Hi folks,
Does anyone know anything about this murder mystery?
Warren Republican
December 23, 1880
A MURDERER AT LARGE
On the 25th of last month ABE. HENRY, a young man of desperate character
and who boasts that he has killed four men, residing with his uncle, JOS.
LEMING, living in Medina Township, this county, shot his uncle in the arm
with a No. 32 ball, from the effects of which he died on the 10th inst.
HENRY and his uncle had had trouble on the morning of the 25th because his
uncle refused to board him any longer. After the shooting nothing was done
more than to hush the matter up, and they so well succeeded that the facts
did not reach the ear of the public until LEMING's death.
It appears that during the two weeks intervening between the shooting
and the sad ending that HENRY remained at his uncle's. After LEMING's death
the attempt was made to arrest HENRY, but he made good his escape. When
closely pursured and about to be taken near Rainsville he turned upon his
pursurers, and drawing his revolver gave them to understand that he would
shoot the first man who attempted to take him. In this affair the name of
ex-Sheriff M.H. PEARSON has been tangled, it has been published in the
Chicago Times and Tribune that he was shot and killed. There is not truth
in the story, as MR. PEARSON had no connection with the matter at all.
LEMING was a good, honest, hard-working farmer and that he should lose
his life in such a manner and then the murderer go free is a disgrace to the
township where the deed was committed and the county that harbors such a
wretch.
Dr. A.V. MOORE was at once called to attend the wounded man and dressed
the wound, thinking that in due time it would heal, but in a few days
gangrene set in, when the doctor was called again it was too late. LEMING
died in great agony. It has now been 13 days since his death and no trace
of the murderer is to be found. Why the matter should be kept so quiet and
the citizens of Medina township did not investigate, is a matter which
demands an explanation.