Servant Girl Annihilator - Servant Girl Murders - The Midnight Assassin

In 1884 Austin , Texas  saw the start of a brutal string of attacks on mainly servant girls , who were attaked whilst they slept , normally with and ax , and raped and then murdered 

these killings would be coined the servant girl murders , and the murderer who was never caught would become known as the 



midnight assassin or the Servant Girl Annihilator.

source information for this episode came from the fantastic book by Tim Huddleston

Annihilation in Austin: The Servant Girl Annihilator Murders of 1885 by Tim Huddleston

heres an amazon link if u wish to read more 

Annihilation In Austin: The Servant Girl Annihilator Murders of 1885 (Cold Case Crime Book 3) eBook : Huddleston, Tim: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store


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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Bizarre Podcast. I hope
you're all doing well. On today's episode, we're going to
talking about an axe murder case. We've done quite a
few on this channel, but this one I've never really
heard of before. I just kind of stumbled across it,
and apparently it was lost in the pages of history
for quite a long time, and I think that's why

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it's not as widely known as some of the others.
This case is called the Servant Girl Annihilator, but it's
also known as the Servant Girl Murders or the Midnight Assassin.
So with further ado, let's get straight into it. Okay.

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So today's story takes place in Austin, Texas, the year
eighteen eighty four. Now, at this time, you might say
that the city of Austin was still on the rise
from its humble beginnings when the first settlers arrived and
set up camp on the Colorado River back in the
eighteen thirties, and by eighteen forty five, Texas was established
as a state and and became its capital. By the
end of the Civil War, the city saw a rapid

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growth of newly emancipated African Americans and During the eighteen
sixties and early eighteen seventies, residential communities were established for
the African Americans, known as Friedman's communities. Have no doubt
this was a segregation. By eighteen seventy, thirty six percent
of the population of Austin was African American. Although emancipated
and now free with more opportunities equal they were not.

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The Freedman communities built their own businesses and supported each other,
whilst some found employment as domestic servants. By eighteen eighty four,
Austin saw the start of a brutal string of attacks
on mainly servant girls, who were attacked while they slept
normally with an axe and then raped and murdered. These

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killings would be coined the servant Girl Murders, and the
murderer who was never caught by the way, would become
known as a midnight assassin or the servant girl annihilator.
December the thirty first, eighteen eighty four. It was on
this night, at three o'clock in the morning, when Walter
Spencer awoke in agonizing pain. Someone had severely beating him

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around the head. He had about five to six deep
gashes and he was horribly disfigured and swollen and covered
in blood, with fragments of skull broken and smashed in.
His girlfriend, Molly Smith was missing from the bedroom, but
her blood remained. He couldn't find her anywhere in the room.
Molly was a servant girl who was employed by mister

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and Missus Hall and was given living space in the
small apartment behind the kitchen where the black couple lived together.
Walter staggered into the bedroom of his employer's brother, Tom Charmers,
and tried desperately to string a few words together from
his broken face. Tom awoke to see the horrific state
of Walter, but showed little concern and told Walter to

(02:52):
seek medical attention. And then Tom simply turned over and
went back to sleep. And so Walter did what he
was told. He staggered out from the house alone and
made his way to the doctor's house alone, literally a
broken man. And when morning came and the household awoke
to no breakfast prepared, of course, they now wondered whether
servant girl Molly Smith could be It was very unusual

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not to have breakfast prepared. At around nine o'clock, mister
Hall heard shouts coming from the back garden. The shouts
came from the neighbour's servant boy, who had discovered Molly
Smith laying on the ground in the long grass behind
the outhouse, obviously dead. Her head had been almost hacked
in two, her legs were spread wide apart. A night
dress was torn and blood soaked into the white snow

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around her, with a trail coming from the back door
indicating that Molly had been dragged from the The trail
of blood also led back to the girl's bedroom, and
in the light of day, it was a horrific sight
to behold. Blood was everywhere, soaking into the bed, into
the pillows. Blood had splattered all over the walls and
stained the wooden floors and by the foot of the bed.

