"The Kansas City Evening Star" (Missouri) Thursday, January 24, 1884 THE VICTIM DIES. The death of the aged Mrs. HARTMAN at Wyandotte, at 2 o'clock this morning, consummated as dreadful a crime as has ever horrified the quiet community in which she lived. The case was in many ways a parallel of the Maybee murder and other kindred crimes which have sent a thrill of consternation across the continent. In fact, one of those waves of brutality, hard to account for, impossible to understand, seems to be passing at present over the country. The details of the crime have been published in this paper, but the death will render a brief resume of interest. Mrs. HARTMAN was a woman 67 years of age, and quite feeble. She lived in a little cottage on Ann street, in Wyandotte. On Monday evening she went to a grocery store kept by her daughter, who assisted her home with some small purchases. Two hours later she was found lying on the floor in a pool of blood. She was insensible from a terrible blow across the face, which had broken her nose and on the head were other contusions. The blows were evidently struck with a blunt instrument and there was also a deep mark across the wrist which she had probably raised to protect her face. Her pocket book was gone and her clothing disarranged in an evident search for other money. The pocket book is supposed to have contained about $6 in small bills and silver. Under medical treatment she partially recovered consciousness, but not reason, and became wildly delirious. It was foreseen that her injuries were probably of a fatal nature but it was hoped that she might so far recover as to be able to furnish a clue to her brutal assailant. Such, however, was not to be. Yesterday she passed into a partially comatose condition in which her nearest approach to consciousness was to occasionally motion for a drink of water. At 2 o'clock this morning she died. There has rarely been a case that furnished so few clues as this. The lips that could have, in all human probability, fastened the crime upon the right head are sealed forever and the murderer left no trace. There is a profound feeling in the neighborhood and in fact throughout the entire town that unless the perpetrator of this crime is unearthed, life will be indeed cheap and at the mercy of the first prowling tramp who is tempted to take it. The deceased was born in Germany in 1817. Nearly fifty years ago she came to this country. She is one of the old settlers of Wyandotte who watched its corner stones laid in troublous times --- twenty-seven years ago. Lately her husband has lived away from her, he staying on the farm some four miles west of the city, while the old lady lived with the sons on Ann street, near St. Mary's Catholic church. No unusual importance attaches to the separation between husband and wife, and the former has been able to thoroughly account for his whereabouts on the fatal night. The funeral will occur at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning. ======================================================