Aug 17, 1876  Chaska Valley Herald

  Judge Sargent's court was engaged last Monday in the trial of Wm. Bauermeister for assaulting
and beating John Spearman, both of Chanhassen. After hearing the evidence the justice said a very
aggravated assault and fined the defendant forty dollars and costs, amounting to fifty three dollars.
  The defendant appealed to the district court, but we are inclined to think Mr. Bauermeister will
pay up before the district court meets.

March 3, 1905  Shakopee Tribune

  The Spearman house on the hill is being demolished by it's owner, Alex Schaefer, to make room
for a handsome new dwelling which he will erect this summer. The location is a fine one and with
the improvements that Mr. Schaefer will make on the property will be regarded as one of the
finest residence sites in the city. The building undergoing demolition is the same in which the
frightful murder of a family of three persons took place twelve years ago this winter, the
perpetrators of the crime escaping all detection. The place is one of gruesome memories and the
townspeople will be glad to learn of it's displacement by the fine residence Mr. Schaefer will
construct.




























April 12, 1912  Shakopee Tribune

  Twenty-two years ago this city was the scene of the most brutal triple murders in the history of
crime, the shooting and killing of an aged couple, the Spearman's and their 10 year old grandson
in their home which then stood where Alex Scharfer's residence now is. The theory is that they
were murdered about midnight of a Saturday night and the bodies were not found until the
following Wednesday when the distressed lowing of a cow, nearly starved, brought neighbors
over to investigate.
  Mr. Spearman was in Mpls. that day, returning with $400 in money, which for the first time in
his life he deposited in the First National bank before the close of the day. The little boy came
down town about 7 o'clock and bought bread at the bakery, saying they had company for dinner.
The Tribune editor returning from a visit at the Wilder home, heard a revolver shot as he passed
about from the Spearman house and as he entered the hotel after walking down the rest of the
way, heard a rig going over the bridge. The evidence of many was taken at the coroner's inquest,
but there was nothing to hold the suspects at that time, members, notably the son William and the
son-in-law Remington, who at the time worked in a livery stable in Mpls. The old man had been
shot in the back of the head as he sat at the kitchen stove, while the old lady was upstairs making
a shakedown bed for the little boy whose bed was to be given over to the visitors. the wife was
shot at as she ran downstairs and also in the bedroom and finally killed as she ran behind the
sitting room stove. Then the fiends went upstairs and shot the little boy who tried to hide under
the covers of his bed on the floor. Then the house was ransacked, but the money was not there.
  Shortly after the Spearman murder a man was shot near Fargo, N.D. in precisely the same
manner, the bullet entering the base of the brain at the occipital bone and Remington was caught
and charged with the murder. When he was arrested, he said, "There was three of us in it, but I
didn't do the shooting", and this was explained that he did not know at that time which crime he
was arrested for, the Shakopee or Fargo crime. He was sentenced to the penitentiary at Bismark,
N.D. and is now about to be released by a pardon.
  The county attorney, W.N. Southworth and the Sheriff, Charles M. Kopp have been keeping
track of the Remington clue to the Shakopee crime and Mr. Southworth left very suddenly,
Wednesday for North Dakota on business. Whether this business is of a private nature or whether
he has gone to Bismark with requisition papers to arrest Remington as he steps out of the North
Dakota prison and bring him here to stand trial for the Spearman murder is conjecture on  the part
of the Tribune.
  We feel confident that there is something in the air and that this blotch upon the fair name of the
city will be wiped out by the work of our two Scott County officials, Sheriff Kopp and Attorney
W.N. Southworth.               

Feb 26, 1891  Scott Co. Argus

  Interest has been revived in the Spearman murder case by the capture of Joe Remington who
was suspected of murdering a grain buyer at Arthur, N.D., on Feb 11th. Remington has
confessed. Remington and Will Spearman worked for some months at the same livery in Mpls.
and were great chums.