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The weapon used to commit this grizzly a blood soaked
axe that did not belong to the charmers. The killer
had brought it himself. It also looked as though Molly
had put up quite a fight before she met her end,
and mirror had been shattered, furniture had been turned over,
and there was bloody handprints on the door frames. It
was believed that her injuries had been inflicted upon her

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while she was still inside the room, and then she
was dragged outside and raped, and if she wasn't dead
already at this point, she was then killed. There were
very little clues to go on. There was no chance
whatsoever of finding DNA evidence or fingerprints. No back in
eighteen eighty four, they were not even a thing yet.
But the killer did leave behind one clue, one very

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important clue, footprints in the snow. The killer was barefooted,
with wide feet and a missing toe. Molly's employer, mister Hall,
sent for Austin's Marshal grooms Lee. Marshall Groomsley had his
work cut out for him, with only twelve men to
uphold the law in Austin at the time. It also
didn't help that Marshall Groomsley was not exactly fit for

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the job. Most of the time, himself and his men
could be found visiting the saloons and local brothels during
work hours, but it wasn't work that they had on
their minds. There was also the possibility that Groomsley was
a corrupt cop, and some other people of Austin would
have liked to see him stripped of his badge. Unfortunately,
he was the son of a powerful politician so it

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proved a little bit difficult when the Marshal arrived at
the crime scene. Bloodhounds was sent out to sniffer clues,
but none were found, apart from the footprint left in
the snow with the missing toe, a detail that the
police would for some reason keep close to their chests.
Molly's ex boyfriend, a man named William len Brooks, was
questioned due to the fact that they had a volatile

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history after Molly tried to kill him with a glass bottle. Also,
William had become jealous when Molly met Walter Spencer and
tried to fight Molly's new man, so understandably, the suspicion
fell upon him. However, it turned out that the ex
boyfriend had been at a dance party two miles from
the murder scene and he had witness However, all witnesses

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were black, and in the eyes of the marshal, these
witnesses were questionable at best because of their skin color.
But the ex boyfriend was eventually set free on the
grounds of no evidence, and the killer's identity remained a mystery.
Following Molly's murder, Austin had a surge of violent crimes
against domestic servants. Servants quarters were targeted night after night

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after night, and the attacks ranged from rocks throned, physical
violence and rape. Sometimes the crimes were carried out by
one man, sometimes two men, and sometimes a gang of men.
On one particular night, there were four separate attacks. First,
the gang of men tried to break into an apartment
of a black woman. Luckily, the husband awoke and shot
at them with a pistol through the door, causing them

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to run away. Elsewhere, alone man tried to break into
a room of two young servant girls, but they ran
out screaming and dis alerted the neighbors. Elsewhere, a woman
was assaulted by a few men, but managed to fight
them off. But the woman was not so lucky, as
she was beaten and raped by two men. The woman
survived and actually managed to identify one of the men,

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an Abe Pearson, a mixed race barber, and she claimed
that he had actually darkened his own skin color with
lampblack to look darker, but she still recognized his voice.
Like I said, this all happened in one single night.
The attacks went on and on, and it seemed like
black men were being targeted by the police. However, these
attacks although really really awful, did not match Molly Smith's

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brutal murder. And yes, although most of the attacks happened
to servant girls, it did also happen to German and
Swedish women. And throughout all of this it seemed like
the police were utterly useless, and some newspaper articles actually
started to suggest that the people of Austin should start
forming their own vigilante groups because the police clearly weren't

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doing anything about it. On May the sixth, eighteen eighty five,
another dead body was discovered which shard so many similarities
with Molly Smith's murder. The servant girl an ihilator had returned.
Eliza Shelley's dead body was found by her employer, Missus Johnson.
Well to be exact, it was Missus Johnson's young niece
that found the body. Missus Johnson has sent her needs

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to investigate screaming coming from the servant girl's cabin behind
the house. The young girl had made her way to
the cabin, opened the door and saw Eliza's dead body
covered in blood. A night dress left pulled over a
waist over in the corner of the room was the
source of the screaming. It was coming from the dead
woman's eight year old son, and over on the bed,
huddled together on the blood soak mattress were the boys

