Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1905 — PROVES THE MURDER OF FIVE [ARTICLE]

PROVES THE MURDER OF FIVE

Dismantling of aa Uneovora the Skeleton* of Three Men and Two Women. Hammond, Ind., July 2L—Men engaged in dismantling an old house on Brake Island. In the Kankakee river, which was occupied during the civil war by a trapper named Steele, have found in the cellar wall of the house three male and two female skeletons. The finding of these skeletons recalls Stories told by old settlers, who declare that an attempt to lynch Steele was made in 18(11, after the disappearance of a government agent named Barrington. While having in his possession $lO,000 with which he was commissioned to buy horses for the government he passed tiie night with Steele. The next morning his horse was found in the woods, but no trace of the man was ever found. In 1801 Steele’s wife and daughter disappeared. Following the threatened lynching Steele fieri.