This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Schiller, Kellner Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9800 Message Board Post: Galveston Daily News - Fri., 27 Jun 1884, p. 5, c. 4 Horrible Tragedy at Bryant Station [Special to The News] Buckholts, Nov. 6 - An inoffensive old Bohemian named Bernard Schiller, his wife and daughter, aged 15 months, were all murdered by some unknown party or parties at Bryant Station, 5-miles from this place. A brother of the murdered man, who had not seen him for several years, came here to see him last Saturday and not finding anyone at home went to a neighboring Bohemian's house and stayed there, thinking they were off on a visit. Returning the next day, and still finding no one, suspicions were aroused and some of the neighbors, looking through the window, saw blood on the bed, floor and stove. They broke into the house, the door being locked and the key gone, and found undoubted evidence of murder. Then the search for the bodies commenced and was terminated yesterday by finding the remains buried, face downward, by the side of an oat-stack, about 100 yards from the house. They were evidently preparing to go to bed when murdered, as the old man had one shoe off and the woma! n and child were both in their nightclothes. The child was killed by a blow from a club or some similar weapon, crushing the entire skull while the man and wife were both shot in the head. From the advanced stage of decomposition when found, the murder was committed nearly a week ago. Charles Kellner was arrested last night on suspicion and is now in jail awaiting further developments. The coroner's jury adjourned this morning, after deliberating all night, without a verdict. The man arrested is also a Bohemian and has been seen about the house several times since the disappearance of the Schillers and told parties who inquired where the folks were that they were hunting pecans on the bottom. When the neighbors first broke into the house they found a life insurance policy for $1,200. The party or parties who committed the murder evidently returned to the place afterward as the insurance policy, shotgun and a pistol were missing when the corner's jury made its examination. Another Account Cameron, Nov. 6 - Three corpses were bound buried in the yard of a Bohemian named Schiller, near Bryant Station, about 12-miles from Cameron. They proved to be the bodies of Schiller and his wife and child. A fire had been built over the place of interment. A horrible murder is evident and the grand jury is investigating the matter.