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younger brothers. Eliza was a mother of three, and she
had been killed with her children in the room. It
would seem that the murderer had no problem killing with
kids in the room, but luckily the children had not
been harmed. Eliza had been hit so hard in the
head that the blow of the object used to kill
her had gone straight through her skull into her brain.
The weapon had possibly being an axe, but no weapon

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was actually left behind this time. She also had wounds
above her ear and between her eyes. These similarities between
this murder and Molly Smith's murder was just too hard
to ignore. They were both attacked while sleeping, and they
were both raped, possibly after death. But this time there
was a witness. Eliza's eight year old son. The little

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boy claimed that he awoke in the middle of the
night to find a man going through the family's belongings.
In fear, the boy cried out, but the man told
him to be quiet or he would kill him. The boy,
of course, did as he was told. The man asked
the boy where his mother kept her money, and when
the boy told the man he didn't know, he pushed
the eight year old boy into the corner of the room,

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threw a blanket over him, and then proceeded to go
through the family's belongings, and the boy eventually fell back asleep.
Although Marshall Lee suspected the killer could have used chloroform
on the boy, as some have been reported stolen from
a local dentist. Eventually the boy would awaken the room
that was full of blood, his mother's blood. The only
details a boy could give on the man's appearance was

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that the man wore a bandana over his face, and
there was also another set of footprints found. Once again,
the bloodhounds were released, only to find nothing at all.
As far as everyone was concerned, there was no reason
for anyone to want to Harmalize and let alone kill
her or rob her. The police did arrest a black
man who was spotting not far away from the scene,

(10:27):
purely because he was barefoot. Buddy was released. Also, a
man named Ike Plumber was arrested another black man. May
I add after a man named Andrew Rogers claimed that
he witnessed Plumber ask Eliza for some money the night
she was murdered, and when she refused, Andrew Rodgers apparently
overheard Plumber mutter under his breath that he would see
her again. And Rogers also claimed to have seen a

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handle of a hatchet hanging out of the man's pocket.
If this all sounds a little convenient, it's probably because
it was. No one really bought Roger's story, and it
seemed like Rogers may have had a personal vendetta against Plumber,
and some believed that Marshall Lee Rooms may have set
the whole thing up just to have someone to arrest.

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You see, he was under a lot of scrutiny for
failing to find the killer, and the city was under
panic due to the rise of violent crimes, and fingers
were being pointed and judgments passed. Maybe the Marshal felt
he needed to show he was making progress in the case,
so he set up Plumber to take the fall. Maybe
this is all speculation. Either way, Plumber was released and

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the killer was still out there. On the night of
the twenty third of May, a burfooting man in a
ragged colting hat entered the apartment of the Irene Cross.
He entered the first room, where Irene's young nephew was sleeping,
but the sound of the man walking through woke up
the boy and he started to scream. The man pulled
out a knife and ordered the boy to be silent,
and of course he obeyed. The man then proceeded to

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Irene's room, but she also awoke and started to scream.
But Irene would not be silenced, so the man attacked,
slicing Irene's arms so deep and long that the limb
was almost split in two as blood gush from the artery.
He then proceeded to slice Irene's forehead so violently it
was always trying to scalp her, but Irene continued to

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scream and the man decided to flee the scene. Despite
Irene's injuries, she someha managed to make her way outside
of the cabin, and by this time her employers had
come to her aid and brought her into the main house.
The family rang the police and the doctor, but it
was a reporter who managed to get their first and
did not hesitate to question Irene, who was losing a
lot of blood at this point, so as you can imagine,

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she was in a state of shock, and so the
reporter decided to get as much information out of the
nephew as he could. As Irene bled to death. Once again,
the hounds were released. Once again, more black men were arrested,
and once again they were released. Marshall league Rooms was
convinced that it was an African American who was killing
these women, and his reasoning was and the ease were

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his own words. His reasoning was because no white man
could possibly have any reason to murder black servant girls. Unbelievable.
Many think that he was trying to run black people
out of town, and it had gotten so bad that
many black men had started to actually tie bags of
herbs around their ankle to throw the dogs off their scent.

