The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-03-12

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m YANuY.
Norris Kaisse ~ fity ysan O. -
Switser By birth. Mn. Ellea Kaiser ~
twenty-five ysan Of -. boz. md raissd ID
Moarse county. She uassisd Kaisse vhsa
she W. only fifteen and hsd borne him
nix children.
The oldest child ~ John. . boy Of tsa
yean; Samuel, tie next. ~ nine yeass
old; Henry, seven yean; Fred, Eve yeas.
The tvo little onsa, Tommy and Ellen J.,
we're respectively three yean and tvo
months Of age.
TIE LOCALITY
where the Kaisen lived NJ shout half .
mile from The baak Of The Mississippi. o.
all sides were bottom farms. A mile or
two above vas Fish Landing. . small set-
Element containing store o. tvo, and half
. dozen houses belov the Kaiser farm vas
Joy Landing.
The theory l. that Kaiser in his trouble
killed his entire family, started The fre in
several places about The house, and then
cutting his throat laid down 70 die. The
facts seem to support this. The old
Switsers family was large, and The farm
vas small. II vas not his property but
Vas leased. He vas behiod With the rental,
and on the frst Of March ~ TO give up
the premises. He had devoted several days
to riding about the country looking for .
new farm, and foe weeks had ben inquir,ng
among his neighbon. The old me-. ssems
to have been held iu respect By those about
him, and during the past winter help has
been frequently extended to The family.
But all Kaiser could find which would
come within his means w. . small farm
much neglected. The only building ~ .
log house or hut, and even that had fallen
into decay. The lst Of March Va drawing
near. and after hunting day after day hs
sank into dependent mood, took The little
place and prepared to move his family in.
Az be Contemplated the change be grew
more and more dependent
Ooh, CHRIST"
he said on Monday to . neighbor, chow can
/ move into that log house. Ny poor vile
and children to be 10 reduced" The old
man had worked hard up to this time but
be seemed to be all broken up at The psos-
pect. A younger man would have been
Drawer. looking forward to the time when
his boys could hold the plough and share
the burden Of support, but when Kaiser
to grow melancholy there W.
no reaction. He vent about day after day
muttering to himself and the country folks
shook their heads and said 70 each other.
PooR KAISER.
Thursday night about dark the old man
visited the saloon 1t Fish Landing. He
was highly excited and talked and cried
almost eontinualIy. Three times be went
to the bar and called for whisky, each time
eulping down brimning glao Of the 6esy
liquid - IL il ~ . cool glass Of water o.
. summer day. The crowd in the saloon
knew the old man veil and tried to reason
with him. but he listened 70 nothing. If he
was not talking TO himself he W. staring
into vacancy, absorbed in moody thought.
my Coz" he would cry out again, my
poor wife and my little children, can't
move them into IN old log house, I'd rather
be dead. I wish ne were
ALL DEAD"
Finally the old man went 70 The bar for
the fourth time. He produced bottle and
it was filled. Then muttering and groan.
ing be went TO The door and staggered out
into the darkness.
That vs. the last seen Of old Norris
Ka,ser alive. From that time until he
ERE vas discovered was over Eve hours end
the building could not have been burning
more than three-quartes Of IN hour when
DR.. Wheeler and his companion reached the
place. Kaiser had between four and Eve
boun to perfect his plans and execute
them. He must have set up after The otheru
went to bed taking occas,ooal pulls 1t the
aask and working himself up to the frensy
which made his horrible task possible 70 &C.
complish. When the mother and babiel
had fallen into their 6st deep sleep, the
weapon descended and perhaps without 9
moan or . cry the couch Of reposs became
bier for the dead. After STRENGTHENING
their forms and possibly hiding the awful
spectacle beneath . coverlid, tie old mar
went to the foot of The stains and called tn
boys. Az they came down: one after an
other, half asleep, and uncoascious Of tb'
fate swaiting them, the weapon Vas pliet
once, twice, three, four times, and his son
lay
wELfERING m THER BLOOD
1t his feet. He must have taken up th'
bodies and laid then in . row. After that
it may be he spent some time in caresinl
the bodies, half sobered in the preses.ce o
death.
The hours we're Aeeting, and The TRACED,
Was not over.
Then commenced the preparations for th
Gre. These were brisf. 1t did not appea
from the roons thst Kaiser had disarrange
The interior Of The house, but il ~ evidea
on Tie ist arrival that he in some manne
had possession Of every portioa oftbs hoos'
Probably be walked about the room apply
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