The ax murders of Saxtown : the unsolved crime that terrorized a town and shocked the nation / Nicholas J.C. Pistor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, [2014]Description: xvi, 239 pages, 8 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780762786978
  • 0762786973
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 364.152/30977389 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6533.I4 P57 2014
Summary: "...The never-before-told story of the 1874 Saxtown massacre that rocked a nation reeling from economic depression and shattered a small German immigrant farming community in Illinois. The murder of the Stelzriede family led investigators through forests and farmland, chasing footprints, bloody tobacco leaves, and the marks of an ax dragged away from the scene..." --Amazon.com.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-229) and index.

"...The never-before-told story of the 1874 Saxtown massacre that rocked a nation reeling from economic depression and shattered a small German immigrant farming community in Illinois. The murder of the Stelzriede family led investigators through forests and farmland, chasing footprints, bloody tobacco leaves, and the marks of an ax dragged away from the scene..." --Amazon.com.

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