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When they went on the hunt, Marsha league Rooms arrested
many men on suspicion of these murders, but not enough
evidence was ever found against them and they were simply
let go. On the night of August thirtieth, Rebecca Ramie
and her eleven year old daughter, Murray Raymie went to bed.
Rebecca worked for a mister Valentine Weed in his livery,
but unlike other victims, Rebecca and Murray slept in the

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kitchen of their employer. They did not have a separate room.
So on that night when they fell asleep in that kitchen,
Murray was the one that fell asleep first, and mother
Rebecca drifted off just before midnight. The next time Rebecca
opened her eyes, she was in a world of pain,
with doctors tending to her injur At some point in
the night, an intruder entered the kitchen and hit Rebecca

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in the head so hard that a skull fractured. What
some other lay unconscious. That intruder grabbed eleven year old
Murray and dragged it into the washhouse and proceeded to
rape her, and then when he had finished, he stabbed
her between both ears with a metal rod. This didn't
kill her straight away, she suffered in agonizing pain for
hours before eventually passing away. Her mother, Rebecca survived, although

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she had to live with what had happened to her
daughter for the rest of her life. The blood owns
were once again released, a black man was once again
arrested and let go, and ultimately no one was found
guilty of the murders. But this time was different. This
time it was an eleven year old child that had
been murdered, and the people of Austin were furious and

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they wanted results. On the twenty six of September, loosened
to Bobby and Patsy Gibson had decided to visit their
friend Grace Vance, who lived in Austin in a cabin
behind her employer's house with her common low husband Orange Washington. Now,
the group were all well aware that there was a
killer on the loose, as well as the violent crimes

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that were being committed by other individuals, but they felt
pretty safe considering that there was four of them in
this cabin on that particular night, so they decided to
sleep with the window open to let in a breeze.
Sometime after midnight, Lucinda woke up with an excruciating headache.
She lit a kerosene lamp and was horrified to see
her friend Patsy and Grace's husband Orange still laying where

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they had gone to sleep, but it was clear to
see that they had received blows to the head. Lucinda
looked everywhere, but she could not find her friend Gracey.
She was no longer in the room, and then she
heard something from outside the window. She approached the window
and held up the kerosene lamp illuminating a man outside.
The man shouted at Lucinda to not look at him

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and rushed towards her, whilst covering his face with his arm.
The man went to grab Lucinder, but she stepped back
out of his reach, and she ran from the cabin,
screaming as loud as she could, which woke up Major Dunham,
the owner of the house. The attacker caught upwardly Cinder
at the gate between the cabin and the house, but
luckily the Major appeared and aimed his rifle at the man,

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which seemed to skur him off and he fled. The
Major organized a group of his neighbors, who all armed
themselves and started to search the property and the area
for the killer. They eventually found Grace's dead body behind
the stables, where one or maybe more men forced themselves
upon her and then beat us so viciously with a
brick that her face was like a battered jelly. Lucinder

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and Patsy survived, but sadly, Grace's husband, Orange died of
his wounds. This time, the killer had left behind a
big clue, and that was a saddled horse that was
tied to a tree near the stables, and a silver
watch was also found in Grace's hand. The chain was
wrapped tightly around her hand, as if she had pulled
it away from the man when she was being attacked.

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Both the horse and the watch had been reported stolen,
so once again there was no leads to go on
apart from one. Lucinder recognized the killer's voice. She was
sure that it was Grace's ex boyfriend, Doc Woods. When
the police finally tracked Downwoods, he was wearing a shirt
that was staying with blood and he was arrested along
with his brother Doug and a known thief named Oliver Townsend. However,

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it was fought that Lucinder's ed and dre may have
resulted in her making a mistake. Now, because of all
the times that Marshal leagu Grooms had failed to come
up with any results, two men were actually sent from
Austin by the Houston Noble Detective Agency, and these men
proceeded to show the Marshal and his men how to
interrogate a prisoner their way, and they did this by
beating Woods and Townsend, but still neither of them confessed

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to the murder. They also tracked down a black man
by the name of Alec Mack in a nearby saloon
and asked him to come for a walk with them,
which was a mistake because when the police officers got
Alec Mack down a dark, quiet street, they proceeded to
beat him severely, trying to make him confess to something
that he simply did not do. They even wrapped a
noose around the man's neck to make him talk as

