Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1892 — DUNNVILLE. [ARTICLE]

DUNNVILLE.

Hay making is about over. Miss Rosa Jones who has been visiting friends and relatives in Dun*ville and vicinity, returned to her home in Englewood last Monday. Rapid progress is being made on our new school building* It is to be completed by Sept 24. The Dunnville school teachers have all arrived home from the county Institute. r: Milton White, of Clayton, is visiting in the vicinity of Dunnville this week. The most brutal and atrocious murder to be found on the pages of criminal history, was committed three miles south-east of Dunnville on the evening of Sept. Ist. An old German by the name < f Gasting was murdered by his wife and step-daughter. They had threat ened to kill him aid he told one of his neighbors that lie was afr ftf d or them, as he believed they would carry, out their threat. Thursday his wife went to her daughter’s, a short distance from where they lived, and about 7 o’clock, he went after her; when he reached the house, he was knocked in the head with an ax by the. woman. After killing him they mutilated the body in the most

barbarous manner. They had taken knives and cut and hacked it, until all the resemblance of humanity was destroyed; one ear and the nose was -cut off and the other ear slit, the mouth was split from ear to ear, and the eyes gouged out. Tne fiendsuot being content with this, had taken •ticks and stuck them into the flesh and broke them off; as many splinters ahd slivers as could be held in the hand were taken (rom the face. After completing they: fiendish work, they dragged the. body into the woods and covered it with brush. The inquest was hold at San Pierre, Saturday. The younger woman s lid, “they intended to kill him and had killed him good. ” They were held for murder and taken to Knox Saturday evening, as there wes talk of lynching. Old Harper .