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Mceder jj» MjUfirawoc.—Tha Manitowoc 'Tribune of Thursday last bring* us tha fal-lowing 'partlcnilora of a Shocking murder commkted ini that County last week:A horrid murder was committed near tho ’branch Mills in this .County on Sunday evening last.*-. We gather the following from tho statement of one of tho Coroner’s jury, ntid U Is u review‘of tho .evidence, which came before it. A -'German limned John - Martin .Goetz, hearing a noise about hia premises wont out and found two men’whom ho ordered off, nod mi tboir refusing to foaru attempted to drive thurn away. They commenced heating him with chibs mid hu called bis sun in his assistance, the hoy weoived n sovoru blow on tho head which knocked him dnwii/ind retreated to tho house. When ho left the tun men weio pounding his father with clubs mid thu appearances of the ground imlicatud a severe struggle.When ho again rat tinted in company with a neighbor tho won worn gone', and groping about he stumbled nvor titu corp so at Ids father, »trendy stiffening in deutli. j Near the place where tho body was found, f two clubs newly cut mid trimmed, wore piekid up, and an asa covered wiih blood mid iuiir was also found lying near the spot. The head of this corpses was'horribly inun-1 glud ami bruised, tho phouldors, arms and [sides bore tho murks of blows, indicted with bludgeon*. Goetz leaves n wife and sis cisildicn. this youngest less than a year old.V.’u have seldom heard of a more aggravated cu-u of homicide, and this bare recital of tho eufmgB is suliieiout to chill the Wood j with horror. Thu boy has » Junto gosh on ! tbo top of Ids head, nhich he says u«s inflicted with a clubSheriff Adams has offered a reward of 8200 fur the apprehension of the murderers, and tho ofiicors arts on tho triusk of those on whom suspicion mis.
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Oshkosh Courier
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Feb 13, 1856
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