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he pulled the news tight. Luckily, a neighbor came out
of one of the houses and Alec Mack was rescued
for a brief moment of time. But when they got
him back to the police station, they beat him some more,
but Alex Mack never confessed to anything, and he was
ultimately released because they had no evidence. Marsha Lee Grooms
was now getting desperate. He needed a suspect, any suspect

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would do so in desperation, he claimed that Walter Spencer,
the partner of the first servant girl Molly Smith, was
to be tried for murder, which in my opinion is
absolutely ridiculous because Walter Spencer had his face and his
head almost demolished by the killer. So I don't know
exactly where they were getting the logic from well, I

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do Marsha Lee Grooms was simply trying to pin the
murder on someone to take the attention off him, but
this did not stand up and caught. There was simply
no evidence, and at long last, Marshall League Rooms was
relieved of his duty and replaced with hopefully a more
competent marshal. That marshall was a man named James Lucy,

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who was a former Texas ranger. Three months passed since
the last murder, and people were beginning to wonder if
the axe murderer had hung up his axe and called
it a day. However, the killer would strike one last time,
and this time it was on Christmas Eve. Late on
Christmas Eve, Susan Hancock and her husband, Moses Hancock had

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gone to bed, but they had been sleeping in separate
rooms due to marital problems. At around eleven per Moses
awoke to hear morning coming from somewhere in the house.
He got up from his bed and ventured into the
next room, only to see an empty bed that was
soaked in blood, his wife's blood soaked skirts thrown on
the chair, and a trail of blood on the floor
leading out of the room and into the hallway outside

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and around the back of the house. Moses followed this
trail only to find his wife. She was still alive,
but only just. She had been struck twice in the head,
her cheekbone was demolished, and her ear had been hacked
off with one blow from the axe. The other blow
had smashed the skull between the ear and the eye,
and the killer once again had taken a metal rod

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and inserted it into the woman's ears, straight through into
her brain. And yet she was still alive. But ultimately
Susan Hancock did not last much longer, and she died.
But this time there was something significantly different about the murder.
You see, the murderer had traditionally gone for black servant girls,

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and Susan Hancock was neither. She was not a servant girl,
and she was not black. She was a white woman.
And she was not the only white woman to die
on this night. The last woman to be killed on
this night was seventeen year older Euler Phillips, who was
a wife of musician Jimmy Phillips, and the two already
had an eighteen month old baby, and the three of

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them lived with Jimmy's parents. It was still late on
Christmas Eve when Jimmy's mother was away. Taken by the
sound of the baby crying, and probably thinking that the
young couple needed help getting the child back to sleep,
she got out of bed and made away to the bedroom.
When she opened the door, she found that the eighteen
month old baby was stood crying on a blood soaked bed.
The baby's clothing was also soaked in blood, whilst in

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his hand he held on to a single apple. After
seeing this, Missus Phillips fainted. It was not long before
she came round and rose to her feet to find
an axe covered in blood in the middle of the floor.
Her son still lay in bed with a deep gash
to the back of his head and neck. However, Eula
was nowhere to be seen. Only her blood was left behind,
soaking into the pillows and the bed. A trail of

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blood led through the porch door, through the garden and
into the alley. There Euler's body lay completely naked, her
legs spread apart and her arms held above, her head
held into place with a piece of lumber like she
was on display, and her forehead had been smashed in
by the blow from the axe. It's safe to say
that Christmas Day was most definitely turnished for the people

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of Austin who now wanted results, and with the murder
of two white women, it seemed like Moore was actually
getting done. Vigilante groups were now being offered funding from
the richer people of Austin, and rewards were also being
offered for the capture of the killer or killers. There
was also curfews that were put into place, and saloons
and brothels were ordered to close by midnight. On Christmas

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Day alone, many arrests were made, but once again everyone
who was arrested were also set free due to lack
of evidence. And as a week's past, people set her
to notice that there were many more police patrols out
on the streets. The sales of firearms increased drastically, and
many that could afford a new burglar alarm had then
fitted to the properties. It really did seem like the

