The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-13
'0IIy TURNS FIEND.
..,.,s Her step-Daughter in a
Brutal Manner.
|,ry PUTS CRIME on A TRAMP

49, n, the Road Are Arrested
y" only Saved from Lynchins by
' n,.co,ers of Bloody Dress anu
.,r the Confession of the fr'sh'i"'
,s nv the Woman Who Comm'''e" ~
uo., shocking Details
o,ouln. Ills, Jan. 1S.-Chasing her
granddaughter from room 10
and firing bullet after bullet into
aooIrs form until at last the girl
"a ssnseless. Mrs. Annie Wollert
knleted a deliberately brutal crime
straugling the child to death Mrs
liar, had a fearful time with her
aim She gave the girl orders to do
housework Immediately after the .
,oot breakfast The little one had
- runished the night before for at
onting to stay away from home to
49, Mrs. Wollert's wrath. She re-
Hlod AZ the work, mainly because she
nted 10 learn her lessons before
ool time. Mrs. Wollert began by
xing her ears. The girl resented this
"A Kicked Mrs. Wollert in the legs.
Woman Becomes Fiend.
Me Wollert became a fiend. She
Nod Lizzie and drew her apron about
~ neck. Lizzie struggled, and in the
bt cot Mrs. Wollerts finger in her
buth This forced the step-mother to
bsen her grip. Lizzie thereupon
nped TO her feet and started up
airs 10 her own room. Mrs. Wollert
nj 10 her bed and drew from under
Il mattress an old revolver. She fol-
ned Lizzie, and the first shot tore
Throw along the girls head. Lizzie
len ran downstairs. The next shot
mt through the flesh of her forearm.
ke fell on her face as she reached the
Ting ROOM Mrs. Wollert then stood
Ter her and fired the last shot. send
the bullet straight through her body
bm the back.
said Tramp Did Ii.
|0Fnh a cunning which for eight hours
<ceived the village officials who be-
In an investigation when the death
tame known she told the story that
deed was done by a tramp. She
b screaming from the house. her own
nonths-old child in her arms. to give
J alarm that a tramp. enraged at the
! asal of the girl to supply him with
kakfast, had shot her down with
Eolver and had then choked her to
|hth. The woman said that she had
fself caught her baby from the era
J and taken refuge in a closet. find
) her step daughter dead when she
Sally came forth from her place OF
pcealment, the assassin in the mean
~ having made his escape.
Man Hunt Takes Place.
Yrs. Wollert gave a circumstantial
bcription of the man, whom she
blurred as a young fellow. well built,
an-shaven, except for a mustache,
PISSED as laborer. The woman's re-
-al received at first entire credence,
II served to rouse the community
~ pitch of fierce excitement. Within
hour after the crime was known
lrching parties were securing the
pntry in every direction for tramps.
rshal Alvin Dodd mounted a horse
carried the alarm to Carpenters
Pe' Dundee and to Darlington Cen
staying In the saddle for six hours.
Found Bloody Dress.
1picion did not attach to the wom-
until noon. when the bloody dress
had worn while killing the girl was
nd thrown by the side of an out
lding not far from the house. In
meantime four tramps had been
Pnded up Marshal Dodd having
yen one before him for two miles at
\point Of a revolver, while the others
ASpeen encountered by the posse sent
from Algonquin. The timely find
OF dress saved a lynching, for
ieeling OF the people was such that
lmp life whether its possessors were
/ lty or innocent of crime was not
thly valued.
Confesses to the Crime,
$50 o'clock Mrs. Wollert broke
under the close questioning of DR..
Foh and Detective LATE Benthuy-
or Crystal Lake, who had been
lnoneu early in the day by tele-
tpn' ana made a full confession.
'old her terrible story with cool
f. once the brief hysterical stage was
T. ana at no time showed a sign of
VS. Her narrative and an ac-
ff|pAn'ment of pathetic facts. concern
,he events Of the last sixteen hours
'"e girfs life made a chapter at
Fe criminal and tragic.
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