Daily globe., 1879-04-03
THE W1ECKERLE WRATH.

Ex-senator Ramsey Tries to Put 1t Down
with Some Solid Swearing-Mrs. Waeck-
cries Apparent Honesty.
The Waeckerle case, of which so much has
been said, took another airing yesterday. Mrs.
Waeckerle, the claimant for the $1,000 insu-
rance on her husbands life or death, was in the
city looking up her interests. Among other
affidavits procured by her was one from
GOVERNOR ALEXANDER RAMSEY.
The deposition was taken before Judge James
Il. OBrien, and under commission from
the circuit court of Caddo parish, La, where
this wonderful case ia pending. Coy. Ramseys
deposition to the interrogatories is very brief,
filling only couple of pages of legal cap pa
per. He states that he has known VIM. Waeck-
erie, the husband of the plaintiff in the suit,
since 1854 or thereabouts. About that time he
became acquainted with him in Carver, Carver
county of this State. The Governor visited
this named place member of a land COM
pany to buy land. He negotiated the purchase
of eighty acres from Waeckerle, the half of 100
acres upon which he, VIM. Waeckerle and wife,
the present claimant, resided. At that time he
became acquainted with both the husband and
wife.
Again, the Governor saw Waeckerle to know
him in 1862. when he was serving as soldier in
the Ninth Minnesota volunteers; and this ac-
quaintance was renewed in 1864 or thereabouts,
after Waeckerle was mustered out of the army.
His (Gov. Ramsey's) opportunities for becnm-
ing famil ar with the features and appearance
of Wm. Waeckerle are declared to have been
good, and he further AYERS that he was we'll
acquainted with his face and general appear
ance.
Afiant further declares he has never met or
seen to his knowledge, the man who now claims
to be Vim. Waeckerle. But AYERS that the photo
graph accompanying and on exhibit of the
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VIM. Waeckerle, the one he knew and the hus-
band of Welburger Waeckerle Vim. Waeckerle
is described by Gov. Ramsey as common
faced, bard-working, stolid German laborer;
while the photograph exhibited and purporting
to be VIM. Waeckerle, the man who claims
to be the husband Of Mrs. Waeckerle, shows
the countenance of man more or less, with
more in the majority, acquainted with the
world, begotten of extended intercourse with
mankind. This is about the gist of the afi-
davit as made, and dispatched to Caddo parish
yesterday.
MRS. wAEcKERIE.
The woman at the bottom of this
huge difficulty was, has been said, in
the city yesterday. To see her one cam
not help be impressed with her earnest honesty.
She looks too unlike person either able to
concoct a scheme of such magnitude, or as an
instrument to assist in it. to even awaken the
suspicion that she is not honest in her earne St
ness.
She is plain German woman, ofsallow COM
plexion, high cheek bones and angular features,
apparently about 40 to As years of age. Small
and iwiry, she seems to have vigor enough to
fight the affair to termination, and, if unsyc-
cessful, she will not droop while her labor
hardened hands last her for work.
When addressed about her trouble-she takes
it as such--she becomes voluble in half intel
igible German and English.
She claims and protests that 'the man" is
not her husband as he represents himself to
be. Her husband had two brothers, yet she
does not state that ''the man" is either one of
them. It's enough for her to know that the
man who claims to be her husband, is not her
husband, and as to this she is very emphatic in
her knowledge. She appreciates the big fight
she has on her hands, but is nerved up to the
peculiar conditions and immensity of the af-
fair