The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-04-19
Horrible Murder In Appsnoose County.

dOfflOle Murder In App0nOOSe County.
CENTERyIkLE, Iowa. l
april 9Th 1862
EDITORS MERCURY have this morning
seen the victims of one the most outrageous,
brutal and inhunian murders that it is possible
for the mind to conceive Certainly one of the
most heartless and cold booded which has
ever occurred in this State. While am writ
ing the Coroner is holding an inquest over the
unfortunate victims, and | am unable to give
you their verdict. However / have made a
personal examination of the bodies and have
obtained the following facts. On Friday last,
there was a man and woman in town making
some inquiries or preparations for some depo-
sitions in regard to divorce case, pending in
the Decatur county court. the woman giving
her name as King, the man not giving his
name; but it is supposed however, to be Frazier
from pass book found in his pocket. They
left town on Friday evening for the
west, in a one horse spring wagon
drawn by large bay horse and en-
camped at "Walnut creek" bridge, about eight
miles from here, and perhaps 100 yards from
the road. The wagon was seen by man on
Saturday morning, but no one about, and on
passing by in the evening and still no one seen,
went down to the wagon and found the man
and woman before mentioned, murdered in the
wagon, having evidently been murdered the
night previous.
From their appearance they were murdered
during the night time, and while they were
asleep, they being brought here just as they
were found in bed in the wagon. They were
in the following position: The man on the
right side OF the wagon, with the left arm I'M
der the body or neck of the woman and his
right arm folded across his breast, and his face,
Tin my orinion) chopped to pieces with hatch
Af bic hnaI ,a11-
pieces with knife, and he undoubtedly did
not struggle, as his hand was entirely free.
and was not even bloody. He had on blue
jeans pants and calico shirt. Dark hair, sandy
whiskers, and fair skin, and would weigh from
l15 to 1856 pounds, and from appearance about
thirty five years old. The woman is of medium
height, tolerably heavy SET dark fair hair, fair
skin, about thirty, and had on q delain dress
las adeep cut in the right ear and one about the
jugnlar vein below the right ear some three
inches deep, and marking the neck about one
third around, and having both hands slightly
wounded and several other severe cuts on the
head, all, in my opinion, done with knife,
her hands only spattered with blood, her right
arm lying across her breast, and her hands
slightly closed. Both were in their stocking
feet The wagon sheet was drawn over them,
the wagon having some of the bows out of the
nm" Gnu, anu 'hc SHect WAS uraWn u0Wn close
to their faces. The sheet has about twelve
holes cut throughit, and it was only few inch
es from their faces. Some are of the opinion
that some of the wounds were made with pis,
tol, but am convinced it is mistake,
s. A. King, husband of the murdered woman
was also in town on Friday, and left in the
evening and stopped Mt the house of John Cor
den Esq, -four miles from here and between here
and where the murder was committed, and got
his supper at o'clock at night, and said he
must go to Corydon that night, and it is sup
posed he is the murderer, and pursuit is now
being made for him. understand they-King
and wife-have been separated for some time,
and making preparations for a divorce in the
District Court Of Decatur County, Iowa.
Hoping in future to give you more agreeable
news, remain yours, &c. More anon.
W. L. CALLEN