A RELENTLESS AVENGER.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5255, 26 January 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

A RELENTLESS AVENGER.

A-'FATHER; SPENDS TBAK3 . IN; ,BRINGING'' TO JUSTICE THE MUUDEIIEKS OE HIS-' s’oN. ‘ (From the Lmiisville Commercial.) ; ( , William Ne\vland, son o£ Richard Nowland, an old aii well-known farmer of Washington, jcoupty, in 1867, with bis, young wife; find a, child less .than a year bid, left his home* tol ! settle in’Kansas.'" In'company went Charles .Waller and, wife,' and ,their■ eon,; neighbors! When’ they reached Webster county, Missouri, Newfaud, his, wife, and' child were murdered iindey. circumstances that led, to the .an est of Charles Waller and wife, tho son haying escaped.. ; Some .days after tho tragedy the remains' Of K’ewland were found in the woods,' 1 and; those of; his ‘wife were 'discovered in a ravine about six miles beyond. Tho remains of.the child,were-never discovered, but bones were found winch some of, the, citizens thought 1 might be those of the child. Charles Waller was put upon trial for the ’ murder, and iolmd guilty, and in 1872 .ho expiated hia crime on the gallows. ... His wife was also tried for’being accessory to the murder, and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in the /Missouri penitentiary. ' - /: n ’• - > - Charles Waller was always reticent about tho murder,- maintaining his innocence -stoutly up to a short time before his execution/ j Then he admitted that he had gone:out hunting with Newland; and shot him- in the woods.:, [Upon, hia return he told his son, that ho had disposed .of Newland,-mid, they must.dispose of the wife and child to, cover 'up their- tracks. Richard ■ tlio-father of determined that the son of Waller should also be .broughtto.;justice.'l_For_.five_yeara. he'lias been searching,: through detectives, ,-to^disoover'. his whereabouts.;; His search was -finally successful, the-son.being found on a, farm 1 up in 1 .Minnesota,:,;' He-iWftS arrested and taken to ■ Webster county,-Mo., some time ago, and, re-cently-the trial took place, .and he confessod.to; manslaughter,, and , was, sentenced to; forty, years in tho penitentiary. One;of thojmain facts-.which,'ledr to hia conviction was, the

identification of a. bedspread arid’ Other"articles belonging to the murdered 'family. These articles were identified by Mr. Nevvland as the property of his daughter-in-law.. The father Of the murdered man has spent large sums of money in ferreting out and bringing Injustice the murderers. - ■" ’