St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-02
AN Ohio BLUEBEARD,
Horrible Story Of an Unnat-
upal Husband and
Father.
Seven Wives Ire ated Like
Dogs, Six Being Done to
Death.
A Tale Of Barbarity That
Would Disgrace a Canni-
bal Chief.
Youthful Lovers Die to Avoid
Separation--Series Of Do
mestic Wrongs.

SYDNEY, Ohio, June 1.-George
Rhinehart, of Clay township, is a mod
ern Bluebeard in effect, though his
methods are slower. but scarcely less
brutal. Rhinehart is a German, about
So years of age, robust of frame, violent
of temper, and forbidding in appear
ance. He has lived for years half
isolated life on an out-of-the-wav farm
in Clay township. For years he has
been an object of suspicion, but only in
the last few days. and mainly then
through the awful exposure of a paper
of this place. has his atrocious character
been exposed and the people aroused.
The law will now be given chance.
If it fails to act Rhinehart is likely to
see a long night. He lives in a
tumble-down house. around which
he has erected high fence. Inside
this are drove of pigs, dozen dogs,
and filth beyond description. When
twentyseven years of age he married
eighteen-year-old Nanny McKinnon, of
Logan county. He made her slave at
once. She
Worked in the Fields
like a serf and stood unnamable abuses.
In four years she became the mother of
three children and then died. A month
later he married Christina Pulfer, aged
twenty-eight. She was treated as her
predecessor had been. and in two years
was in her grave, leaving also three puny
children. Christina Schlichtig next
came into the fatal house servant.
Soon she yielded to Rhinehart, then
married him. One year of life as Rhine
hart's wife brought her, an emaciated,
hopeless wreck, to the grave. Her sister,
who came to nurse her. became by force
victim to her brOther-in-law, then his
wife. She was more rugged than her
sister, and put i'll seven years of beat
ingS, half-starvation, and abuses not to
be mentioned; then died a week after
becoming the mother of her fifth child,
at the close of days work hoeing corn
for her taskmaster. Rhinehart remained
single almost year, then married a
widow named leland, woman of forty,
with three children, and at once
Started on His Old Plan.
She plowed corn, chopped wood, did
the household work, added four other
children to the family besides thoses she
brought with her, and died in less than
four years. The sixth wife was Eliza
Deln becnlel, 4 SplnSlef OIL 1Orty. The
same routine enSued, and i'll Just
twenty-three months she died, leav-
ing two wee babies. 1t was not long
until the seventh wife came into the
family, but she was different. She
wouldn't work; beatings. abuse, and
crueltieS had no effect. She became the
mother of one child and then fled.
Weary of wives and deserted by his
elder daughters, who fed to preserve
their honor, he took into the crowded
house last fall twelve-year-old daugh-
ter of his eldest. son. She is now a
mother. the eighth known victim of her
grandfather. The feeling in that sec
tion is something terrible, and positive
action will be taken in the next twenty
four hours. The people are dunn
founded at their own neglect. 1t is
whispered that two of the human DEVILS
own daughters are victims of his fiend-
iSh nature,