People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — At TEXAS TRAGEDY. [ARTICLE]

At TEXAS TRAGEDY.

Woman and Child Murdered by an Unknown Maa. Laredo, Tex., Nov. 14. —A murder most foul, and in cruelty exceeding anything that has ever transpired in this vicinity, was unearthed yesterday, and the murderer has been found dead, he having committed suicide at a hotel, where he had registered Monday with a middle-aged woman and an 8-year-old girl as C. Shuler and family, of San Antonio. About 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon the man procured a horse and buggy, ostensibly to'drive his wife and child to the depot. About 4:30 he returned the buggy and proceeded to the hotel, ate supper and retired' to his room. Early in the morning a Mexican shepherd discovered bodies of the womand child lying in some brush about three miles northeast of the city. They were identified as having been seen with the so-called Shuler. The chief of police called at the hotel, when the man was found lying dead upon the bed, with a bullet in his heart. Under his pillow was found an insurance policy for $3,000 and a deed of trust executed for property in East St. Louis. From papers found it is believed that his name is Kuntz, and that he is from St. Louis.