The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-27
From the Chicago Times
A VIJIAINOJTS GANG CAIGUT

Mr.. J. r. Coudry, Deputy United States Marshal
of Wisconsin, arrived in this city yesterday, hay
| ing in custody German named Charles Reisner
alias Charles lerse, who is charged with the crimes
| of burglary, robbery, and MURDER in La
| Crosse, Wisconsin. Reisner arrested at Peoria,
| where, under the name of Hcrse he has been car
rying on the business of butcher. In the summer
| of 1885, he was arrested in this city by officers
! Rehm and Sauter, for larceny, for which he was
convicted and sentenced for the term of two years
! to the State Prison at Alton. After serving out
his time, he went to La Crosse, where in less than
six weeks after his arrival the murder was com
mitted for which he is arrested.
| The circumstances of the murder Gs follows
! In July, 1851, young man landed at La Crosse
| from one of the Prairie du Chen and st. Paul
packets He proceeded directly to a livery stable
and hired horse and buggy for the purpose, as he
stated of going distance back into the country
From this trip he returned just at dusk and, in pay
ing the stable-keeper, displayed some $500 in
money, all in bills of $50 and $780, One of the
fifties given to the stablc-keeper, who re
| turned the requisite change man named vii
liam John was standing in the stable at the time
and witnessed the transaction. He followed the boy,
on leaving the stable, and this was the last time the
latter was seen alive About two weeks afterwards
his body was ished out of the river by men
drawing seine. 1t had been stabbed four times in
the region Of the heart, and there was also wound
in the face, the effect of a blow with some heavy
weapon. The body was quite naked. Not far from
the time jewelry store in La Crosse was rob-
bed of some $4,000 worth of goods. No clue was
obtained to the perpetrator ofeiher of these crimes
until some months attcrward.
There were living in Lacrosse at that time four
Germans, named L. Resner, Albert Maow, VIII
liam, John and Charles Resner. They were en-
gagged in the butchering business and it pretty
generally suspected that the great portion of their
stock stolen from farmers and others in the
neighborhood They at length got into difficulty in
regard to burning another butchers barn, and
fed the country. Maow left his wife and
child in La Crosse. They had been gone
about three months, when Mallow's wife,
some jewelry in liquidation of her board This jew
elry found to be a portion of the goods stolen
from the store of Patze. a search warrant i'm
mediatey taken out, and in the house in which this
woman had been living unlawfully with i. Keisner,
about 81 900 worth OF jewelry found in a trunk
under the bed, together with the identical clothes of
the murdered boy, identified by the stabs through
them corresponding with the wounds upon his body.
Mrs. Mallow and keisner were arrested and con
fined in jail
The clue thus afforded to the perpetrators of both
the crimes was then taken up by Mr. Coudry, who
followed their trail until all the implicated parties
were arrested. Mallow found at Council Bluffs,
Iowa, in the butchering business, under the name
of William Teae. John was found in Missouri,
near Leavenworth City, at work a mill He
had a shanty in the woods, where about ST, 600
worth of the stolen jewelry also found On the
way down the Missouri river the prisoner, heavily
ironed, jumped overheard and was drowned.
Charles Resner, the last of the gang, arrested,
as we have already stated, at Peoria, day before
yesterday. About 50 900 worth of the stolen jewel
ry was found in his possession, yet he persistently
denies all knowledge of the crimes which the gang
have committed. He was detained in the Jail of
this city yesterday, and will be taken hence to La
Crosse to-day.