Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-05-20
PACIFIC T.
[srxcIAL TO THE EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL.
CALIFORNIA.
A Horrible Tragedy.
AN OLD GERMAN BRAINS MS CHILDREN
AND KILLS HIMSELF.
HEAVY RAIN AT THE BAY.
Chief Of Police kirk patrick Tx
OnerntcJ.

San Francisco, May 10.
The Bulletin" this afternoon will pub
lish details of a horrible tragedy near An
tioch. Contra Costa county. Some six
mouths age a German named l.. Langbhm,
accompanied by his wife and two children,
a boy and girl, aged respectively 6 and 4
years, took up his quarters on a vegetable
ranch owned by his nephew, near Marsh
Landing, q place about five miles from
Antioch. Langbhm and his family were
fresh from Faderland. They were quiet
and industrious people, them most affection
ate relation existing between husband and
wife and between parents and children. At
4:30 O'clock OIL Friday morning. Langbhm
got up and prepared breakfast for his
nephew. and after the latter left for An
tioch, the children arose. At about s
o'clock Langbhm was seen by Max Klein,
a neighbor, to take the two children to the
adjacent tules. loon after he was observed
coming out Of the tules without the chill
dren and walking rapidly towards his
house. immediately after he reached il,
Mrs. Langbhm rushed out in an excited
state, throwing up her hands in despair
and talking excitedly in German. This
was followed quickly by the discharge of q
gun. Neighbors rushed to the scene. Mr..
Fleckan, . next-door neighbor to Lang
bhm, rushed into the house first, and en-
tering it beheld a horrible sight. Lang
bhm was leaning against the wall almost
doubled up and dead. with a double-bar-
relied shotgun grasped firmly in his hands,
the muzzle in his mouth aud toe against
the trigger. The charge entered the mans
head, and spattered his brains all over the
room. Search was then begun for the
children, who were missing. An hour
Inknr xIo xwro <.~.~ f.-1 - n--x-z.~
gardner, lying dead, side by side, in the
tules, not far from where Langbhm had
been seen to emerge. The little girls
skull had been smashed with q heavy, blunt
instrument, and her throat cut from ear to
ear. severing the jugular vein, and a piece
of flesh had also been cut out Of one Of her
hands. The boys body suffered no marks
Of violence, except that the head was nearly
severed from the trunk Near the bodies
were found the apron worn by Langbhm
at the time he slaughtered his children, and
a heavy budgeon, with which he beat in
the skull of bis daughter. Both articles
we're covered with blood. The Threats of
the little ones are supposed to have been
cut with a scythe-blade, or some similar in
strument, as in each case a frightful
wound had peer inflicted with one blow,
but no such weapon, or any other instru-
ment could be found. At the Coroner's
inquest. Mrs. Langbhm testified that her
husband had always been affectionate and
kind to herself and children; that he had
no financial troubles and was temperate
in his habits. There was nothing unusual
in his conduct or appearance when he
to work in the morning. A younger
brother Of her husband. she said, is now
confined in an insane asylum in Germany. |
n A.. .f1or,>, o,-~..Af11 nil. tfa IL
ceased, testified that he was a sober, indus
trious and peaceable man.
Itshas been raining heavily throughout
the day, but the wind has changed to the
west, and the storm apparently is over.
In the Twenty-Third District Court this
morning, in the suit brought againt Chief
Of Police kirkpatrick, by Oscar Alderman,
charging him with connivance at the es-
Of j. G. Duncan, and a neglect Of
duty, Judge Thornton rendered a decis-
ion in favor of defendant.
DisSracefuI Conlnct or Hoodlums
at San Jose.
SAN JOSE, May 10.
The picnic here yesterday by the Sars-
field Guards was the most disgraceful ex-
ever seen in this city since the
advent Of the same company in San Jose
on a similar occasion years ago. The
on the part of the Captain to pay
the train made a delay of two hours at
the depot, and gave time for the most dis
rieting by hoodlums, who were
in part aided by the soldiers, a majority OF
whom, including Captain Dolan, were
and very abusive to the local Off
On the way home a man named
Henry fell or was thrown between
the cars near AlyisO and was crushed to
leath by the wheels OF the train.
Chinese Murder nj Truckee.
TRUcKEE, CAL, May 10.
A Chinaman, All Cow, was brutality muir
dered last night on the bridge across the
Truckee river, leading to Chinatown. His
body was thrown into the river. All Look
and two other Cinnamon are in custody,
with the murder.