People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — MURDERED BY HIS SON. [ARTICLE]

MURDERED BY HIS SON.

The Mystery of a Wisconsin Farmers* Disappearance Cleared Up. Wausau, Wis., Nov. 14.—William Habeck’s mysterious disappearance from his home near Edgar was cleared up Saturday by neighbors finding his body about 80 rods from his home in the woods in a newly made grave, with a tree fallen across it and the brush piled over it His son Herman, aged 19, confessed having killed him with an ax. He was assisted by his brother Otto, aged 17, in secreting the body. Both were arrested and brought to this city.