Cackley Pleads Guilty to Fenstenmaker Murder at Farmington

CACKLEY, FENSTENMAKER

Posted By: Volunteer - Cathy Joynt Labath
Date: 10/1/2006 at 08:10:27

Emmetsburg Democrat; Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, IA; Wednesday, April 13, 1904.

HAPPENINGS IN IOWA.

CACKLEY PLEADS GUILTY

Charles Cackley, murderer of Constable Reuben Fenstenmaker in 1866 at Farmington, who was arrested after thirty-six years, last week entered a plea of guilty at Keokuk and was sentenced to ten years in prison at Fort Madison. During the thirty-six years following the murder, Cackley led an honest, upright life in a Wood camp in southern Missouri. He married and reared a family, who knew nothing of the indictment hanging over him. His whereabouts was discovered through an application for a pension. He is sixy-eight years old.