The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-22
KNITTED TO Death.
This was the Cause Ct the Decease
Of Charles Lang. al Cam eron,
Missouri.
z Blade in the Hands Of "Dutch
George" Being the Bloody
Instrument Of Su.chery.
Escape Of the Assassin and the Fruit
less Chase After HIM.
A DAS.ARBLY DEED.

\ DAsEARDLY DEED.
At alout eleven O'Clock, Friday, Gays an
extra published by the Cameron Mo-
I'sa5tontgr, cur people were startled with
th new Of one of the most horrible mur-
ders ever committed, and certainly Cam
eron was never before the scene Of a crime
half SO dastard!y. The particulars Of the
case, so far as We have been able 10 learn,
are as follows:
For week past George Cramer has been
around Cameron, frequently imbibing too
much beer, and on tuesday night last he
slept in the room over Mart. Chapman's sa
loon with Charles Lang. 4 day or two af
terward he told Fred. Reed, with whom he
has been acquainted several years, that he
had lost all his money, something over two
hundred dollars. and that he did not know
who took it unless it was Charlie Lang.
lie also told other persons that if he wss
certain that Charlie Lang had taken his
money he rogtd l. z him. 1t was MT gener-
ally known, however, among our people
that any money had been lost, and when
il was announced this morning that Charles
Lang had been murdered it surprised and
BoRRIFIED TIE ENTIRE POPULATION.
Ii seems that the murderer went 10 the
above mentioned saloon and found nobody
there but John Chapman, ten years Of sge,
and after waiting 4 few minutes went up
| stairs. The boy heard noise overhead in
few minutes after the man went up. lie
started up stairs and met the man coming
down, with a knife in his hand. After
leaving the saloon he ran past the Rock
Island depot and across the Hannibal road,
and was seen by J. +. Conklin from the
depot as lie disappeared from view, south
OF town.
The 10Y went up stairs and found Lang
lying on the floor with his throat cut IN
several places, and Immediately made
known wha, he had seen. A number of
citizens visited the scene shortly after and
witnessed one Of the most horrible sights
Imaginable. On the floor, in pool OF
blood, lay the unfortunate man, breathing
! his last with
SEVEN DISTISCT KNIFE WOUNDS
| in his throat, almost any one Of which was
sufficient 10 have killed him; he died with
| in few moments. From spots OF blood in
the bed, it was apparent that the first at
tack had been made while Lang was lying
in the bed. As soon as possible after TIE
| affair had been made known, a number OF
our citizens procured horses and started in
pursuit Of the murderer. A number of per
| sons from Osborn also started during the al
ternoon, but up TO this time nothing has
been heard of him.
JOHN CHAPMAT,
OF lawful age, being duly sworn before tie
! coroner's jury, stated that about ii O'Clock
A. NJ, a man known 10 me as George -,
| G.rman, came TO my fathers So
| loon, in Cameron, in Sholl township,
in this county, and asked me where
| Charley Lang was; alter standing in the
door little while he went up staiss; |
told the man not to 60 up stairs, but he
went on; after he went up stairs | heard
| Charley struggling, or straightforward
ing gurgling sound; | started up stairs,
and met the man, George ---, coming
down stairs; | was behind the bar; his
/ hands were bloody, and he had small
knife in his hands, with the blade open; he
was on the run and went south, between the
depot and the fence Of the Knapper prop
erty This man, George -, is the
same man that claimed to have been rob
bed few nights ago, while sleeping with
| Charley Lang. Charley told me If the man,
| George -, came and asked about
him while he was up stairs, to tell him
| that he Charley was down town. After
the man, George ---, left the saloon,
| went up stairs and found Charley Lang
| lying on the floor bleeding; he was breath
| ing yet, but could not speak; | ran down
and told the cigar man, (Mr. Brant),
Mr.. Lee and Mr.. i. l.. Hatch
VERDICT OF THE JURY.
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and sworn on the 10th day OF August, lS7 s,
at the township of Shoai, in the county
of Clinton, Zachary P.ovolt, Justice Of
the Peace in and for said township OF
Shcal, acting as ccrornor, TO diligently in
| quire, and true presentment make, how and
| by whom Charles Lang, whose body WIS
found at VIM. NJ. Chapman's saloon, in
Cameron, Shoal township, in Clin;on coun-
" Mo, on the 10th, day OF August, 1873,
came 10 dis death. Having viewed the
body and heard the evidence, do find that
| the deceased came to his death by violence
from wounds made in the neck by knife
in the hands of one George -, known as
Dutch George" and that deceased was
killed at the same place where the body
was found; that said body had upon it sew
en- wounds made with a knife, as above de-
scribed, and which the jury do find caused
the immediate death of Charles Lang,
whose body was found as aforesaid, and
We do further find that said George -,
described by witnesses, generally known
as dutch George" was the perpetrator OF
the felony.
MR.. LANG.
Mr.. Charlie Lang has been connected
with the saloon business in Cameron for
several years, and has never borne an tn
viable reputation among our citizens, He
was a native OF Germany, and, We believe
| a widower. He has two sons living, one in
the East and the other in Wisconsin. lie
had only little more than five dollars on
his person when found. We understand
the remains are 10 be buried this evening.
THE MURDERER, GEORGE CRAMER,
is also German, and for several years
worked on the H. 4 ST. Joseph railroad, as
section hand, but during the past few
months has been clerking in saloon at
Osborn. 1t is said that heretofore he has
borne the character of peaceable man.
REWARD AND DESCRIPTION.
Postal cards containing the following
have been sent out:
A German, thirty years old, five feet
eight inches high, dark complexion, dark
hair, small blue eyes, sunken in sockets :;
blotches or freckles on face, and two scars on
right cheek bone, fresh shaved, with mus
tache, and goatee orimperial, had on black
coat, light pants and black stiff hat.
will give $50 for his arrest and deliv-
cry to me, besides the usual $500 reward
given by the Governor in murder cases.
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