The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-25
Brueggemann Knew
His Grandmother
At Once.
LEOMINSTER MYSTERY CLEARED.
Dead Woman Was Mrs.
Agnes Gadde of
This City.

The body of the Leominster suicide
was positively identified at the under
taking rooms of Charles F. Richard
son in that town, yesterday, as Mrs.
Agnes Gadde, "A years old, and a resi-
dent of Vernon street, this city.
Early yesterday morning Margaret
Gauch. SAT Southbridge street, Mrs
Gaddes grandson's fiancee, read the
description of the mysterious woman
whose identity had baffled the town
authorities at Leominster.
She went at once to Rawson & Simp-
sons, where Frank Rrueggemann. SON
in-law Of the missing woman, and his
son Walter are employed as cigar
makers Miss Gauch and Walter
Brueggemann started for Leominster.
At Richardson's undertaking rooms
in Leominster Brueggemann and Miss
Gauch were obliged to wait several
hours before thew could see the body.
as the proprietor was assisting his fell
low-townslnen in hunting for evidence
of the .woman's appearance. in town.
Upon seeing the body, Brueggemann
exclaimed: Its my grandmother, I
know her even in death"
Mrs. Elizabeth Brueggemann was
Erief-stricken when the Identification
was positive. To O. Spy man last night,
her husband said: Il am positive that
it is my mother-in-law There is not
the slightest possibility of the body
being that of any one else. My son and
Miss Gauch recognized her beyond
chance Of doubt"
Walter Brueggemann said: MY
grandmother left home Tuesday. say
ing that she was going to Quinapoxet
to visit friends with whom she had
visited a few days in the summer for
he
mother when she left, and said that if
she did not return Friday or Saturday,
she would write. We heard nothing
from her until we read yesterdays pa
pos which Miss Gauch had brought"
Miss Gauch was seen last night, and
the nervous strain to which she had
been subjected was such as to make
her reticent, but later she broke down
and gave her story of Mrs Gadde's
life in this city She said she seemed
in good spirits when she left Tuesday.
Mrs. Brueggem4nn's husband told The
Spy man that it had been the custom IN
former years TO allow one of his child
rem to accompany Mrs. Gadde when she
went into the country Tuesday Mrs.
Gadde wanted 10 take her daughters
5-year-old son, but Mr.. Brueggemann
would not permit his son TO go, as the
boy haG returned from q previous trip
into the country with his grandmother,
suffering from severe cold.
Mr.. Brueggemann did not think that
the absence of his son had any effect
upon Mrs. GGdde's endin,. He could
give no reason why his mother-in-law
could have any desire TO end her life by
suicide
Mrs Gadde was born in Germany.
and during her II years in this country
ha1 acquired no knowledge of English.
The fact that Mrs. Gadde could not con-
verse, except with German residents.
may have caused a misunderstanding
with conductors on railroad and street
cars, which resulted in her being carried
10 Fitchburg.
MEDICAL Examiner w II. Thompson
of Fitchburg and DR.. W. F. Sawyer Of
that city. with DR.. A F. Pierce If
Leominster, performed an autopsy on
the body al the undertaking rooms, and
declared death TO have been caus I'd by
drinking some kind of acid. Near the
spot where Mrs. Gadde was found in an
unconscious condition, Thursday morn
ing, a tumbler, said to have contained
some kind of acid, was picked up. Mr..
Brueggemann did not believe that death
c." have resulted from suicide.
When she left home Tuesday, she had
between s12 and s14, and when the body
was found there was but little money
left.
Walter Brueggemann talked with
Spy man later last night and said that
his grandmother probably committed
suicide. He said that she was suffering
from a mental strain at the time, and
owing to Ter age, sought death as re-
lief
w. F. Bachelor Of Sessions & Sons,
undertskers, will go to Leominster this
morning and the body will be brought
to this city. Funeral services will be
held at Vernon street, tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock. Rev. George S.
Dodge. pastor Of Emmanuel church, will
conduct the services.