Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-18
CRIMINAL.
Wisconsin Uneartlls a Desperate
Eiend.
He Confesses TO Forty Murders.

He COnfesses 10 Forty Murders.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 17.-BOb Turner, of
PatoSi, Grant county, Wis, was arrested
for the murder of his brother Albert. The
inquest which has just been concluded re-
veals a blOod-thiTsty depravity rivalling the
Bender family. The murdered man was
killed with an axe, the head being nearly
severed from the body, rs lie was coming
out of q mineral hole in which he was at
work. He fell back speechleSS and never
moved more. The murderer then called TO
another brother, Newton, who was in an
adjoining shaft, 10 come up, and Newton
commenced to climb. When he reached
surface he perceived the murdered Albert
aud was about to run, when Bob seized
him, and showing him the blcOly axe,
threatened to kill him instantly unless he
swOre to assist in putting the body away
and to preserve silence. This Newton as
sented to, but on the first opportunity he
escaped to Patosi, where he gave the alarm,
and the murderer fled to Lancaster. He
was pursued, arrested, and lodged in prison,
where he soon attempted the life of his
keeper.
The second murder which has just come
to light, is that of Olney Neeiey, youth
of the town of EllenbOro. Bob Turner was
then cutting hoop poles for Mr.. Bell. On
Tuesday, Dec. %, the boy Neeley started
from Bells TO visit his mother, who resides
in New California, his road Law through the
timber belonging TO Baitey where Turner
was at work. That was the last seen of
young Neeley until the 9th of January.
The people residing in the neighbOrhood
having heard of TuEaer's murderous pro-
pensity, and knowing that young Neeley
had TO pass near where he was at work.
turned out on Friday last to hunt for his
remains. Eight men started from Bells
and searched the ground on each side of the
road. When they arrived upon the premi-
ses where Turner had been chopping, they
found the body which lay as it had fallen
six weeks before. The indications showed
that Turner had commenced to cut down a
Sappling, having struck two blows on the
left side and one on the right. The second
blow evidently was the one that killed the
boy. The position in which the body lay
and the course the blow from the AK had
taken all indicated it. The boys head was
nearly cut from the body, only hanging by
a small piece of skin on the back and front
of the neck, the AK having gone clear
through the neck. When found young
Neeley had a paper parcel under his arm,
Just as he was carrying it. The body was
taken care of, and jury empaneled to hold
an inquest, and the verdict was that OlEey |
Neeley, aged il 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 Bennett visited and |
asked him to confess if he had any hand in |
them. He finally confessed that he remem-
bered killing two men, one a stranger
whm he had encountered in deep Tavine
back of poor farm, and theTeupOn attack
ed and murdered him, hiding the body.
The other man he met on the road to Mus
cada, where he vas going 10 get work. He
saws that the latter made threatening geS-9
lures, and he feared he 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, smahing III the skull and killing him
instantly. He dragged the body into the
bushes and secreted it there. Now that he
has confessed, ha delights to talk Of the
many persons ne has killed, lie gioats over
the skill with which he has concealed their
bodies, and declares nobody can find them
but himself, and that if they were got to-
se:ber there would be nearly forty Of them.