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Slnilat Murder Nnir fhlfAfCO. (‘iiicai.o. Nov. I r.—A terrible murder was jHT|K‘ti«ini Friday night four miles west *»* Dcspluitics, Cook county. The vie* tiins were Joachim Demlow and hi* wife, j Germans, ami the motive apjicars to have been robbery. The supposed murderers are | two tramps, and the j'Ojplo in t-luit. vicinity are intensely excited and will hang the I murderers, ii’ caught, without much ! ceremony. It apjH»ars that the family, which consisted of Demlow and his wife and their 12-yeur* ild son, retired early Friday j evening. The lx»y whh awakened by a noise in hi* room, and saw two men turning the the clothes, etc., out of trunks, wardrobes,* and otlier places, looking for money, it is j supprtfvd. Ho was so frightened that he I could not cry out or movo until the quiet of the house indicated that tlio men wore gone. Ho then got up ami ran to the nearest neighbor, and soon a crowd of foo pie were on the spot, 'i bis was atxnit 10 \k hi. Friday. After a wmrch thebody of Doru-low was found in the stable with a bag drawn over his head. Upon examination it was found that he wm not dead, but bad several had cuts on hi* Imad and another on ids neck. Ho was unconscious und his physician lias no hopes for his recovery. Mrs. Demlow was found aft *r a long search under a stack of corn stalk*. She was quite dead, ami had a hag drawn over her head the same as her husband. The murder was com* mit,teed with a corn knife, the broken blade | of which was found buried in her brain.The boy's description of the murderers la I very meager, and it is doubtful if they will be caught, as although when the murder was j discovered they could not have had more than half hour’s start, no one see mod t«o think of the uorottity of immediate pursuit and they uro now probably fur away from the beetle of their crime. The amount of money they obtained was very small it is lie lieved.
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Dixon Daily Telegraph
Dixon, Illinois, US
Mon, Nov 17, 1884
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