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murder of two white women was enough to get the
ball rolling to try and find out who the murderer was,
but still no killer was ever found. In what seemed
like desperation, the police arrested the husbands of Susan and
Euler for the murder of though why now burn in
mind Youler's husband, Jimmy, had also been hit to the
back of the head with the axe, and he lay unconscious,

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bleeding in bed as his eighteen month old child sat
in his and his wife's blood. Now, in my opinion,
to accuse the two husbands was most definitely an act
of desperation from the police. They really really needed results
and this was the best that they could come up with.
During the trial of Jimmy Phillips, it was suggested that

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his wife was having an affair and that was his
motive for killing her, that he somehow killed her, but
not before she managed to hit him on the back
of the head with the axe, and yet he still
managed to drag her body out through the garden and
into the alleyway and then returned to his own bed.
It just sounded too ridiculous. His foot was also compared

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to a bloody footprint left at the scene of the crime,
and a surgeon also gave a statement insisting that the
bloodhound sniffed the corpse of Euler and then ran directly
back to Jimmy. Now, despite the fact that all of this,
everyvidence was a joke, to say the least. Jimmy was
actually found guilty and sentenced to seven years. Next was

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a trial of Moses Hancock, the husband of Susan Hancock.
The main bit of evidence against Moses was a letter
that was found that Susan had written, claiming that she
could no longer tolerate his drinking and intended to leave him.
It was suggested that Moses saw this letter and decided
to kill his wife. However, the daughter of Moses testified

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that her father had no knowledge of the letter, and
with that he was released, and it wasn't long after
that that Jimmy Phillips was also released. Due to lack
of evidence, there was just no solid leads apart from
a footprint left by the murderer that seemed to be
missing a toe, and to this day, nobody knows who
committed these murders. But there was one other suspect, well two,

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but let's first talk about Nathan Elgin. On the ninth
of February of the ya, whilst Jimmy and Maleses were
in custody, Nathan Elgin was in a saloon purchasing drink
after drink after drink for himself. And a girl named Julia.
His intentions were clear. He wanted Julia to come home
with him. However, when Julia refused his advances, Nathan started

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to beat on her right there in the busy saloon,
and no one intervened. They simply allowed it to happen.
Nathan then dragged Julia by her out of the saloon
and two blocks away into his house, and there he
carried on the beatings. The saloon manager had followed with
a few customers and called for the police, but still
no one tried to stop the man beating on the girl. Eventually,

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Officer John Bracken arrived and asked the crowd that had
formed for help to subdue the man who was still
beating on the girl inside the house. The saloon manager
and a man off the street offered to help, and
he entered the house. They tried in vain to restrain
the man, who actually pulled out a knife and threatened them.
The men backed off, but Officer Bracken tried to calm
Nathan Elgin down, but Elgin pounced, knocking the officer back

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into the street, back into the crowd of people that
have formed outside the house, and for some reason someone
in that crowd fired off a gun and in a panic,
Officer Bracken, who thought Elgin had shot at him, pulled
his own pistol and shot Elgin. The bullet went into
his spine and paralyzed him, and a few days later
Elgin was dead. Now it turns out that Nathan Elgin

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had a history of violence, being involved in gunfights and
even sending threatening letters to the Sheriff's office threatening to
kill him. Elgin was nineteen years old and he was
a cook at a restaurant and he also lived there.
He also had a wife, who was a servant girl,
and two children, and they lived in the home of
her employer. But why was Elgin a suspect in the murders. Well,

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on his right foot there was only four toes, just
like the footprints left behind, a piece of evidence that
the police had kept secret for some reason. But even
this story cannot be trusted because some believe it did
not play out this way. Some believe the woman he
dragged home was actually his wife, who had gotten drunk
and was embarrassing him. Some also believe that officer Bracken

(27:08):
actually shot Elgin in the back, and a cover up
by the police was arranged. And then there's a possibility
that Elgin's toe had been removed after death by corrupt
police officers, and they did this to finally give the
people of Austin closure. Regardless, there was no hard evidence
that Elgin was a murderer, and there was no confession
before his death. But the murders did stop after the

