Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1891 — BRUTALLY MURDERED. [ARTICLE]

BRUTALLY MURDERED.

About sunrise Thursday morning Solomon Neideff&r, a well to do young fanner living eight miles east of Mitchell, lef ( home to go to a sale sonfe miles away, and before leaving advised his wife to go to tho house of her father, Joshua Lewis, about a quarter of a mile from their home, The husband did not return until nearly dark that evening. Entering the house hi could find no trace of his wife until h f wont into a rear room, where he found het body lying cold and stiff, with two bullel holes, one in the forehead and the othet in the right side. It appears that the murdered woman had made an attempt to Jefend herself. ;as in her right hand sht still clasped a stove-hook, and her left hand was badly powder-burned, as though she had thrown up her hands to protect herself when shot There is not the slightest clew to the brutal assassin, as nc suspicious characters were seen on the roads all day, and the place being so sac from any railroad, a tramp would -have been certain to attract attention, as the country is rather thickly settled there there being several neighbors Within a radius of one-fourth mile. A determined effort is being made to apprehend themurjdcrer, and every man in the neighborhood will be compelled to give a strict account of himself on that day or be regarded with suspicion. There is no possibility of Mrs. Meideffer having committed suicide, as there was no revolver in the house noi ' hepnone found on tremises.