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The Hoyt-Wallis Murder Mystery in Herkimer County
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Warren township in the southern portion of Herkimer County has been the scene of more than one gruesome event.
In January 1885, locals reeled in horror when disgruntled wife Roxalana Druse shot her husband and dismembered his corpse to incinerate it in a farm house stove. Her trial and hanging was followed up in May of 1901 with two murders in yet another farm house kitchen.
John C. Wallis had allowed his exwife Arvilla to return home, one year after running off with hired farm hand Ben Hoyt...