A FAMILY MURDERED. Afraid of the Cold.
A Swede coming in from a remote Swedish settlement to the* south-east and Mille Laos Lake, United States, states that a farmer named Henry Qlstrom butchered his whole family, consisting of wife and seven children. The- deed ..was. done, the informant says, becauso the father found all were going to perish in the extremely cold weather. No steps had been taken to arrest the slayer; and so severe was the cold that the bodies had not yet been interred. The informant' himself froze' both hands, his ears, and his 1 nose in coming in, travelling all rtigfit with the mercury at forty or fifty below zero.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 250, 28 March 1888, Page 4
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113A FAMILY MURDERED. Afraid of the Cold. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 250, 28 March 1888, Page 4
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