Year: 1871

The people of Tonawanda and Grand
Island are at present much interested in
revelations said TO nave been made in re-
;gard ID the commission Of q tearlul
tragedy which Mortified the community
sixteen wears ago. In the year 1855, in
litlIe settlement known as New Burgholtz,
in the Lown of Wheatfeld, about six miles
from Tonawanda, dwelt Prussian phys-
clan known as Dr. Stanger, man Of
some means and quite generally known.
One morning about Thanksgiving time, in
the fail Of the year named, visitor to
10 the house of the doctor found no one
to answer his call, and entering, found
the woman who had been employed as
housekeeper lying dead upon the floor,
and upon q bed the corpse of her daugh-
ter twelve years Of age, both bearing
CHASTITY wounds which had produced their
death. The discoverer of the scene OF
slaughter Immediately alarmed the neigh
borEo0d, and search was instituted for the
doctor.


AL length his dead body was found by
the roadside more than a mile from his
house, Indicating that he had either been
cnticed n that direction; or that, fleeing
from The murdcrers, he had at length been
over.aken and disposed of. Some pur-
pose other than robbery must have in
tiuenced the assassins, for none Of the
property in the victims house was dis
turbed, even hz gold watch remaing in
its accustomed place upon the wall A
great excitement was created in the neigh
borhoOd and strenuous efforts were made
to bring the guilty person t0 Justice, but
all ayalled nothing, for, although different
parties towards whom suspicion pointed
were taken into custody, nothing could be
proved against them, and they were re-
leased. Years passed on, the tragedy be-
coming an old-time story, and it seemed
shat the mystery which enshrouded it was
never to be cleared away. But At last, as
we are told, revelations have been made
tending in this case to verify the saying
that murder will out


ON Grand Island, at and after the time
Of the murder, resided with this family
one Christian Forbeck a man of rather
ill-repute, but against whom no suspicion
as to his completely in the crime was
directed Later his business affairs did
not prosper, and at length, perhaps eight
OF nme years ago, he removed to a west
ern State. Also near La Sale lived man
10y the name OF Wagner. OF his reputa-
ton we have learned but little He, too,
removed TO the West some years ago.


The present report, and which has re-
newed the interest in this affair of the
past, is that within the past few weeks
Christian Forbcck has expired, and that
upon his dying bed he made fill confess
sion that he it was, with the completely of
Wagner, who committed the triple mur-
der. Wagner, shortly after he went away
from this State, made his way to Michi-
gan, and there ended his career by per
forming the office of the hangman for him
self Buffalo Courier, oath.


SERIOUS CHARGES. The New York
Sun says.


The Chicago Times publishes some very
grave charges against Senator Pomeroy
of Kansas. 1t alleges that Mr.. Pomeroy
having fallen under the bower of a counter
feter from Ohio named Carman, by being
detected in criminal liaison with his wife
has not only paid Carman $4,000 of hush
money, but procured his appointment to
office in the Pension Bureau at Washing
land also obtained places in the Interior
Department for two of his sons while Mrs.
Carman and another woman of similar
character, named Mrs Grant, were ap-
pointed on the solicitation of Senator
Pomeroy to positions in the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing. These charges
were first laid before the public about a
month ago, and we have ever since
expected some contradiction of them
from Senator Pomeroy but none has come.
If they are true, they exhibit degree of
corruption and vice among Republican
officials at Washington which even the
robberies of the Tammany ring do not
exceed in atrocity and shamelessness