Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-10-16

A MYSTERY CLRARED.-Our read
ers viii remember that about seven
teen months since We published an
account OF the body Of murdered
man being found Ia Skunk river, near
kellogg, Jasper county. No clue
could be obtained to the murderer,
and the body was committed to q
strangers grave, and az time passed
on the incident was almost forgotten.
Some time since two parties John
bunker and Hans Freeze were arrest
ed at Davenport for DEMONSTRATING and
by the latter turning States evidence,
the former was convicted AZ principal
and the informer as accomplish. They
were confined In separate cells at Dav-
export, and Bunker sent several notes
written in German to Freese trying to
induce him to change his testimony,
TALL Of which were first read by the
Sheriff.. Finally he sent one saying
that IL Freese did not swear as he
(Dunker) wished him 10, lie would
blow on him aud "tell all about MUIR
der committed winter before last. I"
This note the Sheriff read. and after
wards gave to Freese. who is simple
minded youth. When he read it, the
terror with which it inspired him
was depicted on his face, and by o
little questioning the following con-
fession was drawn from him. A ped
dler named Schuman, was In March,
1872, travelling westward from Dav-
export with q family named Loren
zen, consisting OF the father, Henry
Lorenzen, his wife and son Henry 10
years old; and Hans Freese. Schu-
man had good mule team and the
others had good team Of their own.
Son the afternoon Of the third day af-
ter leaving Iowa City, young Loren
zen struck Schuman on the head with
a club and then got gun from the
murdered mans wagon and shot him
in the head. Old LorenzeB then came
up and they put the body in the wag-
OH and then hauled IL several miles,
until they came to Skunk river, when
they cut hole In the ice and showed
the body under. They robbed the
body Of 5000 to $500, and drove the
team to Des Moines where they sold it.
The Davenport Chief Of Police took
Freese, went to Newton, got team
and travelled eastward until they came
to q point four miles east OF Kellogg,
in Rock creek Tp., Jasper county,
near the Poweshiek county line.
When old Lorenzen was arrested, sew.
eral articles that formerly belonged to
Schuman were found In his possession.
Chef Marteus says that Freese's con-
fession has been sustained In evey
particular by the discoveries Of the
trip. Freese has hard time before
him, however. He says that Henry
Lorenzen Jr., murdered Schuman.
There is bunker the horse thief, who
rays Freese confessed to him In his
saloon mt Des Moines, that he (Freese)
murdered Schuman, and here Ii old,
Lorenzen and wife, who, Freese says,
had nothing to do with the murder
besides witnessing it, are ready to
swear that Freese, and not their son
Henry, killed Schuman. The trial OF
the person or persons against whom
the Grand Jury Of Jasper county may
find n true bill, will not probably take
place this term. But the accused will
be held. Meanwhile the net Of testi-
mony will be woven closer, and by
the next term Of the District Court OF
Jasper county, the mass Of testimony
will be impregnable. The Lorenzens
will remain in Jail here or be confined
at Newton, ~ the best Judgment OF
the Sheriff Of Jasper county may die
tate. -kekiOgg Ne,Us.