The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1874-11-06
BLOODY skGJtRDER.
A Man and Wife Assaulted, ed
The Wife Instantly Killed
Two. len and a Wema, Il. Nura,r,rs,
(Fro,n the St. Pau. Dispatch, Nov. ~

lrU1a t4le ~. raul DlsIatcA, NOV. T.
We have to record to-day the par
ticulars Of one Of the most cold blood
ed|and apparently premeditated mur
|ders which has ever been committed il
this city,: The victim in this case, who
! with her husband resided on :::Tenth
street, near St. Peter, was a Mrs, Lick
formerly a Mrs. Hayes, whose first hus'
band was killed about three years age
while digging we'll. Last winter she
married Joseph Lick: who was a: wid
over having six children, whilo Mrs,
Hayes had five children: Mrs. Hayes
owned lot, on which herself and he1
husband have just erected anew story
and.a-h&lf house, in which they, with
the children Of both parties, resided.
To account in some manner for the
foul deed in which female figures SO
prominently, it may be necessary to
state that about year ago Mr.. and
Mrs. LICK rented, a portion Of their lot
for '$25 per annum to Raap and his wife,
and that shortly after that ill-feelina
sprang up between the families, which
has continued ever since, the aid Of
the police and City Justice having had
to be: invoked to restrain the parti es
from inflicting serious injuries on each
other. Lick and his wife are represent.
ed to have oeen peaceable, hardworking
fpeople, Lick being in the employment
Of Il. J. Taylor as teamster, while Raap
was employed as q plasterer' laborer,
and both him and his wife, the latter
particularly, being noted for extremely
|quarrelsome dispositions. Lauden-
schlaeger is a brother of Mrs. Lick, and
all the parties reside on Tenth street, a
short distance from St. Peter.
ed all day by curious individuals and
amateur detectives, who turned over
the Boards and other lumber in the
yard, anxious to discover the instru.
meat with which the blosdy deed was
committed, and. it required the services
oil three or four policemen to prevent
them from forcing themselves into the
house where the inquest was in pro.
gress. A pool of blood ON the outside
and near the sidewalk leading to the
house, in which the unfortunate de-
ceased was found lying, was surrounded
by large crowd all day, who seemed
to be attracted to the spot like parcel
|0f carrion crows.
Inside as you entered the house, in
the center Of the floor, lay the body of
the numbered woman, her head shat
tered and streams of blood diverging in
|every direction from her head, so that,
you con1d scarcely pass the body either
in going in or leaving the house without
stepping in it. The body had a cover
let Of some description thrown over it,
and with its surroundings was .sicken-
ing sight which would require strong
nerves to look at.
: In an inner room, the bedroom Of
the unfortunate pair. lay Mr.. Lick with
his head and wrist bandaged up. and
his face cut in several places, showing
unmistakable evidence of the savage
treatment he had received. He was
perfectly conscious, however, but
serious fears Of Inflammation Setting in
are entertained by the attending, ply
sicians. His nervous system has evil
dently received 4 terrible shock, and
he knows nothing whatever Of the
tragic fate of ] his wife,
but makes constant inquiries after her
condition. sometimes praying n moving
terms that she may be brought into the
same room to him, so that he may sat-
isfy himself as to her condition.
! This morning about ten o'clock the
County Attorney and Coroner were in
attendance and took the following
AsrE.xoRTEx DEPOSITION.
/ went away little, after seven o'clock in
the evening to visit Mr.. johnson on Robert
street: stayed there about two hours and a
half and left about half-past nine to come
home came to my house by way OF Tenth
street; my wife was leaning on my arm we
went into the kitchen which isr separated
from the main building; | started a little
and put on a linen cost belonging to one Of
a pan Of dough to bake bread next
morning.. after she got through
we were about leaving the kitchen when
my wife said she was afraid for she thought
she saw some one at the window looking in;
she took up her clothes on her arm and left
the kitchen walking on my left hand side;
she had pocket book with about one dollar
in it in her right hand; walked up to the
steps ofmy house and saw George Lauden-
schlaeger sitting on pile Of boards Mrs.
Rapp sat next to him and her husband,
Frank Rapp, sat on the other side of this
pile; this was on the west side Of the
house; my wife supposed it was one of
her sons named Theodore who is after some
girl, and called out ttTheodore -
As she said this, Laudenechlaeeer struck