Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-02
FAMILIES POls1NEl).
The Startling Crimes Or = Lunatic In
East New trk.
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who boarded in the house. had pre,
pared the midday meal sor tho little
one. After partaking 81 Tie meal so
provided, young Tibner again went to
school, but soon afterward returned
home, when he found his mother, and
to her complained of violent pains in
the back and head. His mother, sup
posing his illness to be of no serious
moment, paid little attention to the
complaint. After he had seated him.
self i'll chair, however, a singular qui.
etness was noticed in his appearance,
and he soon fell into q comatose state.
He was put to bed. He did not regain
consciousness but once thereafter. until
the hour of his death at three O'Clock
the next morning. It is extraordinary
that the moment when the glimmer Of
consciousness returned, was when
Hubert, who had departed from the
house on the return of the boys moth
er, again entered, and leaning over the
bed where the boy lay, inquired: "How
is sonny?" The lad, then, fixing upon
the man strangely unnatural gaze,
replied: ''You know very we'll what ia
the matter"
THE FIRST CONFESSION.
These were the boys last words. In
the intervals of his illness Doctor
Smith, of East New York, had been
called in, and laboring under the i'm
preston that the boy had died of fever,
the doctor granted burial certificate.
The lad was buried next day, and the
funeral was attended by his Immediate
relatives and the man Hubert. It was
not until after he had been buried that
suspicious were awakened regarding
young Tibner's death. The mother
WAS the first to have her suspicious
aroused. On the day following the
burial of her son, Hubert requested her
to len! him dollar, saying that he de-
sired t. so to the city. As he was
already indebted to her for board, Mrs.
Tibner refused, and Hubert's rejoindel
to the refusal that she Mrs. 1ibner)
chad lost one child and she would lose
more than him. Still no effort was
made to eject him from the house, and
he continued for two days longer to
board and reside with the Tibner family.
THE POISONING OF EMMA q. TIBNER.
Two days after the burial of John O.
Tibner, Emma c., the second child,
was taken violently i'll. She first com:
planned of pains in her knees, which
soon extended to the spinal cord and
cerebellum. These pains were accom-
panied by frequent vomiting. Her i'll
ness began about five O'Clock in the
morning, and terminated in death at
six p. II. During the illness of Emma
G. Tibner, a younger sister named
Grace seemed" as her mother in
formed the reporter, "hearty and
strong" But just after her sisters
death she was seized with every symp-
tom of the ailment that had carried of
the other two children. DR.. Furgany,
q skilled and popular physician of East
New York, was then called in. His
theory was that the girl Grace was suf-
fering from cerebro spinal meningitis.
Rendering his services gratuitously to
the stricken family, he made it work
of love, but could not save the girls
life.
THE SECOND COMPRESSION.
On the girls death an astonishing
admission was made by Hubert, who
again approached Mrs. Tibner with a
request for money. He was met again
with refusal, whereon he went into q
room adjoining that in which he had
held the conversation with Mrs. Tibner,
and there told Sylvester Reed and his
wife, who happened to be in the house,
that he had had his satisfaction. He
added that he was about to leave forth
with, and furthermore sale, ~ poison.
ed John o. 7Tbner!"
Others who have hitherto stood aloot
from this accumulation of tragedies
now come forward to state facts con
firmatory, in some degree, of Hubert'a
admission. One of these says that
Hubert was frequently seen washing
cups, the rinsings of which he threw
out upon the sidewalk. 1t is further
SAID that the dish cloth with which he
cleansed the dishes (something he had
not been requested to do) on the day
when he served the shildren's dinner
could not be found.
INTERCEPTED IN HIS FLIGHT.
Although Hubert made haste to col
lect his clothing and some paints and
tools he had in the house, after the ad
mission above stated, he was intercep
ted in his flight by an officer, who tool
him before Justice Volkner, recently
deceased.
That magistrate committed him te
Jail, and there he remains. 1t is be-
lieved that he is insane; but if so hif
antecedents form a curious history in
tic exploits of madmen.
Hubert is Sweile, and is said tc
have resided in this country fourteen
years. He had been married several
years before his arrest, and was the
father of one child. He was of some
what migratory disposition, and alter.
mated his residences between Flatbush
and East New York. When living ir
the former place, he on once occasion
started for East New York on a colo
winter morning, dressed only in hit
pants and shirt. There he forced thu
door of the German Catholic Church
and smashed the pipes of the organ will
hatchet, assigning as his reason whe1
arrested, that the Cd thing dis
turbed him by making too much noise. ,
On this occasion he was sent to Ray
mond street jail for short term.
MISSING WIFE AND CHILD.
On his release he and his wife and
child returned to East New York. and
took up their residence in rooms ad
joining those of the Hbner family
There they lived for some months, HUI
bert attending to his business as fur
niture mender. One night he reached
home about twelve o'clock and demand
ed that his wife, who had then retired,
should go with him to place he desiq
mated, in the direction of Jamaica
She entreated him not to insist on hi
request at SO untimely an hour, and or
50 cold and cheerless night. But
by main force he dragged hel
from her bed and compelled her te
dress herself, and with their child ac.
company him. For three months after
Hubert was not seen, and his wife and
child have never since been heard of
nor will he give satisfactory account o1
their whereabouts, or the cause that
led to their disappearance. On being
interrogatcd, he merely said that hit
wife "went off with another man.
Words from his own mouth, uttered
ulteI bic ue''th VI tne oAuesb O1 Tile 11D
ner children, 60 to confirm the sns
picion Of foul play.
AN INVOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE.
While the body was lying dead i,
the house, Hilbert was seated in rock
ing chair near the stove. During til,