Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1858 — Horrible Depravity. [ARTICLE]

Horrible Depravity.

i Jin Old Man Coolly arid Jielibcrqt ely Kills Jht Son and Boasts of the JJetd dr rest and Imprisonment • the Murderer and his Wife. Wc have to record another deei! ol Mood. . j the circumstances of which, even in the in- | complete manner we have learned them, are - 1 of a nature to appal the thinking portion of our people. Some weeks ago, a mill at St. Mary’s, on the river between this place and Cairo, was destroyed by lire. The mill was i the property 01/AVin. Schaff, Jr., or him and | his father conjointly The son djsired to have seine repair made upon the building,or or that it should be rebuilt us speedily as possible, to which t seems the elder Mr. SchafT objected. The son proceeded to St. Louis and procured some inen to clear away the ruins, mid in due time arrived at the scene of disaster on the steamer R indolpb, On last Wednsday morning while young Mr. Sc.li.aff am! the men wore busily occupied in the partly demolished building, the obi man procured his gun, which was diurged, it is said, with twenty-seven . buck ; hot and one slug. Sneaking through the rub fish, he moved hither and thither, seeking a favorable opportunity to accomplish his belli di pnri posiq tho murder of his own son. As the cl; - | cumstance was related to ur. we think we can hear his demoniacal chuckle of satisfactionas he iveislessly thrust the barre! of his giiif in a hoi- of the engine room w: li and • rested tie mtizzie upon the fly-whet I. JL drew the trigger and the unsuspecti ig victim fell having receive,d the whole charg. in hig left breast. He was killed inManth. Thej’slug passed entirely through his bodv and lodged in a piece 'oi wood behind Th ? affair cae ! ui'.-ii excitement, and mob 1 i'.v was a 1 —ts e.-ur-e. but the-murderer wau • h/u.1v.l ii .• i.\ i.-h-nce by the law-abidinl? eiti;',cu-vjaulll the an \ ..1 m the Philadelphia,~s>n which ... ;mer I e and his wife were conveyed to Sle. G -m v'ieve.wyliorh they were lodged in the coitiit* prison, there to await further actioi^ Th;e old man when charged by some one with the enormity of his crime, said he inter ’ 'd to kill his son long before, and vislird it t; e L : three Instead of one. 11 is bearing. i a ■'! physiognomy were tlio.-e oi a hjirtiea id •, lilaln. Th'e murdered man ! bad a wife and two children.— St. J.buis _ Democrat, 2 olh Auyu*i.