Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-01-18
BOB TURNER.
A Monster Of Iniqulty-The Murderer
OF Forty Persons by his Own
Confession.

MILwAUKEr, January i7.-Bob Tur
ner, of POtOsi, Grant county, WiscOn
sin, was arrested for the murder Of hi
brother Albert. The inquest which hs'
/ lust been concluded reveals a blood
thirsty depravity rlvsling the Bendel
family. The murdered man was
KILLED WITH ANAX,
/ the head being nearly severed from the
/ body, while he was coming out of 9
mineral hole, in which be was at work.
He fell back speechless, and never moved
again. The murderer then called to
another brother (NewtOn) J, who was in
an adjoining shaft, TO come up, and New
ton commenced to climb mp. When he
reached the surface he perceived the
body Of murdered Albert, and was
about to run, when Bob seized him, and,
showing him the bloody ak, threatened
to kill him instantly unless he swore to
assist him in putting the body away and
to preserve silence. This Newton as
sented to; but on the first opportunity
he escaped 10 Potosi, where he gave the
alarm, and the murderer fed to Lam
caster. He was pursued, arrested and
lodged in prison, where he soon after
ward attempted the life Of his keeper.
THE SECOND MURDER,
which has just come to light, is that OF
Oiney Neeley, a youth OF the town of
Ellenboro'. Bob Turner was then cut
ting hoop-poles for Mr.. Bell. On Tues
day, December 23d, the boy Neeley
started from Bells to visit his mother,
who resides in New California. His
road Jay through timber belonging TO
Bailey, where Turner was at work.
That was the last seen Of young Neeley
until the ninth OF January. The people
residing in the neighborhood having
heard Of Turner's murGerous propensity,
and knowing that young Neeley had to
pass near where he was at work, turned
out on Friday last to hunt for his re-
mains. Eight men started from Bell's
and searched the ground each side OF
the road, and when they arrived upon the
premises where Turner had been chop
ping they found the body, which lay as
II had fallen six weeks before. The in
dicatiOns showed that Turner had COM
menced to cut down a sappIing, having
struck two blows on the left side and
one Cn the right. The second blow evil
gently was the one that
BILLED THE BOY,
the position in which the body Law, the
course the blow from the ak had ta-
ken, all indicated it. The boys head
was nearly cut from his body, only
hanging by a small piece Of skin on the
back and front of his neck, the ak hav-
ing gone clear through his neck. When
found young Neely had a paper parcel
under his arm, just as he was carrying
it. The body was taken care of, and a
jury impanneled to hold an inquest, and
the verdict was that "Olnev Neelev,
aged fourteen years, came to his death
from the blow of an AK in the hands of
Robert Turner"
SEVERAL OTHER MYSTERIOUS MURDERS
having taken place in localities in which
Turner had been seen, Marshal Ben
nett visited the prisoner, and asked him
to confess if he had any hand in them.
He finally confessed that he remembered
killing two men. A stranger, whom he
had encountered in a deep ravine back
Of the poor farm. and thereupon attack
ed and murdered him, hiding the body;
and the other man he met on the road
TO Muscada, where he was going to get
work. He saws that the latter made
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was going TO take his life; so he closed
with him, and, with a four-pound
weight, which he carried in his pocket,
struck him two blows over the eyes,
SMASHING IN his SKULL,
and killing him instantly. He dragged
he body into the bushes and secreted it
here. Since he has confessed, he de-
lights 10 talk of the many persons he has
killed. He glOats over the skill with
which he has concealed their bodies, and
declares nobody can find them but him
'elt, and that If they were got together
here would be nearly forty of them.