The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-02-09
STILL A MYSTERY.
CORONER'S INQUEST THROWS NO
LIGHT ON FRITSCHE'S DEATH.
COOK SAYS HE SAW A sCUFFLE
In Front of Frank Tuerk's Saloon on the
Evening of the Old Germans Death
Evidence Produces Suspicion But no
Arrests Have Been Made.

The mystery surrounding the death
of Albert Fritsche, which occurred
under very peculiar circumstances in a
cell at the county Jail Sunday afternoon
still remains unsOlved and from present
indications it will De some time before
the mystery is cleared up.
The cOroner's jury, consisting of
James Stebbins, Mat Stahl, Ben Stahl,
Horace Chaffee, Jacob Ludwig and
Henry Halberstadt, spent three hours
Monday afternoon in an attempt to
unravel the mystery, but without
reaching anything like definite con-
clusiOn.
All sorts of witnesses were examined.
The men who were with him during the
evening, those who were with him
when he left or was elected from the
saloon, the ones who carried him to jail
and lastly the doctors who made the
post norton examination, but the
testimony of these only made the
tangled mass of evidence more mixed
and carried the case farther from
settlement and after three hours of
useless questions the jury adjourned 10
continue the inquest at o'clock today.
The evidence of officer Cook was
perhaps the most important of any
taken during the inquest. Cook said
about 11:3O o'clock Saturday night he
looked down Main street and saw what
appeared to be scuffle in front Of
Frank Tuerk's saloon. When he ar
rived at the spot he saw Fritsche lying
on the ground in an unconscious cOndi-
ton near the Isermann doorway and
number of men standing over him.
TheOfficer was unable to tell who the
man was engaged in the scuf1e and he
had taken Fritsche to jail on charge
of intoXicatiOn.
John Binninger, ROst and Stahl, the
men who were in the saloon at the time
Fritsche was ordered out, were placed
on the stand, but none of them threw
any light on the way in which the
German received the wounds resulting
in his death.
The stories told by several of these
men were incOheTent and disconnected
and none of them made any admission
of any criminal knowledge. District
Attorney Buckmaster said last night in
regard to the case: We are certain
that the man died from the result of
blow but at this time we cannot say
when or by whom that blow was
struck" The attorney further init"
mated that some evidence in regard to
the way in which the man left the
saloon has been withheld, and that the
men are simply shielding each other,
and arranging their testimony in such
a manner as to remove all idea of the
true manner in which Fritsche was in
jured.
The District Attorney and Chief of
Police are reported to hold several
men under suspicion. The entire
police force are working on the case,
and the men suspicioned are being
closely watched and it is hardly
thought that they can escape if the
coroner's jury brings a verdict which
would justify an arrest.
The man Gauge, who was thrOught to
be connected with the case, and who
left the city Immediately after the
death of Fritsche, has not yet reap.
peared and all efforts to locate him
have been fruitless.
The body of Fritsche has not as yet
been buried, but the old German will
probably be laid to rest in the POtter's
field tomorrow.