St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-24
CHOPPED TO PIECES.
The Murder at Primrose the
Most Brutal in Badger
State History.
Christen's Body Literally Cut
Into Mineemeat in a
Cheese Tub.
Preparations by Kuhni Show
the Deed to Have Been
Deliberate.
The Villain on His Way to
Europe by the Steamer
Lord Cough.

MADISON, Wis, Dec. 2S.-John
Kuhni, who brutally murdered William
Christen in the town of Primrose Dec.
u, has been traced to Philadelphia, and
is now on his way to Liverpool on the
American line steamer Lord Cough.
The details of the terrible crime, learned
to-day, are more revolving than
lelegraphed last night, and it
is safe to say no more diabolical
deed was ever perpetrated in this state.
Primrose, where the crime occurred. is
Norwegian and Swiss settlement, the
manufacture of cheese and dairying be-
ing the chief occupations. 1t was in
cheese factory that the crime was COM
mitted, and the fact that the factory
is not in running order accounts
for the length of time in
finding it out, while had it not been for
the accidental discovery of the bag and
its CHASTITY contents it would not be
known yet. Ole Barton, the justice
who held the inquest over the head and
the only other parts found of the un-
fortunate Christen, was in the city.
to-day, and from him and the officers
who arrived from the scene tonight is
learned
THE TRUTH.
That the murder was cold-blooded and
deliberate is shown by the fact that the
murderer some days previous to execu-
ting the act obtained the only picture of
himself in existence from his brother on
slight pretext. Two days before the
murder he also bought a gallon of
whisky, and it is presumed he got
his victim dead drunk, when he
was at his mercy, his prey dying
in his bed in a drunken stupor.
The murderer took an ak and split his
head clear across. The deed accom-
plished, the next move was to get rid
of the body, and this the fiend at
tempted by dragging the corpse into a
tub and literally chopping it to pieces.
The head and entrails were disposed of
as related above, but what was done
with the rest of the body remained a
mystery until to-day, although vigor-
Gus search was made. The victims
clothes were burned and ashes thrown
over the floor and the ak, to hide the
clots OF blood. The murderer occupied
tie entire day after the murder per-
forming this task, as he was seen about
the factory all that day. Early the
next morning he went to his brother.
who helped him carry his baggage to
the depot at New Glarns, telling him
he was going to Monroe to meet Chris
fIpn n hn Dlnrtnra1 ny %I,o1 Al.
were
GOING TO CHICAGO
and possibly Switzerland. Kuhni car
ried two satchels and two shotguns, and
in changing cars at Monticello he sought
aid of one of the residents in carrying
one of the satchels, which was very
heavy. On removing his hands from
the bottom of the satcbel the stranger
found them covered with blood.
but strange enough, he thought
nothing unusual, afterward telling some
friends how he helped a man lift
satchel full of dead rabbits, which he
supposed to be contained therein, and
commenting on the strangeness of put
ting dead rabbits in satchel. There is
now no doubt but that the satchel con-
tanned the rest of the remains of
the murdered man, though why
the murderer should carry them
with him is a mystery in keep
ing with the shocking crime.
Officers from here tracked their man to
Monroe. where they ascertaned tonight
he had taken ocean passage. The Oh
tanning of. Christen's money was the
cause of the terrible act. Christen is
known to have had about $50 in cash
about his person and certificate of de-
qosit for s400 OH Monroe bank. Kuhni
will be arrested on landing at Liyepooi,
and an officer sent for him.