The daily gazette., 1876-06-16
SECOND EDITION.
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
A Young Lady Murdered In Hart
ford County Md,

SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER.
BKLAIR; HARTFORD COUNTY, Md,
June ia most horrible double ira
gedy was enacted near Clermont Mills
in the fourth district, upper part of
Hartford county, this morning, by
Christian Koltz, a youth from the
House of Refuge. farm hand, who
brutally murdered Miss Almira Street,
youngest daughter ofMr. Roger Street
his employer, residing near the mills,
and afterwards hanged himself in the
presence Of neighbors who had been
summoned and arrested him, .
Miss Street was seventeen years of
age. Her body was found at the loot
Of tho cellar stairs of the house about
u o'clock A, M, with the head partly
severed from the body, and an axe,
with which the deed is supposed to
have been committed, lying near by
covered with blood,
Mr.. Street rose early and went out
to look tor lost lamb, leaving his
daughter in the house getting break
fast and Klotz at home attending to
his work. About six o'clock KlotL
came into his house with an axe, and
going into the cellar, whittier Miss
Street, had gone to get some fish for
breakfast, knocked her down with the
head of the axe, and then with the
edge, by repeated blows, nearly Sc
vered the head from her body. Klotz
then went out. Shortly afterwards
Mrs. Sire EFT and other ladies of the
family came down stairs, and no,
seeing the daughter went into the
cellar, where they saw her lying or
the floor covered with blood.
Klotz was colled. informed of the
murder and sent to meet Mr.. STREET.
He went, and meeting the father told
him his daughter had been murdered
Mr.. Street, sent hin TO George Deaver'
a neighbor, to tell him. Klotz deliver
ed the massage, and upon, his way
home stopped Glem's store. and also
told persons there that Miss Street,, had
been murdered. Upon reaching home
he was ordered to 90 for d. T. B. Hay
ward. While he was gone a crowd
gathered. On his return again he was
taken into custody, and upon being
charged with the crime he at once
confessed he did it,. A rope was pro,
cured, and Klotz was taken to tht
woods, about one hundred yards from
the house. The rope was placed about
his neck, the end of the rope thrown
over the limb of a tree and he was pull
led up from the ground. Some persons
in the crowd objected to hanging him
and he was cut down before he was
strangled. Klotz, seeing that death
was inevitable, asked for gun that
he might shoot himself. 1t was then
suggested to hiru that he might just as
well hang himself. He agreed 20 dc
30. He climbed the tree dnaided ,and
placed the rope around his neck. He
then asked If it was properly adjusted
Upon being informed that il was he
coolly tied the end Of the rope around
tho limb on which he sat, and saying
good bye, Yet himself drop. .rf'7
The limb was about ten feet from tn,
ground, and as he hung his feet were
about two feet from the ground. The
murder occurred about six o'clock il
the morning. and the hanging about
half past two. The body was allowed
to hang several hours. when it wa
cut down. A coroner's inquest wa
held on the bodies of both Mis-
Street, and her murderer, and YER
diets were rendered in accordance will
the facts