The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-03-21
kENTUCRY VENG EANCE!
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One day last week, a man by the
name of Peter Klein, a brickmason,
and citizen of Cincinnati, crossed
over into Kentucky, and calling at
the farm house of Mr.. Treusdell,
near Newport, and finding the hus-
band and no male protectors at
home, brutally outraged the person
of Mrs. Treusdell. nearly murdered
her, and robbed the house-taking,
among other things, her gold watch.
The Treusdells arc of the very best
of families, and the outrage created
frenzied excitement. Detectives
and officers stou9cJi y---11eFY in
every direction, and finally arrested
the said X .ein quietly engaged at
his business IN Cincinnati, precisely
as if nothing had happened. The
lady's watch and other stolen arti-
Giles were found in his possession.
When the man was confronted
with ChiefCottingham in the Ninth
street Station-house, the latter told
him that he was the man who COM
mitted the outrage on Mrs. Carrie
Treusdell, in the Highlands, last
week, and, if he was, he had better
confess, and save the risk of being
taken out to the Highlands, from
whence he would never return alive.
He replied that he was the man,
they need not take him out.
MS CONFESSION.
my name is Peter Klein, am unmar-
ried, and fifty-two years of age, and re-
side in Cincinnati with my brother
in law, Adam Painter, who is a brick
mason; that is also my business. On last
Friday week. about six o'clock in the
morning, l left Cincinnati and crossed
over the Newport railroad idge to New
port. From there went to the Highlands.
stopped at lady's house, but don
know what asked her. / left, and was
RUut u Few minutes mutIl L hho
asked her where her husband was. She
said he was in the field working, and
would be at the house in little while
told her that was not so 4; that | had met
him going to town. then asked her for
drink of water, and when she attempt
ed to get it for me l knocked her down
with my Est. | first hit her on the side
of the head, and then struck her in the
stomach with my fist. | did not kick her.
| then dragged her in q room and had in
tercourse with her. She fought me as
hard az she could told her she was the
strongest little woman l ever saw. | also
told her that if she would give me SO
would go away and leave things just as
they were. She said she did not have any
money. This was just before l succeeded
in outraging her. | then tied her hands
/ to bench, her head being underneath it
l also tied her feet to a door-knob. did
the tying with the strips of q sheet | had
taken off the bed and torn up. | then
ransasked the house, pulling bureau
drawers out and throwing their content;
on the floor. The only things | took from
the house were a gold watch and chain, a
silver watch, Mexican dollar and small
amount of change After this | wen
back where the woman was laying tied
and told her goodbye and to get loose if
she could This happened early in the
morning, l then went straight back to
Cincinnati the way | came, and have been
here since. ] have never read any &c
count of il in the papers. l shaved my
mustache and side whiskers off the day
did it. don't knew what made me do it
l must have been drunk. 1 drank pint
of whisky that day
The leaders of the mob took him
and a number of other parties, into
the room of the sick and outraged
lady, and she promptly identified
Klein as the guilty wretch. When
the rope was fastened around his
neck, aud thrown across the limb
of a tree, he was asked if he had
anything to say. He replied by
denying his guilt.
The mob, numbering from l SOC
to 5000, without any effort at dis
guise, proceeded with the execu-
ton, and in few minutes after bis
Identification and confession his
soul was launched into eternity.