Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-05
MURDEROUS REVENGE.
Farm Hand at North Bend Kills HiS
Employers Daugh-

Galesville, Wis, Oct. 2S.-[Speclal.l-
Filled with desire to revenge hlnlseii
on his employer for some slight gfles
ance, George T. Palmer, farmnahu,
enticed the 3-year-old daughter OF oscar
Marshall. a farmer at North Bend, mo
the barn last night and killed her WIN az
AK. Palmer is Is years old ana ntu
been adopted by Marshall from the stare
school for dependent children. North
Bend is q hamlet with about seyehts
five population, is thirteen miles east
Of here and is in Jackson county. EN-
element runs high and it is feared that
the youth will he lynched before the OF
hcers can set him in jail at the county
seat IN Black River Falls.
Marshall is well-known ana highly
respected resident of the southern part
of Jackson county. He and his wife are
both young and Hazel, the victim OF
last nights tragedy, was their only ch,io;
1t is two years since Marshall adopted
young Palmer. The boy was bright ana
on the whole well-behaved, though ne
was always rather headstrong. MI. Mar
shall was away last evening and MRS.
Marshall and the child were alone IN
the house, while Palmer was doing the
chores around the barn.
During the day Mr.. Marshall had oc-
casion to reprimand the boy, and at
the time the latter showed some resent
ment, but it was thought the matter
would end there But it seems that
Palmer was consumed with a desire Tor
revenge, and as the afternoon hours wore
away he began making plans for a mur-
derous attack on the family. 1t IS pc,
leved that it was his intention to XII
Mrs Marshall and the child and then
returned in the evening.
Hazel was playing in the. yard and 1t
was an easy matter for Palmer to coax
her into the barn. Then he seized an
ak and dealt her several blows on the
head, any one of which would have been
enough to cause heath. From the barn
Palmer went toward the house. carrying
the ak. He intended to kill Mrs. Mar
shall, but as he neared the house his cour-
age failed him and he turned back, drop
ping the bloody ak on the steps.
Thoughts of the consequences of his
crime then frightened him and he conclud-
ed to try to secure compassion by pretend
ing to commit suicide. He smeared his
lips with carbolc acid and went out to
the icehouse to await the discovery OF
his crime.
1t was quite late when Mrs. Marshall
missed the child and made a search
which ended in finding the body lying in
a pool of blood on the barn floor. The
child was still breathing, but died a
few moments later. An alarm was Civ
en- and the farmyard was soon filled with
neighbOrs, who began to search for
Palmer, on whom suspicion fell at once.
His suicide ruse and feigned unconscious
ness failed and he was roughly dragged
from his hiding place in the ice-house.
Then he was bound and held to await
the arrival of the sheriff or some of
his deputies.
Palmer finally made a complete con-
fession, relating the details as given
above. He said that he had been read
ing stories of murders and admitted that
he got his idea of securing revenge from
one of these tales. Numerous threats
of lynching were made, but better coun-
sci prevailed and the officers were per-
mitted to start with him from the county
jail at Black River Falls.
Galcsville, Wis, Oct. 20.--[Special.]--
George Palmer, the murderer of little
Hazel Marshall at North Bend, escaped
lynching only by the quick action of
Constable John Hang in removing lfim
to the county jail at Black River Falls.
The constable quickly got the prisoner
away at 3 o'clock in the morning and he
is now behind the bars at the county
seat Palmer had but little to say re-
garding the awful crime. He had not
tie slightest provocation, nor did he
strike the blows on the impulse of the
moment He enticed the child to the
barn and eoelly Drained her with an AK.
Palmers mother lives at Wausau and
his father is an inmate of the state hos
pital for the insane at Oshkosh, and has
been for over five years. The boy is
about II years of age, but does not look
over IA. The funeral of his victim was
held today.
Black River Falls, Wis, Oct 90
Young Palmer is suffering from the eff
fects Of the carbolic acid mixture which
he took with suicidal intent after the
murder, and has been very weak. 1t j?
feared that inflammation of the bowel
Will set in. The common belief is tina
the boy is insane.