Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-22

A DEED OF DIABOLISM,
Il Nan Butcherea in Bed By Drunken
German.

II Nan Butcjterea in Bed By Drunken
German.
Kansas City Journal
The city of Cameron, on the Hannibal &
st. Joe road, about forty miles above Kansas
City, was the scene of most atrocious
murder, Friday morning, SO cowardly, hor-
rible and unnatural that one at first hesitates
to believe it. A brief dispatch in the
Journal yesterday morning from Cameron
announced that George Cramer, a German,
had killed Charles Lang in Cameron on
Friday, and that the murderer was still at
large but since then full statement of the
facts of the dastardly act has been Obtained
by Journal reporter. For week prior to
the murder Cramer had been hanging around
Cameron drinking freely, and on Tuesday
night last he slept with his victim in a room
over Chapman's saloon. A day or
two afterwards he remarked to friend
that all of his money-about 5000
was missing, and unless Charles Lang had
taken it he did not know what had become
of it. He also remarked to others that if he
knew Lang had taken his money he would
kill him. Between 10 and II o'cloak Friday
morning Cramer went to Chapman's saloon
in which there was no one but a boy 10 years
of age, and after lettering there few mo-
ments he went up stairs to room where
Charley Lang was asleep in bed, and where
he and Lang had slept the previous Tuesday
night. There was nothing in his action be-
fore going up stairs to excite attention.
Shortly after going up the boy heard
noise, and starting up stairs he met Cramer
coming down, holding bloody knife in his
hand. Rushing past the boy without say
ing anything, he ran past the
Rock Island depot and across the Hannibal
road, and was shortly afterward seen in the
country south of town. The boy went up
stairs as soon as Cramer passed him, and
was overwhelmed with horror to see Lang
lying on the floor with his throat cut in sew
in places and gasping in the agonies of
death. The alarm was at once given and
the room was soon filled with people dumb
with horror, gazing at the CHASTITY spectacle
on the floor. Poor Lang was lying in an i'm
mense pool of his own blood and family
breathing. Seven horrible wounds in his
throat, each sufficient to have caused DEATH
showed how 1nhumanly he had been butch
cred by the monster who had crept upon him
while asleep and sunk his knife time after
time into his throat. Lang died in few
moments after being discovered, and the
citizens awakening to the necessity of cap
turing the murderer, went in pursuit, but up
to this time Cramer has not been captured.
The murder excited Cameron as nothing in
her history had ever done before, and the
Vandtcator at once got out an extra giving
an account of the affair. Postal cards offer
ing reward and giving description of the
murderer have been sent all over the coun-
try, and Chief of Police Speers, of this city,
has received one of them, which reads as
follows:
Arrest George Cramer, German, 35 years
Old, five feet eight inches, dark complexion,
dark hair, small blue eyes sunken in sockets,
klotches or freckles on face, and two scars
on right cheek bone, fresh shaved, with
moustache and goatee or imperial; had on a
black coat, light pants, and black - hat.
will give $50 reward for his arrest and
delivery to me, besides the usual $500 reward
given by the Governor in murder cases.
He killed Charles Lang here to-day at IL
O'Clock, whilst sleeping, by cutting his throat.
Fl. @. CULVER, Marshal.
Cameron, Mo-. Aug. 16, 1878.