Ed Graves (d. 1895)

GRAVES, PIETZMEIER

Posted By: cheryl Locher moonen (email)
Date: 3/27/2020 at 07:38:28

Cascade Pioneer, published in Cascade, Iowa on Friday, April 5th, 1895

Killed an Officer

OTTUMWA, Ia. March 29 - Officer Ed Graves was shot through the heart and instantly killed Wednesday night by Fred Pietzmeier, a German coal miner. Graves had gone to the house of a coal digger to stop a family row. The murderer was taken to the penitentiary at Fort Madison to avoid lynching.