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Show Farmer, Wife, Five Children and Farm Hand Murdered Horeibly TURTLE LAKE. X. D., April 24. Eight persons were found dead today at the farm home of Jacob Wolff, three miles north of here, victims in a mysterious tragedy. The dead: Jacob Wolff and his wife-Their wife-Their five daughters. Bertha, aged 13; Edna. S; Mary, 10; Lydia, 5, and Martha. 4. Jake Hofer, 1G years old, who was employed on the farm. Only one member of the family escaped, Emma, eight months old. Authorities believe all were mur-j mur-j dered with a hatchet. The bodies of the mother, throe daughters and the hired man were thrown into tho cel- lar by the slayer or slayers, and tho father and two children put in a cowshed and bai n and covered with hay. The bodies were found by John Kraft, a neighbor, when he visited the place today. In the barn he found the bodies of Wolff and tho hired boy, with wounds in their heads, lying ly-ing on the floor. Kraft then rushed to the house where In the cellar he - found the? bodies of Mrs. Wolff and four children chil-dren lying In a heap on the floor Wolff was 45 jears old and was well liked by his neighbors and residents resi-dents of the vicinity. |