From the Milwaukee
News.
A shocking tragedy
occurred in the town of
Caledonia, Racine
County, on Wednesday
night. A boy named
JOHN STITESHY, the
only son of a
respectable Bohemian,
residing near the
Chicago and Milwankee
Railroad track, in the
northern part of
Caledonia, Racine
County, committed one
of the most atrocious
and cold-blooded acts
of combined parricide
and hoinicide that has
ever been recorded in
the anuals of crime. The
circumstances are as
follows:
The father, who was a
farmer in excellent
circumstances, had
been laboring in the
woods during the day,
and had come in at
nightfall for his supper.
The meal was prepared
and the mother called
JOHN, who is an only
son, about 19 years old,
to come in to tea. The
aged couple sat down
to their meal, thinking
the boy would presently
join them, when
suddenly a shot was
fired through the
window pane of the
room, and the father
was struck by a ball in
the left arm, completely
shattering it at the
elbow. The mother
started up, and at the
same instant another
report resounded, and
she was struck in the
abdomen by a bullet,
which passed
completely through her
body!
In another moment
another discharge was
heard in the yard, and
the father, who, with
paternal instincts
divined the nature and
effect of this third shot,
summoned strength
enough to get out of
doors, where he found
his son weltering in his
blood, and already
gasping his last. He had
murdered both his aged
parents with the two
barrels of one gun and
had shot himself
through the body with
another weapon,
ending his life almost
instantly.