There are many stories about the criminal case.
Thereafter, the Tyrolean dealer Thomas was known throughout the Hochwald at that time. Before he set off from the Nahe region to the Kurtrier region in the cold and snowy January 1741 and wanted to visit markets in Züsch and Malborn, he stopped in Abentheuer at David Roth's inn, which was once in the Hujetsmühle directly on today's Landesstrasse 165 gave. There, according to tradition, the Tyrolean shopkeeper was seen counting money. He shared his bed in a straw bed with a servant, whose name is given in a treatise as Niklas von Hoppstädten.
On January 19th, Thomas left his quarters in Abentheuer. But he never made it to the villages in the high forest that were waiting for his arrival. A search party then made the gruesome discovery at the site of today's Tirolerstein. There the dead dealer lay in a pool of blood.
The murdered man's money had disappeared, only a few personal items were found in his clothes. The dealer was buried on February 23, 1741 in the Birkenfeld cemetery. His death went unpunished. The servant, who had spent the night with Thomas in Adventure, was strongly suspected of the act.
A few days after the Tyrolean had disappeared in an inn, he had noticed that he was carrying an unusually large amount of money for his circumstances. But there was no evidence of the murder.
The memory of the murder lived on afterwards. The Tirolerstein was first mentioned in writing in 1812.