, 1864-07-31

STA AR.rL1Na REVELATIONS
A Murder Concealed for nearly three
&curA

The Laporte Ind.) Democrat contains
long account Of the arrest Of man named
steltz IN that county, fora murder cosnm,t,
ted In Auguet OF 1861, nearly three years ago.
The facts, III brief, are these:
Steltz was building saw. mill few miles
north OF Laro1te, and h,d in Lis employ a
man named Vol Jceseda, both being Ger
mans. These men had frequent uuarrels
about mo, sy, which Won Jesseda ALLEGED
that Sttltz owed him for work done, AID
reiustd to pay. The two men, du.in. the
warm weatpcr, were IN the habit of s,eepIne
IN hay NOV, stcltz bsing bachelor, and
hts sister keepsng house for aim.
On the IN orDlng OF The 10Th Of August the
old qna1rel Was renewed, aud the men got
to scntil'ng in the mo~, and tlnally both fell
through to the barn floor, Won Jesetda not
be,n yet dressed. Won J, rAn to the house.
bis hand tleedipg Steltz followed him. and
as eoon 90 he ceDa In rtach struck htu1 se-
we're bio" Oh the head with an Iron bar which
he had picked no, knock,n., hi In do IN sense
leee. Being near the cellar way when he fell
6ttlfZ kfcked him down intn the cellar: and
tearing that bis work Was not fully accom-
piiehed. he fofloEed down and pounded toe
body with board Tor some tiule. rhe whole
transaction at the house Was "itneesed by
Mar, Sieltz, who was arnused from sleep hy
the boise ut the door, She eudcavored to
dIesuade her brother from bis purpose. but
be rudcly thrust her buck into another part
Of the ruom. After he had beaten tue bod5
some time, lie came out Of the cellsr leaylr,
the body. where It fell. a. then left the
place, aud dltt not return until the next day
As soou as Mary could drees herself sud get
ready, she left the house, and went to q house
Were Jacnb F1anzea w6s working to whom
sbe Ras eneHgeu TO be married. She told
hAN ho ru1 %I<,,k
afrs'd TO remain there any Longer unlcss ue
W"t there. They agreed to yet masriad soon,
possibly the ne1t dag. The da, after the oc.
cu11ence they went back to the house ami
reina'ued sherc; Steltz alan returned that ,iay'
Or the next, and the night after his return
In the CT liar, and at one time heard dead,
htns. noise. like the falling OF heavy body,
which they supposed to made by Steltz
th1oWinR the cnrpse lntp the grave which hu
dug for It Daring the time be was occu.
LIED Ut the burial he came mp ttairs four or
I've times aud drnuk whIskey, in order to
nerve htnssif for the work.
!, lie kinuzcns agroel to eay nothing about
the nntttr TN account Of the dl-gr zee It
monld brftg upon the family But later,
Mary wrote to sister, a Mrs. Brown. II
Germany, stating what bad occurred. After
az Inc me browns lmml:rated to 1nniana,
hbo m III partnership qu4rrel bet -een them
anu Sfeltz Was r. ne -ed, twhen Bro~n be-
coming e1aspt rated, Threatened to expose the
U1rder- SteltZ dared him to do so The
fratz' ns, beattng what had occurred, Thought
1t Tas time to unseil the whole natter to Toe
aut hor1ties, and upon their information
stettz Was ARRESTED On digging tor thc body
In tue cellar only email portion OF tho re
mains we're tound. On beiug asked to make
clean breast Of the matter, Steltz did 70,
Stain < that be had subsequently taken up
the oooy ind burned it. 1t seems, however,
that The body wss so much decompoecd that
he did not get all of it The murderer was
fully committed for trial.
Tb's Ia certainly very curious case, and
In ordiuary umee would create us much ex-
c,tement In community as big battle does
now.