THE CONSCIENCE OF A MURDERER

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue XXVII, 30 November 1905, Page 4

THE CONSCIENCE OF A MURDERER

» The body of Chas. Herzig has been found banging on a tree near Minot, North Dakota. A confession that he murdered Lizzie Grombacher in Ohio 80 years ago, for which crime Chas. Sterling was hanged, was pinned on the suicide's breast. Around bis neck was a piece of tbe veil with which he strangled tbe girl. Herzig bad told a fellow workman on the ranch that after murdering the girl witb ber own veil, he met Sterling, a tramp from Canada, who was seeking work, and offered to ex ohange shirts witb him. As Her zig's shirt was the better of the two, Sterling accepted the offer. The evidence against Sterling was en tirely circumstantial, and tbe first jury disagreed in its verdict. The second jury convicted. Sterling vehemently protested his innocencG, and predicted that the real murderer would be found and would confess. Herzig fled to Colorado and mar ried. Wben some Ohio people settled near by he feared tbat the murder would out, and went to Dakota, deserting bis wife and child. Always pursued by bis guilty conscience, he, strangely enough, kept a part of the veil for thirty years, in tending tn expiate his crime by taking his own life.