ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT - APRIL 28, 1856
COLD BLOODED MURDER OF A KANSAS EMIGRANT—DEATH OF HIS WIFE.— We learned on Saturday of the murder of Mr. Alfred Wilber, late of Illinois, and a son of Mr. Jeptha Wilber, of Avon, Livingston county, who was on his way with his family, consisting of a wife and three children, to the Territory of Kansas, where he designed settling.
It appears that Mr. Wilber was traveling upon the cars, and was free in communicating the purpose of his journey. He had in his possession two of Sharp's rifles. At a station, the name of which has not been ascertained, he stepped from the cars, and the opportunity was seized by some person or persons, as yet unknown, to murder him. The fact became known to a few passengers, as one of them, soon after the cars started, informed Mrs. Wilber of the tragic fate of her husband. She became almost frantic, and besought the conductor to stop, but he refused, and in her excitement she jumped from the train while under fast motion, and was almost instantly killed. This sad occurrence is said to have taken place about three weeks since, and the father of the murdered man started two weeks ago to ascertain more fully the circumstances, and look after the children thus suddenly made orphans.
The following paragraph is from the Sturgis Republican, of the 16th April 1956:
Mr. Alfred Wilber — the death of whose wife we gave an account of in our last — passed through this place, en route for Ontario, Ind., last Friday evening. We have been informed that he appeared very much afflicted; that he did not know of Mrs. Wilber's death until a short time before his arrival here. We have not learned all the particulars of his detention.
COLD BLOODED MURDER OF A KANSAS EMIGRANT—DEATH OF HIS WIFE.— We learned on Saturday of the murder of Mr. Alfred Wilber, late of Illinois, and a son of Mr. Jeptha Wilber, of Avon, Livingston county, who was on his way with his family, consisting of a wife and three children, to the Territory of Kansas, where he designed settling.
It appears that Mr. Wilber was traveling upon the cars, and was free in communicating the purpose of his journey. He had in his possession two of Sharp's rifles. At a station, the name of which has not been ascertained, he stepped from the cars, and the opportunity was seized by some person or persons, as yet unknown, to murder him. The fact became known to a few passengers, as one of them, soon after the cars started, informed Mrs. Wilber of the tragic fate of her husband. She became almost frantic, and besought the conductor to stop, but he refused, and in her excitement she jumped from the train while under fast motion, and was almost instantly killed. This sad occurrence is said to have taken place about three weeks since, and the father of the murdered man started two weeks ago to ascertain more fully the circumstances, and look after the children thus suddenly made orphans.
The following paragraph is from the Sturgis Republican, of the 16th April 1956:
Mr. Alfred Wilber — the death of whose wife we gave an account of in our last — passed through this place, en route for Ontario, Ind., last Friday evening. We have been informed that he appeared very much afflicted; that he did not know of Mrs. Wilber's death until a short time before his arrival here. We have not learned all the particulars of his detention.
ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT - APRIL 28, 1856
COLD BLOODED MURDER OF A KANSAS EMIGRANT—DEATH OF HIS WIFE.— We learned on Saturday of the murder of Mr. Alfred Wilber, late of Illinois, and a son of Mr. Jeptha Wilber, of Avon, Livingston county, who was on his way with his family, consisting of a wife and three children, to the Territory of Kansas, where he designed settling.
It appears that Mr. Wilber was traveling upon the cars, and was free in communicating the purpose of his journey. He had in his possession two of Sharp's rifles. At a station, the name of which has not been ascertained, he stepped from the cars, and the opportunity was seized by some person or persons, as yet unknown, to murder him. The fact became known to a few passengers, as one of them, soon after the cars started, informed Mrs. Wilber of the tragic fate of her husband. She became almost frantic, and besought the conductor to stop, but he refused, and in her excitement she jumped from the train while under fast motion, and was almost instantly killed. This sad occurrence is said to have taken place about three weeks since, and the father of the murdered man started two weeks ago to ascertain more fully the circumstances, and look after the children thus suddenly made orphans.
The following paragraph is from the Sturgis Republican, of the 16th April 1956:
Mr. Alfred Wilber — the death of whose wife we gave an account of in our last — passed through this place, en route for Ontario, Ind., last Friday evening. We have been informed that he appeared very much afflicted; that he did not know of Mrs. Wilber's death until a short time before his arrival here. We have not learned all the particulars of his detention.
COLD BLOODED MURDER OF A KANSAS EMIGRANT—DEATH OF HIS WIFE.— We learned on Saturday of the murder of Mr. Alfred Wilber, late of Illinois, and a son of Mr. Jeptha Wilber, of Avon, Livingston county, who was on his way with his family, consisting of a wife and three children, to the Territory of Kansas, where he designed settling.
It appears that Mr. Wilber was traveling upon the cars, and was free in communicating the purpose of his journey. He had in his possession two of Sharp's rifles. At a station, the name of which has not been ascertained, he stepped from the cars, and the opportunity was seized by some person or persons, as yet unknown, to murder him. The fact became known to a few passengers, as one of them, soon after the cars started, informed Mrs. Wilber of the tragic fate of her husband. She became almost frantic, and besought the conductor to stop, but he refused, and in her excitement she jumped from the train while under fast motion, and was almost instantly killed. This sad occurrence is said to have taken place about three weeks since, and the father of the murdered man started two weeks ago to ascertain more fully the circumstances, and look after the children thus suddenly made orphans.
The following paragraph is from the Sturgis Republican, of the 16th April 1956:
Mr. Alfred Wilber — the death of whose wife we gave an account of in our last — passed through this place, en route for Ontario, Ind., last Friday evening. We have been informed that he appeared very much afflicted; that he did not know of Mrs. Wilber's death until a short time before his arrival here. We have not learned all the particulars of his detention.
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