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The Port Huron Times Herald
Friday, 29 May 1874

         WIFE MURDERER
         
         The Murder of MRS. LINDON in Sheridan,
           Newaygo County.
           
         One of the most brutal murders on record was the
       murder of MRS. LINDON, probably by her husband. 
       Last Thursday morning MR. LINDON, who resided in
       Sheridan township, Newaygo county, went to Mr.
       SCHOONOVER'S, who is one of his near neighbors,
       and wished him and his people to come and help him
       look for his wife, stating that she and his razor
       were gone, and he was afraid she had gone off into
       the woods and killed herself. He stated that she
       had made several threats to that effect, and he
       had great fears that she had put them into execu-
       tion. Thereupon MR. SPOONER went in great haste
       to search for her body. On examining the woods in
       the rear of the house, MR. LINDON found her body
       lying behind the roots of an uprooted tree. He re-
       quested that the body should not be touched until
       there was an inquest. DR. R. M. CURTICE being sum-
       moned from Fremont, a jury was impaneled and a
       veridct rendered that she met her death by her own
       hands. Her funeral was the result and she was buried.
         On examining the ground subsequently, there were
       marks of a struggle found, and the neighbors became
       satisfied that there had been a murder and that MRS.
       LINDON had been butchered in cold blood. About six
       rods from where the body was found there was a 
       large pool of blood, and on both sides of this were
       marks of the toes and a part of the sole of the foot.
       Beyond this were marks of other feet. The tracks
       were not distinct, but the other marks went to show
       that MRS. LINDON must have stood there through near-
       ly all of her bleeding, and she could not have stood
       there without support. Again, there was no blood be-
       tween this and where the body was found, and the
       razor was under the body closed and all covered with
       blood, and there was no blood found on her hands.
       Taking these things into consideration the people
       went, and with the help of the principal doctors
       of Newaygo and Fremont, dug up the body, and to
       their asthonishment, instead of four or five wounds
       on the throat, as stated by inquest, there were
       seven or eight, and about the same number across
       the breast.
         In the meantime MR. LINDON was asked where his
       everyday clothes were, but his answer was that he
       did not know. Finally they were found, and his
       boots and clothes were covered with blood. On one
       boot was a large amount of blood and the prints of
       his fingers where he had drawn them across the leg
       to wipe the blood from off them. He was arrested
       and is now in the Newaygo county jail awaiting his
       trial.
         The conclusion is that he came up behind her,
       seized her hands, and, after a desperate struggle,
       succeeded in cutting her throat, held her in a
       standing position until dead, then picked up the
       body in his arms, carried it four or five rods,
       threw it into a hole by the root of the upturned
       tree, between a couple of logs, on the weapon with
       which he committed his crime.
         There had been trouble in the family for some
       time. MR. LINDON has not allowed her to visit
       her daughter who lives only one mile from their
       house. The people talk of raising a mob and lynch-
       ing the man. It is expected that he will be sent
       to Grand Rapids jail until court sits at Newaygo.
       
       [Transcriber's Note: 1870 Federal Census of Newaygo County,
        Michigan, Sheridan Twp., gives her name as BOENA and the
        surname was spelled LINDEN]
       
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