The Cairo Daily Bulletin

ASSASSINATION
OF JUDGE
LINDENBOWER.
A COLD-BLOODED MURDER.
GREAT EXCITEMENT IN SPRINGFIELD.
THE ASSASSIN THREATENED WITH LYNCHING—OTHER PARTICULARS.

[From the St. Louis Republican.]

From a gentleman who has arrived in the city from Springfield, we learned some particulars attending the assassination of Judge Lindenbower. The murder appears to have been a most foul and cold-blooded one. The cause which led to the bloody deed had its origin in the fact of Lindenbower having bought at sheriff's sale Cannefox's land. This occurred during the close of the war while Cannefox was South. Cannefox has brought suit to recover his land, and of course very amicable feelings have not existed between the parties. On the day of the murder Lindenbower was standing in the wholesale department of the Humboldt saloon, in conversation with Mr. Wm. Henslee. Whilst thus engaged, Cannefox entered and asked the judge, "How about that land?" The judge replied that he would see him presently. Cannefox passed on into the bar and took a glass of whiskey, and then returned, and approaching Lindenbower with pistol in hand, said "By G-d, you have lived long enough," and commenced firing. Three shots were fired, all of which took effect, and each of which the physician pronounced mortal. The judge expired instantly. After the shooting Cannefox ran out of the saloon into Messrs. Young & Denton's livery stable adjoining the saloon, and Mr. Young asked, "Who did all that shooting?" Cannefox replied, "By G-d, I did that shooting." He was promptly arrested by the police, and there were strong demonstrations made towards lynching him. The affair threw the city into a wild excitement. Judge Lindenbower was a prominent lawyer, having worn the judicial ermine of that circuit, and was also a member of the old state convention of 1861, having been elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Hendrick. He was about thirty-five years of age, and leaves a young family, who are well provided for, as we understand that in addition to valuable property, he leaves a life policy for nineteen thousand dollars.

Mr. Cannefox is a man of about fifty years, a farmer, living some five miles from town, and of late years has been given to dissipation. He has a family.