The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-07-09
A MURDER MOST FOUL
AUGUST Hi GENDORF KILLS. HIS
WIFE BRUTALLY
HACKED UP WITH A coRNKN1FE
GhastIY Scene About the Hilgendor
Place. The Piend who Committed the
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Onesof the most and olltra-
geous murders OF rloTe properly speak
ing, buteheries ever took place.
in Karos ia eoun 81 ceurred 81 saturday
afte1o n now assfhe Peter,
LipugIt farm, about laree miles south !:
westsaf this eity gnst Hi gendorf
brutalK tore off 81: his wife
and tucked a Ia Shed 51e Will :s:a
corn3cattef to d degree almost beyond.
human this took place lin.
the mix heuse on be- Hi gend off farm.
August Hilgendoff is a. typieall: Ger
manf6f about So or 81 years of age:
Last saturday morning he told his
family=thatlhe would come to Kenosha
and see the Fourth Of July show and
would be back by noon SO that the two
growIiup sons, who lived with the old
folkson the farm; could come to town
in the afternoon to see the rest OF the
Fhe-eld- Eaafas444 Ffestat-ia-a4l-the-
forenoon here and filed up with bad
whiskey. He did not show up at home
until about o'clock p. N. When he
got home the boys had left for town
and there was no one left there but
Mrs. Hilgendorf who was busy skim
ming milk in the milk house, about
seventy-fve feet back of the house.
Those who saw the home coming Of
the old man say that words followed
his appearance, and they believe that
the quarrel. CONCERNED the condition in
which Hilgendorf was. Mrs. Hilgen-
dorf was known to be bitterly opposed
to the old mans drinking to intOxica-
ton. The story of Hilgendorf is, that
they had some trouble Owe, some prop
erty ] which Mrs. }Hilgend6rf was ina
some way keeping from her husband.
No one knows to a certainty what was
said, except HilgendOrf, and be has
been so inclined to tell varying yarns
about the affair that nothing that he
saws can be relied upon. All that pe0-
pie outside of theIafair can say is that
Mrs. Hilgendorf remained at the milk
house and thatIHilgendOrf went to the
woodshed, andk securing. a, eornknife,
went back to the milk ORseDand
closed the door. mo- ul11- e. R9 2 =.
Again all thatEcaH be told of the oe-5
currences within:that milk-hOuse can
only. be told by the Ihloody and CHASTITY
evidences of the butchery left behind.
Hilgendorf left the milk house and
wandered aimlessly about fireplace, no
one paying any: attention to him. No
one noticed that Mrs. Hilgend6rf did
not leave the milk house, t,~~, 49,
Bernard Hill gendoff returned at about
6-uectuck did nUticH his father
wandering about, but changed his
clothes and proceeded to lock- after the
chores. eWhile,ssabOur 7the chores he
went to the milkEhOuse. There when
he had opened the door the awful
deeds results..laid before him. He dis
tinguished the form of his mother,
stripped of it's clothing, filed with
gashes and widely gaping wounds, and.
covered all over with clotted blood 1t
was worse than the most dreadful
dream ones brain could cOnjure up.
Evidences of the fearful struggle for
life were plain on all sides. Walls were
despatched with blood5 "a barrel against
which the dead form before him had
evidently fallen to its final rest, showed
huge bloteh cfIblood, a large basket
of eggs was partially tipped over and
several of the eggs were mingled in the
enormous blood clots on the floor,
while the bloodyNcornknife, filed with
clots and human hair. laid at the feet
of the woman.
The sight which met that boys eyes
simply beggars description. The. con-
dition of the mothers body was such
as to stamp the perpetrator of the deed
something worse than a tiend. One
cannot cenceigeI %. ia fend's showing
mercy That monterey was shown in
this awful affray.is::more than apparent.
Mrs. Hilgendor's lite was literally cut
out of her in a small, square room
where escape was an impOssibility.
-Four great gaping. holes were cut in
the meek j Long slashes ran down the
breast, while on the top of the head
and at the right side appeared long
hole in the scalp. Below this the skull
had been crushed in. w@ ~
Sickened and frightened almost out
of his reason, young Hilgendorf sank
out of the place almost in swoOn. He
could not realize what he had seen.
His first impulse wasct9 run andlhe.
obeyed it. Whittier he was going he
knew not. He was trying to escape
the scenes which were so photographed
on his brain that they haunted him like
a huge specter of despair. The great
picture of prosperity and peace in the
growing fields about him, left no i'm
print, and served to sootheHHething of
his horror. Whence he was going he