The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-04-27

against il, At an election provided ~ law, and
/ not otherwise.
STEPHEN b. SHELLEDAY,
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives.
ORAN FAvILLE,
| President Of the Senate.
| Approved March 22d, 1855.
RALPH r. LOWE.
| Thereby certify that the foregoing /. true
| copy Of the original roll on 6le ~ my Office.
ELIJAH SELLS,
Secretary Of State.
| The In Crosse Murder and Robbery.
| ..The Lat OF Esur ViliRins Are sea.
i From the Peoria Union Of the 10th.
We were called upon yesterday by J. r. Cou.
| dry. Esq, United States Marshal for the State
/ OF Wisconsin, who related TO us the following
facts relative to murder committed in the city
OF La Crosse, in that State. in July last. In the
month Of July last, an unknown boy landed in
the city Of LIN Crosse, on a morning about the
middle Of the month, from one Of the line heats
! running from Prairie dn Chen TO ST. Paul. Pro-
ceeding from the boat he went TO livery stable
and hired horse, stating il TO be his object TO
/ 60 back and see the interior Of the country
He went, and returned between sun down and
dusk, and in settling for the horse he displayed
in the neighborhood of five hundred dollars in
| money, divided into ffiies and hundreds, having
nothing less than ffties. He gave one Of these
to be changed to the livery keeper, who pro-
| cured the change, and giving it to he boy he
| departed. man by the name Of William John,
one Of the four murderers, the last Of whom
was arrested in this city yesterday morning,
was standing in the stable at the time, and see
ing this money followed up the boy, and this
was the last time the stranger boy was seen or
heard OF alive. Some two weeks afterwards,
some men hauling sein, fshed up body,
which proved 10 be that Of the unfortunate
youth. A lateral wound was found upon hs
face, which had evidently been given with .
heavy steel. The body also stabbed four
times in the region of the heart. He was like
wise without 4 particle OF clothing. Abou. this
time the jewelry store OF A. Patze, in La Crosse,
was robbed Of eight thousand dollars worth Of
Jewelry, and some eight hundred dollars in
money. Asthis point it is proper to state that
there were four Germans residing At La Crosse,
named respectively, L. Keisner, Albert NARROW
or Mallow, William, John and Charles Resner.
The latter was known in this city by the name
Of Charles Herse, and was arrested yesterday
morning. These Germans we're engaged in the
butcher business, and were known to steal their
stock, all about the vicinity, until one night
NARROW or Mallow had a difficulty with another
butcher, named French, and became so eAaspe-
rated that he went the same night and broke
burned down the barn. This last act so enraged
the people that the offender arrested and
tried, and was sworn clear by mis- partners and
accompces, after which be was arrested and
bound over for stealing cattle; forfeitins the
bail he absconded, and his coadiutors in crime
disappeared also. MARROW left his wife and
child in La Crosse. They had been gone some
three months when Marlow's wife, becoming
reduced to absolute want, sold some jewelry in
liquidation of her board This jewelry, upon
tracing it, was found to be portion Of the
goods stolen from the store Of Patze.
A search warrant was immediate taken out,
and Mrs. Marlow's spouse, who was living un-
lawfully with the man Keisner, was searched,
and thousand dollars worth of jewelry was
found in trunk under the bed, together with
the identical clothes OF the murdered boy, iden-
tilted by the wounds upon them corresponding
with the wounds u,on his body. Mrs. NARROW
and keisner were arrested and confined in Jail.
Here was clue to the murder, and well founded
suppositon pointed to the fact that NARROW had
fed to and living At Council Bluffs. Mr..
Marshal Coudry volunteering to pursue all four
of the implicated, procured the proper papers
from Gov. Randall, Of Wisconsin,, and Gov.
Lowe, of Iowa, and started Immediately for
Council Bluffs, Iowa. Crossing the river ut Du-
buque, and finding the stage had left, he
promptly engaging livery team and overlook
the stage. Arriving at Cedar Rapids, he found
the bridge carried away by the extraordinary
rise of the river, and the ice floating so as to
render any passage by teams or ferry inpossi
Bile. With the courage Of hero, he engaged u
boat and necessary assistance, crossed the river,
and proceeded on his way against nnfavorable
elements, travelling night and day, until he ar
rived at Council Bluffs There lie got track Of
NARROW, who, it seems, bad assumed the names
Of VIM. Teale and VIM. Deale, and was engaged
there butcher. Suspicion had already been
fastened upon him in that place, as engaged in
similar crimes, of which he had been suspected,
as those in La Crosse. BY the prudent and
timely assistance OF officers, NARROW was arrest.
cd, and Mr.. Coudry successfully waited upon
the dangerous culprit until he was safely lodged
in the Jail at La Crosse.
After securing Marrow, Marshal Coudry pro-
cured a second requisiton, on Gov. Denver, Of
Kansas, from Gov Randall, for the body Of
William John. Promptly proceeding to Kansas,
and searching about Leavenworth City and
vicinity, spending seven days fruitlessly, he
finally succeeded in capturing him in the State
Of Missouri about six miles from Leavenworth
City, back in the woods. The course adopted
by Marshal Coudry was AS successful as it was
sagacious. Proceeding to the saw mil where
he had reason to suppose NARROW was employed,
he struck bargain with his employer for some
ten or fifteen thousand feet Of lumber, with the
idea of building house, meantime surveying
the ground, and looking about for his prisoner.
Alter partially bargaining for the lumber, aud
stating that he would see him again, Mr.. Coudry
casually observed that the lumber dealer, he
believed, had an old acquaintance in his employ,
and he proposed to see him. The man being
asked, he was told that the man was cutting
logs nearly quarter of mile from the mill
Remarking that he would probably find time to
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dately lett upon his return to Leavenworth,
where he procured sufficient assistance to arrest
his man, and going straight back found him, and
securely manacled him. Upon going to Johns
house, farther back iii tue woods, he found there
secreted some four thousand dollars worth of
Patze's jewelry.
On the 10th day Of March, the Marshal. with
his prisoner, shackled and handcuffed, the iron
weighing twenty-five pounds, embarked upon
the steamer Sioux City, for St. Louis. Between
Miami and Dewitt, ON the Missouri river he
jumped overheard, shackles and all, and was
drowned. The Marshal returning to La Crosse
with the ewelry, at once procured another re-
QUESTION upon Gov. Bissel, OF this State for the
body Of Charles Reisner alias Charles Hcrse. !
After looking for him some eight or ten DAYS
he was traced to this city and arrested yes crdav
morning, securely ironed and placed in the city
Jail, from whence he will be taken to La Crosse,
Wisconsin, where we may soon expect 10 learn
Of his suffering the penalty Of his completely in
this enormous crime by submitting his neck to
the well deserved halter.
The circumstances Of his arrest were a. fol-
lows: Marshal Coudry arrived in this city in
the early morning train from Dixon, and soon
finding the Whereabouts Of his prisoner, with
the assistance Of Capt. Grouse, Of the Peoria
police, arrested him at his meat shop on Jeffer-
son street. When approached he denied all
knowledge Of the bloody murder, not even
stacking down" when some two thousand dol
lars worth Of Patze's jewelry was found in his
trunk.
1t il necessary to state, as illustrative Of the
prisoners antecedents, that he was convicted, in
Chicago, in june 1865, of grand larceny, and
sentenced to Alton for two years. Having
served out his time there he was released, and
went TO La Crosse, where he had mos been six
weeks before he participated in the murder Of
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