East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-09-14
gosal Skaters.
MURDER.

Inc peopleoI our usually peacolu
city were intensely Mortified on Thurs
day morning last TO learn Of a murder
committed the night previous in q
central portion of the city, on the prin.
cipal street, in front of the Everett
House, at by no means late hour, in
the full light Of the moon, it being
clear at the time, and the additional
light from the gas inside, which for
cold blooded audacity, devlish malig-
nifty of intent manifested, and the
mystery with which it is shrouded
finds few corresponding examples in
the annals of crime.
CHARLES RINe, Deputy Marshal of
this city and constable of the LIST
ward, a good officer and quiet, peace
able citizen, aged about 35 years,
single; and unusually large and strong
man, weighing about $50 lbs, whose
parents reside at Attica, Indiana, was
found dead in front of the Everett
House at about twenty minutes past
II o'clock Thursday morning last ly-
ing face downward, his head on the
sill of the front entrance to the Office,
his body across the sidewalk, inclining
slightly up street, under circumstances
which leave no doubt that he was as
sassinated. Mr. Wesley and his clerk,
Brown, were in the office and heard
the report of e. pistol in front but did
not go instantly to the door as they
were somewhat interested in the move
ments of convivial party in tho sa-
loon, consisting of some dozen militia
ny men and their friends. After the
lapse of minute OF so Brown think
ing all was not right, though he had
not heard the fall, went to the door, un.
locked and opened it, when he found
the body in the situation described,
life already extinct. The party in the
saloon were at once called on for as
sistance, and on attempting to raise
the body pistol shot wound was
found in the back of the neck, from
which blood flowed profusely as soon
as its position was changed. The
corpse was then taken into the Office
of the Everett House where it re-
NAMED until removed to an unoocu-
pied building across the street. Fiji
teen or twenty minutes before the ia
tai shot was fired, M. B. Hess left
Ring at the corner of the Hess block
and Immediately retired, he was there
fore the last person-save the murderer
who saw him alive. The situation
OF the wound was such, as testified by
the examining physicians, as to pre-
clude the possibility of its being an
act OF suicide. No person was seen
to leave the spot where the murder
was committed, no traces of such es-
cape wore then or have been since
discovered, no shadow of reason is
known for the commission of such a
crime, the motive for which was evil
IDENTITY not to plumber, and there has
not as yet been developed the slight
est clue whereby even a reasonable
suspicion may be fastened upon any
one. The whole affair is as mysterious
as it is startling and horrid. Many re-
spectacle persons were in the streets
in various parts of the city at the
time of the murder and several reach
ed that immediate vicinity soon after,
but none of them had met any party
or parties whose appearance excited
suspicion.
A post norton examination by Drs.
Lathrop and Hall, revealed the fact
that the bail entered the right side of
the neck two inches back of the ear
on line with the lobe Of the ear, pen
etrated about three inches and lodged
in the bone Of the head, the effect of
which was instantaneous death. The
skin around the wound was blistered
and the hair in the vicinity considera-
bly, burned, showing that the weapon
must have been held close to the neck
when the shot was made.
A coroner's jury consisting of a
number of our most respected citizens
was called by DIR. A. G.. Bissell, who
after careful examination of all the
acts and circumstances obtainable re-
turned a verdict that the deceased
came to his death by wound from a
pistol shot received from person or
persons unknown.