St. Louis County MO Archives News.....Brutal Murder August 31, 1848
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The Hannibal Journal August 31, 1848
Brutal Murder. -- On Saturday night last, two men went to the residence of a 
Mr. Weibold, some five or six miles from this city on the Gravois road, and 
attempted to remove from under a bed a trunk containing money.  The family was 
absent except a lady sixty-four years of age named Darota Henson, and a boy.  
As one of the villians was in the act of drawing the trunk from beneath the 
bed the old lady seized and held him; he drew a knife and inflicted a severe 
wound upon her person, then turned upon the boy and stabbed him in the left 
breast severely, but not mortally.  The thief then left the house, and the boy 
shortly after went to a neighbor's for assistance; on the return of the boy 
and the neighbors, they found the old lady dead, with her throat cut from ear 
to ear, and the money gone.

The reports are conflicting with regard to the amount of money obtained by the 
murderers -- some say but six, and some say three hundred and seventy-five 
dollars were taken.

The villains are not known. -- St. Louis Union


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