The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-10-21
DARK FOR ARENSD0RF
Was Henry Peters Murdered ?
Additional Exposures and
Disclosures
Tales or People Who Heard Strange
Noises md Brawling mt
the Brewery.
Sioux City Qows) special

Public feeling is crystallizing against
John Arensdorf, who is accused of having
murdered the Rev. George G. Haddock.
The exposures respecting the mysterious
disappearance of Henry Peters, the brew
cry driver who participated in the conspira-
cy, and the sensational suspicion of the
neighbors that he was killed to insure his
silence, made a profound impression to-
day. These facts had never been pub
lished, and they set the community to
thinking. Now the almost universal YER
dict outside Of the saloon element is that
Arensdorf will have great difficulty in Sc
curing an aoquittal unless he turns up the
missing man. OF the two men who were
seen running across the bridge toward
the brewery after DIR. Haddock
fell Peters was certainly one. WAS
Arensdorf the other?" everybody is now
asking, and inasmuch as Peters absence
can only be explained by the brewery peo-
pie, and Is not, the answers can be sur
missed.
Arensdorf says of the disappearance of
Peters: Peters had been talking about
leaving for some time. When the injuno-
ton business commenced he made up his
mind he would be out of a job here and
would quit and get a job somewhere else.
l had no fuss with him. One Saturday,
about Aug. 20. think, spoke to him
about the horses shoulders being sore.
told him that the team had never had sore
shoulders before, and that man who
claimed to know as much as he did about
horses should attend TO them. He did not
say anything, but went to the Office and said
he wanted his money. He got it and went
away.
Mrs. Sarah Wallace, who lives opposite
the brewery, says: ut was the evening of
Aug. %. / know that was the date be-
cause i wrote it down next morning. 1t was
a hot night, and got up and sat by the
open window of the front room up stairs.
A little after the clock struck 10 l heard
two men talking loud in the brewery. They
seemed to be quarreling and made noise
like lot of dogs. From the noise they
seemed to come together, and then one of
them said 'Oh! twice SO loud one might
have heard him as far off as Pearl street.
Then | heard groans that sounded fainter
and fainter. After all was quiet three men
came out of the east door and walked tow
ard the street. They were talking, und
one of them stepped on little dog and the
dog ran away yelping. The men walked
back into the brewery and called the dog
in."
Mrs. Wallace says that the next morning
she spoke to Mrs. Van Dugan about the
noises in the brewery, and that Mrs. Van
Dugan, who then lived next door, said that
she and her husband had heard them.
Joseph Taylor, n next-door neighbor of
Mrs. Wallace, says: Il can't tell the date.
1t was quite while after the Haddock
murder. / was awakened by noise. l at
first thought it was chariyari party.
went out, and the noise had quieted.
heard two groans. They seemed to come
from the brewery. 1 listened while, and,
not hearing any more, went in and went
to bed. The next day Mrs. Wallace told
me what she had heard"
Mr.. Taylor said that the evening before
he heard the groans he saw Henry standing
on the beer wagon at the east door. He
seemed to be quarreling with some one in
side, all of them talking loud. That was
the last time he saw Henry. At a late hour
tonight it was reported that Davenport was
Peters home, and that he could be found
Albert Kaschnski, alias Bismarck,
makes the positive statement that he was
hired. and the money paid him, ito DO w
Haddock." He went down onto Water
street for that purpose, intending &c
catch Haddock as he came from the livery
stable. lie further says that ne STOOD De-
hind pile of posts, in waiting for Had
dock, when the fatal shot was fired; that he
saw the man who fired the shot, and knows
him personally. He has told the officers
who committed the murder. 1t is almost
certain that the testimony of this man will
involve man other than John Arensdori
as the murderer, but this remains to be
seen. The statement is made that trav-
cling man. n stranger in Sioux CITY, was
near the Columbia House Mt the time the
shooting took place, and saw the shot fired
He did not know the man who fired the
shot, but has pointed out John Arensdori
to the States Attorney as the man.