The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-31
MURDERS IN VIRGINIA AND MIssOURI
horrible Murders In VirgintR-An Old
Man md his WHO the XIotIma.

NuruerS IN NtrGintN-An OlN
Man and his wife the Victims.
From the Fredericksburg Ledger, AaguSt 20.
Not more than ten days have elapsed since
this community we're horror stricken by recital
OF the facts connected With the brutal murder
of Judson Motley, but TO-DAY IT is our duty as a
Journalist, 70 chronicle the details of a double
crime, by the side Of which the late murder of
Judson Motley pales into insig gni6cauce. Within
slght oil the town, not more than mile an n
half outside of the corporation limits, murder
combined with arson has been perpetrated, aud
the hell fend or tienos walk the earth undis-
covered.
But to our narrative. Gustavus Limerick and
Nancy, DIS wife, aged persons. and both over
seventy years OF age, living not more than
mile and halt from town, we're murdered some
time between Saturday night ana Sunday morn
ing, and their dwelling, plain wooden tene-
ment, burned to the ground, The fire was seen
between IL and O'Clock, both In this place and
Falmouth.
1t seems that Mrs. Archie Roy discovered the
ire just before day, and at that time 1t seemed
to be dying out. She aroused her husband: out
he thinking the fire had gone so far that no
efforts would be availing to save the property
did not go to the fire until about 10 o'clock next
morning, at which time he and Mr.. LetCh, who
lives at 1lr. A. X Phillips place, went to the
fire in company. Arriving there they found
the house burnt, and the remnants of a human
being in mutila'ed and burnt condition in the
chimney hearth, the back part of the skull evl-
IDENTIFY having been broken.
They started at once for a magistrate and
constable in order to holu an inquest. A Jury
was soon summoned, and Mr.. G. b. Wallace
county magistrate, summoned as coroner. Jus
before the party had assembled and as the
parties were riding up from Falmouth, the
barking of dog attracted the attention Of q
gentleman little aside from the high road, and
there, cold in death, was Gustavus Limerick
the old man before referred to, attended by h
faithful dog. The old mans skull was fractured
evidently, as we learn, by the blow of an axe.
One OF his pockets was turned inside out, bu
otherwise his clothing was undisturbed. The
body, or skeleton found in the house, proved to
be that of Nancy p. Limerick, the wife of Gus
tavus W. Limerick. 1t Is conjectured that the
deed was done for plunder as it is known that
the old people kept money by them. They were
inoffensive, and harmless in every sense. The
CoroDers jury returned a verdict that the par
ties came to their death by violence, at the
hands of some person or persons to the jury un-
known, who murdered these old people for
plunder. Two men, strangers, were seen IN the
neighborhood Saturday morning, but our ia
fOrmant says that there is not much likelihood
that they had anything to do with the murder.
A Mother Killed in Bed with a Child in
her Arms.
From the 50. Louis Times august 2s,
On Sunday night one of the most appalling
exhibitions of crime which shock the moral
sense of a community was perpetrateG at house
No. 8ll SOulard street, resulting in the death
of good looking married lady named Catha-
riue Sdegler, wife of German carpenter. The
husband had gone out, in company with his
two eldest daug hters, to drink beer at q garden
in the neighborhood, leaving the wife in bed
with her infant child. The murderer clandcs-
timely entered her bedroom with club in his
hand, and dealt her two terrible blows, one
over the lett ear and another over the eye,
fracturing her skull, and killing her Instantly.
So instantaneous was her death that the infant
child was found clasped in her arms, unawa-
kened by the atrocity.
Mrs. Stiegler was thirty-fve years of age and
is said TO have been married two or three times.
She is exceedingly comely in appearance, with
beautiful black hair, tall and fair complexion.
former husband, named Quasi, was incarce-
rated IN the penitentiary for grand larceny, and
a pedder OF cheap jewelry on the levee also
claims to have been married TO her. 1t is highly
probable that one OF these desperadoes com
mitted the deed, though no positive proof mas
as yet been adduced.