People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — Family of Seven Murdered. [ARTICLE]

Family of Seven Murdered.

Alma, Wis., March 25.—The bodies of the seven members of the Oldhouse family, burned in the fire which destroyed their home at Herold March 7, were exhumed Tuesday, and investigation showed that they had been murdered prior to the fire. Two bullets were found in the man’s head, the mother had been killed with a hammer and one of the children perished by the same weapon. The motive was evidently robbery, as Oldhouse had sold his farm and was soon to remove to the west. No trace of the money was found, and there is no clew to the murderers.