In 1881, Emanuel Ettinger died in the county jail by his own hand. In October of that year, local newspapers reported that he was sick with malarial fever but seemed to be improving. Days later, he was dead. His death was first reported as the result of typhoid fever. The Harrisburg Daily Independent called him the “most depraved and bloodthirsty of the number.” The Harrisburg Telegraph said the “gallows were cheated by death.” Emanuel Ettinger was buried in the garden of his brother, James, in Adams Township. A month later, however, in late November 1881, county officials exhumed his body to test it for poison. It tested positive; he had poisoned himself in October to avoid a December execution.
Jonathan Moyer was executed in Middleburg on March 24, 1882. The state board of pardons had refused to offer him a rehearing a week earlier. On the day before his death, he told reporters, “I am glad my time has come. I will now rather die than go to the penitentiary for life.” He confessed to a clergyman immediately before his death and asked that the details not be released until his brother was also executed. The confession implicated Uriah in the murders. On the gallows platform, he proclaimed, “I have done wrong and am glad to leave this troubled world. We killed the Kintzlers and three of us buried their bodies.” On the day he died, three other men were executed across the state of Pennsylvania.
In October 1882, the state board of pardons refused to interfere with the death sentence for Uriah Moyer. Five months later, Uriah Moyer was put to death by hanging on March 7, 1883, before a crowd of between two and three hundred people. In the month before the execution, the Snyder County sheriff reported that Moyer was consumed by his impending death. The Lewisburg Chronicle said “it is ever constant with him, the last thing when he sinks to rest upon his prison couch and the first thing when he awakes in his cell in the morning–turn where he will, he sees in his imagination the scaffold and seems to realize the dead performances in which he is to be the unwilling principal actor.”The Times of Philadelphia reported that Middleburg took on a “holiday appearance” for the execution, with most people seated in stands that resembled a baseball game. Before his death, he proclaimed in German that he had committed the murders with Emanuel Ettinger, and that his brother, Jonathan, was involved only in the subsequent robbery and arson. He also cleared his brother, Joseph, of any involvement. At the time of his death, Moyer was forty-four years old. The Harrisburg Telegraph reported that he “died without a struggle in about seven minutes.” It had been five years and three months since the murders.
Israel Erb‘s death sentence was commuted in April 1883. He had warned anyone who would listen that if he was to be executed, he would divulge enough new information to hang dozens of other people. He was sentenced instead to life in prison. In June 1883, he was transferred from Middleburg to Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia. He died in that prison on May 2, 1891, at the age of 74.
Thirteen years and six months after the death of John and Gretchen Kintzler, the last of the four men convicted for their murder was also dead.