Burial record from the church records.
Following are two articles concerning the death of Michael Hoch.
The articles were transcribed exactly as they appeared in the newspapers - including misspellings.
Daily Missouri Democrat
Saint Louis, Wednesday Morning, January 11, 1860
MURDER IN MANCHESTER - A man named Hammond Dorle, was committed to jail yesterday, on a charge of murder. It appears that on Monday night, Dorle had some difficulty with his wife and struck her several blows, she screamed so loudly as to attract the attention of her neighbors, among whom was Mr. Herman Hock, proprietor of the Manchester Brewry. Hock went into the house and threw himself between Dorle and his wife, and refused to allow the husband to again lay violent hands upon her. Enraged still more at this interference, Dorle seized a rifle that stood in one corner of the room and shot Hock through the heart. Dorle was arrested in the city by officers Barry and Quigley.
Daily Missouri Democrat
Saint Louis, Thursday Morning, January 19, 1860
THE HOMICIDE AT MANCHESTER - The first report of the killing of Mr. Michael Hoch, the brewer, at Manchester in the county, which exaggerated the affair into a cold-blooded murder, proves to have been erroneous and unjust. We have learned the particulars from witnesses who have been before the Grand Jury. It appears that the deceased was quietly sitting in the public room of a tavern kept by Herman Dorle. The landlord and his wife had been quarreling and Dorle threatened to shoot her. For this purpose he took up a gun from the corner of the room, but by the persuasion of a spectator, was induced to give up his intention.
He angrily threw down the weapon on a table beside of which he stood, and as the weapon struck, it went off, the contents lodging in the region of the stomach of Mr. Hoch. The wounded man fell to the floor from which he never rose again alive. Most of the witnesses regarded it as an unfortunate accident, and so far from murder, that they did not go to the trouble of arresting Dorle. Probably an indictment for manslaughter will be found.
Following are two articles concerning the death of Michael Hoch.
The articles were transcribed exactly as they appeared in the newspapers - including misspellings.
Daily Missouri Democrat
Saint Louis, Wednesday Morning, January 11, 1860
MURDER IN MANCHESTER - A man named Hammond Dorle, was committed to jail yesterday, on a charge of murder. It appears that on Monday night, Dorle had some difficulty with his wife and struck her several blows, she screamed so loudly as to attract the attention of her neighbors, among whom was Mr. Herman Hock, proprietor of the Manchester Brewry. Hock went into the house and threw himself between Dorle and his wife, and refused to allow the husband to again lay violent hands upon her. Enraged still more at this interference, Dorle seized a rifle that stood in one corner of the room and shot Hock through the heart. Dorle was arrested in the city by officers Barry and Quigley.
Daily Missouri Democrat
Saint Louis, Thursday Morning, January 19, 1860
THE HOMICIDE AT MANCHESTER - The first report of the killing of Mr. Michael Hoch, the brewer, at Manchester in the county, which exaggerated the affair into a cold-blooded murder, proves to have been erroneous and unjust. We have learned the particulars from witnesses who have been before the Grand Jury. It appears that the deceased was quietly sitting in the public room of a tavern kept by Herman Dorle. The landlord and his wife had been quarreling and Dorle threatened to shoot her. For this purpose he took up a gun from the corner of the room, but by the persuasion of a spectator, was induced to give up his intention.
He angrily threw down the weapon on a table beside of which he stood, and as the weapon struck, it went off, the contents lodging in the region of the stomach of Mr. Hoch. The wounded man fell to the floor from which he never rose again alive. Most of the witnesses regarded it as an unfortunate accident, and so far from murder, that they did not go to the trouble of arresting Dorle. Probably an indictment for manslaughter will be found.
Burial record from the church records.
Following are two articles concerning the death of Michael Hoch.
The articles were transcribed exactly as they appeared in the newspapers - including misspellings.
Daily Missouri Democrat
Saint Louis, Wednesday Morning, January 11, 1860
MURDER IN MANCHESTER - A man named Hammond Dorle, was committed to jail yesterday, on a charge of murder. It appears that on Monday night, Dorle had some difficulty with his wife and struck her several blows, she screamed so loudly as to attract the attention of her neighbors, among whom was Mr. Herman Hock, proprietor of the Manchester Brewry. Hock went into the house and threw himself between Dorle and his wife, and refused to allow the husband to again lay violent hands upon her. Enraged still more at this interference, Dorle seized a rifle that stood in one corner of the room and shot Hock through the heart. Dorle was arrested in the city by officers Barry and Quigley.
Daily Missouri Democrat
Saint Louis, Thursday Morning, January 19, 1860
THE HOMICIDE AT MANCHESTER - The first report of the killing of Mr. Michael Hoch, the brewer, at Manchester in the county, which exaggerated the affair into a cold-blooded murder, proves to have been erroneous and unjust. We have learned the particulars from witnesses who have been before the Grand Jury. It appears that the deceased was quietly sitting in the public room of a tavern kept by Herman Dorle. The landlord and his wife had been quarreling and Dorle threatened to shoot her. For this purpose he took up a gun from the corner of the room, but by the persuasion of a spectator, was induced to give up his intention.
He angrily threw down the weapon on a table beside of which he stood, and as the weapon struck, it went off, the contents lodging in the region of the stomach of Mr. Hoch. The wounded man fell to the floor from which he never rose again alive. Most of the witnesses regarded it as an unfortunate accident, and so far from murder, that they did not go to the trouble of arresting Dorle. Probably an indictment for manslaughter will be found.
Following are two articles concerning the death of Michael Hoch.
The articles were transcribed exactly as they appeared in the newspapers - including misspellings.
Daily Missouri Democrat
Saint Louis, Wednesday Morning, January 11, 1860
MURDER IN MANCHESTER - A man named Hammond Dorle, was committed to jail yesterday, on a charge of murder. It appears that on Monday night, Dorle had some difficulty with his wife and struck her several blows, she screamed so loudly as to attract the attention of her neighbors, among whom was Mr. Herman Hock, proprietor of the Manchester Brewry. Hock went into the house and threw himself between Dorle and his wife, and refused to allow the husband to again lay violent hands upon her. Enraged still more at this interference, Dorle seized a rifle that stood in one corner of the room and shot Hock through the heart. Dorle was arrested in the city by officers Barry and Quigley.
Daily Missouri Democrat
Saint Louis, Thursday Morning, January 19, 1860
THE HOMICIDE AT MANCHESTER - The first report of the killing of Mr. Michael Hoch, the brewer, at Manchester in the county, which exaggerated the affair into a cold-blooded murder, proves to have been erroneous and unjust. We have learned the particulars from witnesses who have been before the Grand Jury. It appears that the deceased was quietly sitting in the public room of a tavern kept by Herman Dorle. The landlord and his wife had been quarreling and Dorle threatened to shoot her. For this purpose he took up a gun from the corner of the room, but by the persuasion of a spectator, was induced to give up his intention.
He angrily threw down the weapon on a table beside of which he stood, and as the weapon struck, it went off, the contents lodging in the region of the stomach of Mr. Hoch. The wounded man fell to the floor from which he never rose again alive. Most of the witnesses regarded it as an unfortunate accident, and so far from murder, that they did not go to the trouble of arresting Dorle. Probably an indictment for manslaughter will be found.
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