News: REAM-GARBER Murders, December 28, 1857, Lancaster County, PA

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The Double Murder In Lancaster County - The murder of Mrs. Garber 
and Mrs. Ream, in Lancaster Co Pa has given rise to intense excitement there- 
The Express, of Thursday evening , says; "The Funeral of Mrs. Garber and Mrs. 
Ream took place this morning at 10 o'clock. The remains were interred in a 
grave yard near Kissel, on the Litiz turnpike, about four miles from the 
house. The train of carriage and horsemen was probably the largest ever seen 
in the county; over four hundred carriages alone were in the procession, and 
not-with-standing the solemnity of the occasion, the exictement, among the 
people, through fear that the guilty might escape the punishment so justly due 
them, is said to have been terrible in the extreme, and it is expected that 
not less than a thousand people from the surrouding country will be in town on 
Saturday to attend the hearing of the prisoners. The feeling of indignation is 
intense, and threats are freely made that the prisoners will not be allowed to 
return to the prison alive. We trust, however, that no unlawful act will be 
attempted, and that the "sober second thought" will prevail against any 
violence.
   The two negroes under arrest have been fully identified as the two men who 
were seen to enter the house of the two unfortunate victims.


The Adams Sentinel, Gettysburg Pa December 28, 1857



Additional Comments:
April 12, 1858 TASGP - The two negroes, Anderson and Richards, the brutal 
butchers of Mrs. Gerber and Mrs. Ream, of Manheim Township, Lancaster County, 
were executed on Friday last, in the prison yard at Lancaster. Anderson has 
made a full confession and enumerated a number of other crimes than the one 
for which he was executed.