Cheboygan County MI Archives News.....A Murderer Suicides October 11, 1894
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Denver [CO] Post October 11, 1894
Leaves Behind Him Letters That Admit His Crime

Cheboygan, Mich., Oct. 11.-The mystery of the murder of Gus Genesemer on the 
railroad three miles northwest of here six weeks ago has been cleared up. George 
Van Taylor, the man's chum, held as a suspect, cut his throat at the jail here 
and died instantly. Shortly after dinner, while Sheriff Sullivan was at court, 
Taylor asked for a razor to shave with, and on getting it made a remark that 
scared the girl, and she sent for the sheriff, but Taylor immediately went to 
his cell and cut his throat, nearly severing his head from his body, and was 
dead when the sheriff got there.

Taylor left three letters, one to his relative, Phineas Dunham of Castalia, 
Ohio; one to his sweetheart, Nettie Abbs of Gypsum, Ohio, and one to the 
officers, in which he confessed to twelve murders, but as he was only 22 years 
of age this is probably pure imagination. In his letter to the officers he tells 
where to find Genesemere's clothes and $511, and says he had a chum, and is glad 
they did not get him.

So far neither money nor clothes have been found, and it is probable that if he 
had a chum the money is gone. Opinions prevail that he killed Genesmere with a 
stone while he was laying down and had no help. He says the victim lived in 
Muncie, Ind. The murderer has relatives in Cecil, O., a sister at Castalia, O., 
and other relatives. The letter to Nettie Abbott contains some villainous 
poetry, and asks her not to marry. He wants to be buried besides his mother in 
Ohio. Officers had for some time been accumulating circumstantial evidence 
against Taylor, and had questioned him until he had given up hope and was 
scared.

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