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death of Euler Phillips, and you could say that they
stopped after the death of Elgin. But ultimately, to this day,
no one knows who the Servant Girl Annihilator was. However,
there is one other suspect. Some even theorized that the
killer may have fled the country and continued killing in
London in eighteen eighty eight in Whitechapel. Yes, some believe

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that the Servant Girl Annihilator could have also been Jack
the Ripper himself. Me, I'm not too convinced. The murders
committed by the Servant Girl Annihilator and the murders committed
by Jack the Ripper were just too different for me,
and in my opinion, it just doesn't fit. The servnt
Girl Annihilator was one of the first serial killers in
American history, and like I said, to this day, the

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case still remains unsolved and the mystery remains, and though
we have it that was the case of the Servant
Girl Annihilator. I actually enjoyed doing this one. I had
never heard of this before. It was quite new to me,
and doing a bit of reading upon this case, I
found out that it was largely forgotten to history until

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recently when it kind of come back into the spotlight.
And I'm so glad that it did because it was
a real compelling story. I think these kind of stories
are far more creepy when you don't actually find out
who the killer actually was, much like Jack the Ripper,
which was mentioned at the end of this. But yeah,
there are quite a few ax murders out there. I
think I've covered quite a few of them now. I've

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done the Veliska axe murders, I've done this one. Of course,
I've done Lizzie Borden. I'm sure there's another one, but
I can't bring it to mind at the moment, but
it is somewhere in my library if you want to
go back and check it out. Whilst I was writing
this episode, I did put a poll out on YouTube
asking what kind of story you would like to hear
next from me, and a lot of you did suggest
a ghost story, and we've not had a good ghost

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story in so long, with covered cases such as the
m phil Pultergeist, the Black Monk of Pontefract, and so
many others. It'd be nice for delve back into a
good old fashioned ghost story. And that reminds me. If
you guys want to suggest a topic for the podcast,
you can always reach out to me on Instagram. That's
the place to find me. I don't really use Facebook.
I'm on Twitter, which isn't called Twitter anymore. Is it

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called x as it changed again. I think Elon Musk
has just sold it. I'm not sure I'm on THEK,
but primarily I'm over on Instagram, and that is where
you can find me, and you can pop in and
suggest a topic or just come in and say hi,
have a chat, tell me what you think of the podcast. Also,
I would be so grateful if you could head over
to iTunes and give the podcast a review, if you

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haven't done so already, that would really help the show
gain a little bit more traction. So if you could
actually leave a review, if you haven't left one before,
I would be so grateful and I also like reading
them as well, and just knowing what you guys think
of the podcast, whether it'd be bad or good. A
little bit of constructive criticism I don't mind at all.
I actually find it quite helpful. For example, I had

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a review not long ago were this person said that
they loved the podcast, thank you very much, but they
also wish that the episodes were a little bit longer.
All I can say to that is I'll work on that.
I'll try to make them a little bit longer. But
sometimes the story just isn't that long, and it doesn't
take long to tell the stories. Sometimes I just want
to get it out there. If I discover a story

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that is short, I will post it and it may
only cover maybe ten minutes to fifteen minutes. But maybe
in future, maybe I should take those shorter stories and
you know, put them into one big episode. Maybe, so
I'll think on for the future. So that is some
constructive criticism that I've actually taken on board, and yeah,
I'm going to consider it in the future. The last

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episode of Bizarre Podcasts was a listener story, which I
actually would like to do more of these. There are
plenty of good stories out there for me to cover.
But let's face it, most of them we've all heard before.
It's great to have listener stories, personal stories of things
that are mysterious and strange and bizarre that have happened

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to you, and I'd love to talk about them here
on the podcast, maybe even get a few of you
on the podcast. That's something I've never done before, and
I'm feeling like maybe the time is right to go
into that, maybe to embrace that. So that's something to consider.
So yeah, if you have a story to tell, or
you want to suggest a future topic for the podcast.

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Other an Instagram is where you can reach me. You
can also email me if you wish. I'll leave my
email address in the podcast description just underneath this episode.
So until next time, guy, take care of yourselves on
each other, and I will see you very very soon
for a spooky Gholt story. Bye bye,