Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-28
MRS. CHRISTIAN NUERNBERGER
MURDERED By HER JEAL-
Gus HUSBAND.
The Murderer Ends His Dark Days
Work With Suicide,
After wading Around in HIS Young Victims
Blood for Full Halt Hour.


days said George Nuernberger to his
twin girls, Amelia and Melissa, and
Thursday afternoons deepening shad-
ows crept around his stalwart form
swinging in the wood and lowered over
the body of his fair young wife lying
on her blood bathed face, in the little
dismal chamber of her country home,
dead-both dead.
George Nuernberger, a farmer, living
eight miles east of Lancaster, across
Platte river, in the town of Ellenboro,
murdered his wife and committed sui
eide Thursday, August 81. Nuremberg
er was German sc years of age. He
was married to Miss Chrisuiana Nc
Knight five years ago last February and
she was thirty years his junior. she be-
ing 26 years old at the time of her
death. Nuernberger had been married
once before and was the father of nine
children-sx by his first wife and three
by Christana Each wife had borne
him twins.
Nuernberger's second marriage appears
to have been an unhappy one, as a con-
tinual conflict ragged between the two.
From all evidence at hand, 1t appears
that he was entirely accountable for this
state of affairs, as he imposed an I'M
reasonable amount of drudgery upon
his wife and accused her of being I'M
true to her marriage ties in connection
with his son Edward, a youth of 10
years, by his first wife, and, as for that
matter, of every other man happening
about the place 1t is claimed by his
neighbors that there were no grounds
for these suspicious; that his wife was
sweet, pretty girl and as true as steel.
Monday of last week affairs came to
crisis. Christiana took her children
Lulu, aged ) years, and the twins Bar
bara and Prudence, aged years-from
the house, going to her brother, Mr.
James Meningitis. This left Nuern-
berger, Edward. the twins Amelia and
Melissa, aged IS. at home. Part of his
first wife's children are married and do
not reside with him, they being: Mrs.
Emma McClurg, Mrs. Mary Cannon
and Mrs. Katie Wilkinson
Nuernberger went away Tuesday or
Wednesday. When he returned he told
his children that his troubles would soon
be over; that he had been to Washburn
and made his will, and that Amelia and
Melissa were TO have his property. He
purchased a revolver while there, as APP
pears from later events. His property
consists of three hundred acres of land,
well stocked, on which there is mort
gage of four hundred dollars.
The house has two rooms on the
ground tloor-a front room, used as a
kitchen and dining room, and smaller
back room as a bed room.
Thursday forenoon at 10 o'clock
Amelia and Melissa were in the kitchen
putting plumbs into glass jars, when
Christlana came in alone from Nc
Knights. She spoke to the children
pleasantly and passed through the
kitchen into the bedroom where she
gathered up some clothing and was en-
gagged in tying in a bundle on the bed
when Nuernbcrger came in and ordered
the twins to 60 out and turn some hay
on the southwest sidehill. which they
did, the said hay beng about 800 yards
from the house and barn but in plain
sight. In short time they heard re-
volver shots. Almost half an hour
elapsed, when they saw their father run
out of the house to the barn, where he
turned bay horse loose, took It's tie
strap, ran back past the house. iumpeda
fence, ran across a narrow pasture,
scaled another fence and disappeared in
the woods.
The children knew there was tronble,
but dare not disobey orders, so they
worked steadily on until dinner time
On entering the house terrible
spectacle presented itself to their
fearful eyes. In the bedroom lay their
step-mother on the bare floor on her
face; blood was oozing from many
wounds and had run along the floor and
gathered against the mop-board an inch
deep. Nuernberger had attacked her
with revolver and badly nicked
Ratchet. Over her left ear two balls had
entered. one ball under left eye, one
ball in left breast-bone, and one ball
had plowed the ileshy part of her left
hand below the thumb. The Ratchet had