The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-11-13
A Horror Condensed.

Ahe UU0e-Nmor,s0 gives long &c.
count Of the murder Of u farmer and
his wife. named Goetz, in Columbia
bottom. III. last Sunday night, oy man
named Strahl. Strahl was subsequently,
arrested in st. Louis while endeavor-
ing To sell the wagon belonging TO his
victims. The following is theory Of
the tragedy formed from surrounding
appearances:
The most perplexing feature Of the
whole affair is the failure TO find anv
trace of Goe,z or his body. There il
evidence in the bedroom Of the victim
70 the murderous AK. The best &C
quainted with the details Of the case
,heorize tina: Strahl, tempted with the
belief that there was money in the
house. took his bearings, and on las,
Sunday night. after midnight. eau
tionsly entered the farm yard. In an
clubhouse he found the ax with which
the terrible work was done. The mas
tiff. detecting him, sprang at him. and
fell To the ground, killed with single
blow Of the AK. The murderer then
entered the loosely secured house.
where he was met by the stalwart
Young farmer. There was a struggle
in the dim light, which was closed
with blow Of the ax. The wife must
have been witness to the deed.
dead people tell no tales" thinks the
murderer as he turns upon her. The
% mussed condition Of the bed clothes
gives rise to horrible suspicion. but
there is at present no testimony that
would bear out that idea. The strug-
gle Is brief, and the woman falls to the
floor with her skull crushed. The
demon standing ever her PROSTATE
form strikes her again and cleayes the
skull. lie drags her GU, of the house
and casts her into the cellar. He re-
turns for the husbands Corpse. A
thought strikes him. and his cunning
eyes CLEAN approval. lie carries the
body out Of doors. The wagon stands
in the yard. He bitches the patient,
beasts Of burden to it. and then he
places the body in it. He returns TO
the house and rummages drawers and
cupboards for valuables. The glitter
ing breastpin on the Sunday dress of
the poor woman strikes his eye. He
wrenches the bauble from the garment.
He takes down the rifle Of the young
farmer from its nail on the wall, and
with il the powder horn and bullet
pouch. He NAV need them. lie car
ries the trunk Of his victim out to the
wagon, and puts it in. He makes
several trips to the house, and piles the
household effects into the wagon and
on the still warm but lifeless body.
The heifer is hitched to the wagon,
and the murderer, with his booty and
one Of his victims. drives out Of the
farm-yard. He passes along under
the shadow Of the trees, past silent
farm houses, curses the deep tones Of
some watchful dog. until he reaches a
morass. He stops. takes out
the body Of his victim. and carrying it
ID from the road, throws it into an
and out of.the-way spot.
where weeks may pass before it is
found. and then he goes on his guilty
way chuckling in the ignorance Of his
.lOuded brain at the clever manner in
which he has thrown the suspicion Of
he awful crime upon the poor hus.
'and whose bloody corpse he had just
hidden. He stops to array himself in
he clothes Of his victim, and then
lrives on. When he reaches East
Iarondelet and realizes few dollars
y the sale Of the heifer. he gives his
ppetite for liquor full sway. and
|rcwns his senses in the depth Of his
rotations. He will sell the team and
Gagon. and then away to the confines
4 civilization. where he can continue
course Of crime with beings as low
5 himself. He all bat has the coveted
linds, when that fate which ever fol-
,ws criminals overtakes him; he is
ra>pea by the strong arm Of the law
nj taken hack to the scene of his
nilt. and today he covers in q strong
ri-on cell with the gallows looming
rfore him. while the blood of his VIC
ms cries aloud for vengeance.