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G. Sterne, Wife & Two Children

G. Sterne, wife and two children, of Keokuk, were poisoned the other morning by arsenic that had been put in the tea-kettle by some person intent upon the death of the family. Their lives saved by prompt medical attendance.

Sioux City Journal, Des Moines Register, June 15, 1873
Transcribed and Submitted by Dawn Minard


Bill Young

Keokuk, Iowa, 25 - The trial of Bill Young for the murder of the Spencer family, which has been progressing at Kahoka, Missouri, the past three weeks, terminated today in a verdict of acquittal.

Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Wed verdict of acquittal.., Oct. 29, 1879
Submitted By: Candi Horton

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