The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-13
MURDERS sc.

Murders, death caused by railroad cas-
ualties, murder trials, coroner's inqrests,
and hangings seem to be the
order Of he day. Scarcely day passes
but the papers contain an account of
them. The head becomes weary and the
heart sick in reading them. If ignorance
is ever bliss, we think 1t must be in these
matters. We give but a few of them to
our readers. THE TELEGRAPH is not large
enough to contain an account of q quarter
of them. And we sometimes feel to
take no notice of any them. And we
think our readers would scarcely be the
losers if we allowed ourself to be gov
erned by our feelings
A fiendish murder was committed
about three weeks ago by Martin Mera
near Onargo, ILL., He tortured his boy,
about ten years old to death BY burning
him on the stove and whipping him with
a black snake horse whip. He whipped
him severely one night and, the boy be-
ing unable in the morning to make a fire
in the stove when called, he made fire
himself, and when the stove was hot be
placed him on it naked, and after the boy
got off he again placed him with his feet
on the stove and held him there. And
after the boy got off again, he whipped
him till he died, the boy all the time
asking his father not to burn, not to
whip bin. After the boys death he
buried him and reported that he had run
away, ard threatened his family with
death should any of them tell of the boys
death. Some two weeks after it was
ascertained from sister of the boy
at school that their brother was dead
and how he came to his death. The body
was found and the facts disclosed at q
coroners inquest. Mera was arrested and
placed in Jail. A number ofappointments
were made to take him from the Jail and
hang HIM, Finally large number OF
men went te the Jail, overpowered the
jaiior, broke open the doors, took Mera
out, placed him in wagon, drove him
about mile away under tree, gave him
half an hour, extended the time still
longer, placed rope around his neck
and tied the other end to limb of tree
overhead, and drove the wagon from
under him. A thousand persons were
present. He called on the masons
to come to his rescue, but they
came not. He then denounced the
masons, and called on the methodists, but
the methodists came not, and he denounc
ed them. Some one told him to call upon
God as he alone could save him. He
then called upon Jesus and the Virgin OF
some other power to save him. Aside
from the taking from the Jail and hang
ling everything was orderly. The body
was left hanging till morning, when his
friends claimed it.
! This must suffice for an account Of
murders, lnquests, Lynchingand hanging
| for the present
A HIGH OLD FOURTH OF JULY.-Ou
the 4th instant an excursion party ascend
ed Gray's Peak, Col, leaving Georgetown
at 5 o'clock in the morning. "Matilda
Fletcher and Mrs. A. w. Barnard, accom-
panied by Commodore Decatur, were oil
the party. The ladies made the ascent
with difficulty, by two o'clock in the af
ternoon, and raised the stars and stripe.
there, ON the pinnacle of one OF the loft.
!, lest mountains in the Rocky Mountain
chain, with this inscription upon it: He
who tears this down is the enemy of his
country A party had congregated there
composed of the following gentlemen
Rev. E. E. L. Taylor, of New York !; Pro
lessor Blaisdell, of Beloit, Wis; Robert
i Atkinson, of the Lawrence Tribune; FL
r. Jones. Ell. B. Bates, Colonel Bartlett
Walter Ellis, III. Biddle, w. T. Rich, r.
7 w. Crosby and son, and the writer. The
Commodore was called upon for Fourth
,Iof July grafton. He madea few forcible
and appropriate remarks. Mrs. Fletcher
contributed q beautiful poem to the oc