The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-05-29
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
| A Nan Murders His Brother in Cold
! Blood-Traglc Termination Of 4
Family Feud-The Murderer Still at
Largo. sah h1e 'si yue -.
! Another has been added to the already
long list of hopicides that have occurred
in this county and, for utter disregard ol
ALT ties of consanguinity, for deliberate, cold
blooded atrocity, this last great crime
stands forth in hideous prominence, with
scarcely parallel in the criminal annals Of
the country. Last Thursday morning Ohm
HOGAN, farmer in the town of Coopers.
town, deliberately killed bis brother, MAR
TIN HOGAN, BY striking him With an axe,
driving the blade into his brain until the
helve rested against his skull This act
was committed in broad daylight, and in
the presence of witnesses. 1t was not re-
suit Of intoxication, for the murderer had,
but moment before, been conversing ra-
tionally and quietly, and was to all appears
ance perfectly sober. It was not the re-
! suit of ungovernable. momentary passion,
for the brothers had not met before on that
morning, and no words passed between
them when they came together for the last
time-the one to be sent, without warning,
into the presence Of his Maker by broth
er's hand, the other to 60 out upon the
world with the mark of Cain upon bis
brow, wsnderer upon the face of the
earth, but With no pursuer 50 merciless as
his own guilty conscience. 1t was cold>
blooded, premeditatea murder, committed
to avenge real or fancied wrongs the muir
derer had received at the hands of his VIC
tim. There had been bad blood between
the brothers for gears. The cause of the
| estraDgement between them, which has ter
minated thus tragicalIy, as near as we can
learn, is substantially as follows: .ee
Some ten or twelve years ago JOHN and
MARTIN HOGAN came to this county an d
settled, in the town of Cooperstown,
near the Brown county line, upon l60 acr rs
of wild land, each owning 80 acres
| Whether MARTIN originally bought the
l60 acres for himself and afterwards sold
half to his brother, or whether be bought
80 for each, we do not know, and it is i'm
material but MARTIN it was who transact
ed the business Of purchasing the land and
having the necessary papers made out. and
he it was who indicated to his brother
where the line ran which divided the two
eighties. JOHN HOGAN went to work upon
the eighty acres assigned to him by his
brother, clearing it off, cultivating and 9TH
erWise improving it-making farm Of
what had before been wilderness After
four or five years had passed away, MAR,
TIN came to JOHN and told him that there
had been a mistake made in running the
line between the TIVE farms; that instead
: # running as he had at first indicated,
it should have been run in an opposite di
rection, and this proved to b. the case
MARTIN averrcd that the division of the
land in the first place had been made BY
him in good faith, and that he had only
just discovered the mistake that had been
made, but he claimed the benefit of all the
Improvements that had been made upon
the portion of JOINS eighty that would be
his under the new division. JOHN, how.
ever, did not credit these professions OF in
nocence he believed that MARTIN had
deceived him from the first that he had
purposely made wrong division of the
land in order that he might claim the benefi;
of the labor bestowed upon it by him
| (JoHN) when it should become improved
and enhanced 10 value. Criminations and
recriminations followed. and they beca m G
implacable enemies. This was some six OF
seven years ago. Since then the feud be.
tween the two brothers has grown daily
more bitter, until it eliminated in the
tragedy Of last Thursday. The wives Of
the two men took an active Fart in the
quarrel, and added fuel to the fame; they
we're not sparing of their abuse, and the
two families have been engaged in almost
constant litigation since. There is scarcely
lawyer here that enc or the other has not
been to for advice, and we believe there is
now pending = slander case in the Circuit
Court Of this county, in which Mrs. JOHN
HOGAN il the defendant. But, although
they quarreled about nearly everything, the
dispute about the land was the main bone
of contention, and had never been satisfae.
torily adjusted To settle the vexed ques.
ton finally, and to obtain what he asser ted
was his rightful share Of the property,
MARTIN HOGAN came to Manitowoc on
Wednesday Of last week, and engaged the
services of Mr.. FAYETTE ARMsBY, in order
to have the land again surveyed, and the
dividing line established and strked out.
Mr. ARMsBY went 70 Coopcrstown with
him, and on Thursday morning be and
MARTIN HOGAN, assisted by a son of MAR
TIN MAcsAMARA, who was brothef.in>
Law Of MARTY HooAs, began the survey.
They had commenced establishing the line,
aud had run two tallies and part Of an.