Hooked on History: Murder accusation haunted Holmes County witch doctor

Solomon Hochstetler, a Holmes County witch doctor, lived under the suspicion that he was a baby killer for much of his life.

Everyone — including his own family — believed that he had murdered his niece Susan while the family was living in Somerset County, Pa. That suspicion, along with Solomon's heavy drinking, kept him out of the Amish church for many years.

The murder took place on March 4, 1810.

That evening, Solomon's brother John went to a sugar camp on John's farm to work, according to the book Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler, by Harvey Hostetler, published in 1912.

About a half an hour later, John was joined there by his wife, Magdalena, and his sister-in-law, Barbara Lehman. The women left his infant daughter, Susan, asleep in her cradle at the family home. 

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