Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-05-08
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In July, 1851, a young man landed at
La Crosse from one Of the Prairie du Chen
an,l st. Paul packets lie proceeded a.
rectly to livery stable and hired a horse
'aad buggy for the purpose, as he. stated, %
going some distance back into the country.
From this trip he returned just at dusk,
and, IN paying the stable keeper, displayed
$500 in money, all in bills of $50 and
1900 One Of the flties was given to the
stable keeper who returned tire requisite
change a man named William John vas
standing in the stable at the time and wit
messed the transaction. lie followed the
boy, on leaving the stable, and this was the
last time tie, latter was seen al.v. About
two weeks afterwards, his bedy was fshed
out cf tie river, by some men drawing a
seine 1t had been stabbed four tines ii
the region Of the heart The body was
quite naked. Not far from tie same time
jewelry store in La Crosse WIS robbed Of
$4,000 .s7orth Of goods. No clue was OBJ
tanned 70 the perpetrator Of either Of these
crimes until some months afterward.
There were living in la c. ese 1t that
time four Germans, named L. Reisner, Al
bert Mallow, William John, and Charles
Reisnor, engaged in the u tchering bust
ness, and it was pretty generally suspected
that the great por ion Of their stock was
stolen from farmers and othors in the neigh
borhood. They at length got into difficult
ty in regard to burning another BUTCHERS
barn, anl fled the country. Maliov LETT
/ his wife and child III La CT sse They
had been gone about three months, when
Malow's wife, becoming reduced to abso~
lutte want, sold some jewelry in liquidation
Of her board This was found to be por-
ton CT tie goods stolen from the store Of
Pate. a search warrant was Immediately
taken out, and IN the house in which this
woman had been living unlawfully with r
! Reisner, about $1,000 worth Of jewelry was
found in trunk under the bed, together
with the clothes Of the murdered boy, lden-
titled by The stabs through them correspoR-
ding with the wounds up,n his body
Mrs Mallow and neisuer were arrested
and confined in jail.
The clue thus afforded to Inc perpetra-
tors Of both the crimes was then taken up
BY Mr.. Coulry, who followed their trail
until az Tic implicated parties ere arcs
ted. Malow was found At Council Bluffs,
Iowa, in the bntchering business, under the
name of William Teale. John was found
ii Missouri, near Leavenworth City, at
work in a say mill lie lad a shanty il
the woods, where about $1,000 wotth Of the
stolen jewe3ry was also found Onthe way
} down the Missouri River the prisoner,
heavily ironed jumped overheard and was
drowned. Charles Reisner, The last Of The
gang, was arrested at Peoria day before
yesterday. About $4,000 worth Of the sto-
) len jewelry was found IN his possession -
CAicogo I'iascs.
| CIT Jim had read the we'll known
story Of G eoEse }Eashii gtcn'slo9e Of truth,
ana the f;ttAcy's love of jhe noble principle
Of his son. so well manifested on the occa-
sicnr ferrel to, Of Georges cutting down
toe cherry tree, demonstrating his trans
eressiaa, an$ gesai5ine a full and siae par
Goa, be-3 les praises anl Lind caresses from
lis father ~ Him, attuated by the noble
example, snppled himself with . Ratchet,
ami going ia!o his fathers orchard, cut
Gown Sou4A choice fruit trees. lie then
ao5ly sat down to awt;t the oil man s COM
jug, and, as sQon as he m1Ae his appear
auec, alareieA alb to him with very i'm
por,aut air and acknowledged the deed, OK
pccting the ncxt thing III the programme to
be tears, bcncdiction. aud embraces from
the offended parent Bur. sad to relate, in
stead of this, tho Old gentleman caught mp
. korv and cave him an s'ali fred laua