CONSCIFNCE-STRICKEN.

Evening Star, Issue 12652, 4 November 1905, Page 9

CONSCIFNCE-STRICKEN.

The body of Charles Herzig has been found hanging on a tree near Minot, North Dakota. A confession that he murdered Lizzie Grombacher in Ohio thirty years ago, for which crime Cbarks Staling was hanged, was pinned on the suicide's breast. Around hia neck was a piece of the veil with which he strangled the girl. Herzig had told a fellow workman on the ranch that after murdering the girl with her own veil ho met Sterling, a tramp from Canada, who was seeking work, and offered to exchange shirts with him. As Herzig's shirt was the better of the two, Sterling accepted the offer. The evidence against Sterling was entirely circumstantial, and the first jury disagreed in their verdiot. The second convicted. Sterling vehemently protested his innocence, and predicted that the real murderer would be found and would confess. Herzig fled to Colorado, where he married. When some Ohio people settled near by he feared that the murder woidd out, and went to Dakota, deserting his wife and child. Always pursued by his guilty conscience, he, strangely enough, kept a part of the vlil for thirty years, intending to expiate his crime by taking his own life.