Honoring the Murdered Stelzriede Family Traditional Cache
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Honoring the Murdered Stelzriede Family
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A family slain rests here in unmarked graves, which are located in the northwest corner of the cemerery. Pay your respects as you seek thia cache.
[QUOTE who="Budman"]St.Louis Post Dispatch March 21, 1874 SAXTOWN
This is a copy of the actual newspaper article.
A Terrible Scene in the Stillzenreider Farm House.
A Family of Five Persons Butchered in their beds.
A Reward of $1000 Offered For The Delection of the Perpetrators.
The Latest Information Concerning The Tragedy-No Clues Thus Far to the Murderers.
The particulars of a horrible murder reached here today from Centreville, about 13 miles south of Bellevile. The affair occurred at the farm house of Fritz Stillzenreider, in the American Bottom, 3 miles south of Centerville, at a neighborhood known as Saxtown. The whole family, consisting of 5 persons, were discovered weltering in their blood, late yesterday afternoon by one of the neighbors, who happened to call at the house. Fritz Stillzenreider, a middle aged German of respectability, was found with his throat cut from ear to ear. His son had been disposed of in the same manner, while his son's wife had her skull fearfully crushed as if by an axe. The two children, aged respectively 8 months old and 3 years old, had been dispatched in the same manner as the mother. The younger child was tightly clasped in the mother's arms. The bodies were all cold when found, and the supposition is the murder was committed the night before the discovery for purposes of plunder. Sheriff Hughes, of St. Clair County, in which the tragedy occurred, went down to the farm late last night with 2 deputies. The morning coroner, Ryan, went down to hold an inquest.
It was only about 6 weeks ago that a German farmer riding down to his farm in the American Bottom, was shot down in broad daylight and killed. Still another farmer was assaulted in his wagon and beaten nearly to death. These brutal affairs were attributed to a gang of negroes in the Bottom and on or two arrests were made.
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