The Murder That Stunned New Glarus
In November 1882, farmer Henry Stuessy was found shot to death in the woods near New Glarus, setting off a murder case involving a hired hand, a wife, a confession and seven children left behind.
Henry Stuessy left home on a Sunday in November 1882, walking into the woods south of New Glarus with his hired man and a rifle.
By the next day, the 32-year-old farmer was dead, found in the timber a short distance from his home with two bullet wounds to the head. The killing would become one of Green County’s darkest early murder cases: a hired hand accused of pulling the trigger, a wife accused of plotting the death of her husband and a family of young children scattered because of the crime.
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