Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-04-13

81 etrofa-A S1nto.wa Ipu.S..
Brothers, sister, and Maid Servant.
4 A correspondent sends TO the London
Timei tho following account, literally
translated from the German papers ,'of
a murder OF an exceptionally barbarous
nature, committed Inst August in Schlcs-
wig-Holstein, the perpetrAtor Of which
has recently been condemned to death
IrzEBoE, February Am unheard-of,
crime was perperrated In August Of last
year i'm Gross-Campen. Timm Thode,
~ peasants son, 20 yearSof age, mur-.
dered with unequslled barbarity his
whole household-viz.: his parents, his
four brothers, his sister, and O maid SER
want. Timm Thods's confession, made
without a sign Of repentance, gives full
explanation Of the motive for and mode
Of carrying into execution the crime.
The accused related he had been on an
unfriendly footing with his brothers
Johann, Martin and Cornils; his rela-
tons, also, with his father had not been
Of the best kind. As regarded the rest
Sc the family, he thought they were
Z" middlihg."' In the spring Of 1866 he
took the resolution to kill his family,
In order to put an end to the continued
idisputing, then to sell the farm, which
would come to him after their death,
and thus to come into the sole posses
sion Of n considerable fortune The
thought Of accomplishing the decd &C.
Cured to him repeatedly he busted
himself, therefore, not exclusively with
the plan Of action, but thought only
now and then OF its possibility. The
plan Of killing them all ono after an
other in their beds he gave up, rs ho
was afraid the noise resulting from II
might awaken tho rest, aud he would
not arrive at tho wished for result.
On the sixth Of August he had
already laid ready to hand q fve-foot-
long handspike to kill his brothers with.
al would decoy them o after another
into the barn and strike them dead
there" said lie. This intention was not
cnrried into execution, rs he did not
succeed in executing the plan in the way
related. On Tuesday, the It'll Of An
gust, his parents left home with u
ncighbor (Schwarzkopf) in order to pay
II visit to some acquaintnnces. Timm
'Thode easily managed to go behind his
brothers, Martin, Cornils, and Reimers,
one ut II time, rs they were engaged in
work, and her struck the brothers, one
after the other, from behind, with the
five foot handspiko, which was thick ut
the lower end. Martin falls first by his
brothers. murdcroushand, then Reimers
aud Cornils. lie strikes Johann over
the head. This one staggers to and fro,
and cries to his brothers. The MUIR
dcrer brindishes the handspiks anow,
and then strikes him dead. Now tho
father must be disposed Of. Timm, by
telling him the oxen have broken loose,
COTS him to come ont before the front
door, and strikes him down in front Of
the larmyard. He brings tho remains
Of his father back TO the house in a cart,
and removes the stains Of blood by dig
ging up the earth, which lie, throws
into the car rs we'll. Two watchful
dogs are in tho courtyard Of johann
Thode. These might prove dangerous
to tho murderer; therefore no must dis
pose Of them. The dogs arc attached
TO him. lie entices them to him, places
u knot round the throat of the first and
hangs him up. Thereupon he calls the
other dog /; the animal obeys his call.
With his razor he attempts to cut its
throat. He does not quite succeed, and,
bowling, the dog extricates himself
from the hands Of tho murderer. The
mother appears with q lighted candle at
the door, and asks tho reason Of the
noise. cts nothing" maintained
Timm.
Now follows the account Of tho torri-
bic combat.in the small room between
sister and brother. Tho mother lies on
the floor stunned by q blow from the
Ratchet. The sister springs out Of bed
in order to save the mother. He strikes
out ut the sister with n knife, and then
strikes her dead with the Ratchet. The
mother still groans ; BIO strikes her dead
also. Finally, he runs to the servant
girls room, feels about in the darkness
for the head end Of tho bed, strikes up
on it twice with the Ratchet, and tho
last murder is accomplished. The girl
dies w~ithouLa sound. "There, l have
them all dead p are his only words.
He then sot fire to the barn to conceal
the deed, and places the corpseS in such
u wny that they must be destroyed at
the breaking out of the FIRE. Tho con-
migration was, nevertheless, discovered
too early, and led, besides other facts,
to so many grounds Of suspicion against
Thode, that he himself, in the course Of
the examination, was driven to confess.
-Timm Thode, iatoly brought TO trial.,
was condemned to death. The con
domhed man left tho court with inde-
scribable placidity.