The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Frightful murder.

--The St. Louis Bulletin states that, on Christmas day, two young German brothers, named Gottlich and Rudolph Regor, overtook an Irishman named O'Callighan, with whom they had had a previous difficulty, on the high road near Manchester, Mo. They immediately commenced an attack on him; Rudolph Regor first felled him to the ground senseless, with a blow from a slung-shot. The brothers then dragged the helpless and bleeding man to a grove, a few yards from the road, when, after striking him several times more with a slung shot, they stripped the clothes from his body, and picking up a quantity of dry branches that lay scattered over the ground, sharpened the ends, and with a billet of wood actually drove them into the body of the unfortunate man, whose life was almost extinct. They then, after piling combustible matter over the remains, set fire to the material, and burned the body to a crisp; and it appears they were only frightened from the spot on hearing the clatter of a horse's feet on the road, which induced them to make their escape across the fields.