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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], Horrible affair (search)
Horrible affair --Jacob Schriner and Adam Snowberger, both married men, lived near neighbors, and it is said that Schriner has been living in criminal intimacy with Snowberger's wife Agnes. About three weeks ago Snowberger suddenly disappeared, and on inquiries being made as to his whereabouts. Schriner replied that he supposed that he had gone to the army, or to Ohio to visit his father. On Tuesday of last week Schriner's wife, Elizabeth, died very suddenly, and was buried the next day. Suspicious of foul play were aroused among their neighbors, and Schriner was arrested.--Search was made, and Snowberger's body was found in a brush heap; twenty or thirty rods from Schriner's house, his head split open with the sharp edge of an axe. Schriner confesses that he kill Snowberger while working together. He says that he was put up to it by Snowberger's wife; that he was to kill Snowberger, and shot to kill his (Schriner's) wife. Mrs. Snowberger has been arrested on the charge of