to him because he fears that Dunechka is marrying for the money, not love. When he is ready to commit the murder, he steals an axe then hacks Alyona Ivanovna to death and begins to steal her things. As he is doing this, Lizaveta, Ivanovna’s sister, walks in and he instantly kills her. He barely manages to flee the scene without being caught. The next morning he begins to get paranoid and decides to hide the evidence under a rock. He then becomes sick with a fever that persists for about a week and he constantly is seeing things and hallucinating. Once he is better, he gets called to the police station and almost confesses to the murder, but at the end tells the cop that he was joking. A few days later, he goes to talk to Sonia, the daughter of a man that Raskolnikov met at a bar and with the intention of telling

As I predicted in my last book report the killer continued to follow the Ten Little Indians nursery rhyme. The deaths of both Anthony Marston and Mrs. Rodgers follows the first verse “One choked his

After the breakfast, they went off to fin John Collinson If the murder was personal, they needed information about Alfred’s personal life and problems he may have faced. John lived over the bakery. A small residence, with only three rooms, a bedroom, kitchen and a small closet. The entrance was in the kitchen area. A small table placed under the window where they sat to talk. The stranger sat and listened to John, but most of the times he was watching the empty streets. What is he thinking? I thought he cared about investigating. He sat and stared out the window until John said something that got his attention. ‘’My grandfather got in a conflict with the bank. This was years before the murders began. They believed he was refusing to pay his taxes.

The fall breeze brisked the victim's decaying shoulder as leaves fell with the wind. They had surrounded his body, for they too had found their end. Within a couple hours of his death, sirens disturbed the eerie whispers of the trees. Men and women had flocked to the area, not hastily but, calmly in an ordered fashion. They were numb to tragedy. After the crime scene had been addressed to the police officers' abilities, the medical examiner stepped in. His facial expression was emotionless, for he knew how to detach himself from the corpse. He pulled a pen from his pocket and commenced his initial observations.

could not believe what she was seeing. Her best friend broke into her house to take her

Paul heard the screams before he even woke up. When he finally opened his eyes it took him a few moments to register where the screams were coming from. He looked over at the other side of the bed and panicked slightly, before he remembered that Sally was away at a writer’s seminar and would be getting home late.