Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1894 — A BLOODY DEED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A BLOODY DEED.

Another Blot Cp'm the Hooiler Escutcheon. A Tell City special to the Indianapolis Sentinel, Monday, says: William U. Artman, a farmer, living about six miles northeast of Tell City, this morning killed his wife and oldest son. John Eads and William Nagle were the first to reach the house. They founl Artman lying on the floor with his murdered wife and boy. As soon as they entered tho house Artman lumped up and rushed at them like an infuriated wild beast, and It was with great difficulty that they overpowered him. The family were eating breakfast when the crime was committed. Artman, In the presence of his five children, stamped his wife to death. Her left breast was torn off, the collar bone broken, and she was terribly mangled about tho stomach and abdomen. Her left eye was cut out with a pocket-knife. The oldest boy, aged twelve, tried to defend his mother, and he suffered the same fate at the hands of hispnraged father. Coroner Labbard and his deputy, H. Nimsgren, found the boy lying across his mother, his arms around her neck. His body wus also terribly mangled. The mother’s body was found entirely naked, and the other children had fled to a neighbor’s almost naked and covered with blood. When taken in tho room where tho body of his wif ■ and son lay Nimsgren asked Artman whether he committed the deed, and his answer was, “Yes, Henry, I did. I killed them both.” , 4 4 The bedclothes and furniture were scattered about the room, showing signs of a terrible struggle. Artman Is about forty years old, six feet four Inches in height, and at present is raving like a maniac Artisan was conveyed U> tha-county jail at Cannelton. Tho coroner has not rendered his verdict, but all indications point to religious excitement as having caused his madness and the horrible tragedy. _

Hans Von Hnlow,- the distinguished German musician, died at Cairo. Egypt, Monday. Von Billow was horn at fjjrasden in iB3O. He wn tho son of a German novelist of great reputation and showed great aptitude for music from childhood. Ho man led a daughter of Liszt, but was divorced from her. and then she married Richard Wairner. the great musical comyusnr.

HANS VON BULOW.