Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1896 — Old Barbarities Recalled. [ARTICLE]

Old Barbarities Recalled.

The very extensive excavations under and about the river at Blackwell have resulted in very few discoveries of any interest. One object, however, was unearthed, of a decidedly startling character. It was on the Middlesex shore, just at the crossing of two rands. Here the excavators unearthed a corpse or rather a skeleton, with a stake driven through the body. It was no doubt the remains of some hapless suicide, buried here at the cross-roads, after the charitable fashion of bygone times.