The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-07
THE DEED OF A MADMAN.
TERRIBLE euTcHERY OF A YOUNG
GERMAN GIRL.
Her step Father the Perpetrstor - He
Hacks and Gashes His Victim with
Fiendish Energy The Girls Desperate
Fight for Life-Attempted Suicide.

Fight for Life Attempted Suicide.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May IA fendish
murder was committed in a little house on
Garden street early Wednesday morning.
The Viz tim was Lizzie Wolf, a light-hearted
German girl, barely turned Is, and her step
father George kades a short-statured man,
with no fixed occupation, the perpetrator.
Wednesday Right Mrs kades slept with her
daughter, her husband occupying bed
room in the rear portion of the house At
10 minutes after q Mrs kades arose and
went out after milk, telling Lizzie to get up
and prepare breakfast No sooner had she
left the house than kades began his devilish
work
How be first assaulted Lizzie will not be
known until confession is wrung from
him Rising from his bed he passed from
his room through the front room and into
the apartment where the girl lay. There
the struggle commenced, ami the CHASTITY
blood marks alone tell the tale. kades was
armed with an ordinary table-knife, ground
down TO a fine point and possessing razor
like fineness. He grasped the girl as she lay
in bed and attempted to kill her there.
Strong and 1.-the in limb. she resisted, only
to be dragged from her couch, the cruel
knife keeping up a continual slashing at her
throat This point was the murderer's aim,
as the terrible gashes show.
As Lizzie was pulled or leaped from the
bed her life blood gushed out in perfect
streams, covering kades with the crimson
fluid. Still trying 10 escape. she ran
through the front room into the sitting
room, where she fell, the knife keeping up
its relentless hacking al her defenseless
form In the room Just beyond the door
way the worst OF the tragedy was enacted,
and the pools Of blood covering the floor
were grim reminders OF the scene Escaping
at last from her fathers hands, the poor
girl, now neatly dead, dragged herself to
the front door, and opening it, with super
human effort, sped out into the yard,
through wicker gate and into
the yard of the house situated in front OF
theirs Here on the grass, with bloo1 gush-
ing from her cuts she fell on her hands
and knees dying, Just as her mother came
through the gate with pail Of milk in her
hand. Mrs Nades dropped beside her child,
just as the Iatter's limbs gave way and she
pitched forward corpse.
The murdered girl after escaping from
her father ran distance of fully seventy
five feet, opening one door and gate, he
fore she fell The girl was mutilated in q
horrible manner Under the right
eye was cash an inch long
and fully As deep The throat gaped
open for more than an an inch from cut
which commenced under the left ear and ex
tended almost to the right This cut was SC
deep that, looking into it, all the interior
organs OF the neck as far back as the center
could be seen. Four other cuts not SO deeI
gave the neck frayed appearance. Behine
the left ear was a cut equally as deep a:
that in the throat and exposing the skull
Her arms from the elbows down were lit
orally sliced TO pieces where she had made
frantic efforts TO grasp the knife. One
thumb was nearly severed from the hand
kades was immediately arrested. On be-
ing taken tn the police station he said: III
was Mi the woman's fault To other ques
lions ne shook his head and said: Il dom
know" After being taken to the oentra
station kades attempted to strangle himself
with handkerchief, and would have sue
eeeded bat for the interference of the police
The murderer was re emily arrested for in
sanity, but the probate judge discharged
him II is believed that he is insane now