The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-07-19

LifeIess Bodies of Miss AIme Bienne,
mann and Willie BurWeiI are
Taken from The HarbOr.
DEATH sHRoUDED IN MYSTERY
Young People Had Been Seen Together or
Sunday Night Sad Death Causes
Profound Sensation.

have offered another mystery for solu-
ton, for shortly after o'clock Mon
day evening the Kenosha life saving
crew removed from the waters of the
harbor just east Of the docks OF
the Kenosha Lumber Company
the 1ifeless remains of Miss Alma
Biennemann and William Burwe1l.
The finding of the bodies caused great
excitement and within few minutes
after the lifeless remains of the two
young people had been laid on the
cold, bare floor of the boat house
station a great crowd of people had
! gathered to learn the story of the find
| ing of the remains and whatever there
was to be known of their tragic death.
But the romance or sorrow of the
death of the young people seems to
have been hidden from mortal view
when the muddy waters Of the harbor
closed over them and carried them to
| their death on the beach below For
many hours their bodies were hidden
in the grave that fate had selected for
| them and it was by the merest accident
| that the bodies we're recovered. Early
Monday morning Capt. Cameron was
walking along the beach near the life
saving station when he noticed a
Yachting cap and a ladies' hat floating
near the beach. He pulled them out
and took them to the station and all
day he expected to hear that some one
was missing. Toward nightfall, when
he had received no report, he decided
| to make little search of the basin and
the graphing hooks were taken out by
the crew and after ten minutes work
the body of young Burwe11 was raised
to the surface of the water. Within a
few feet of it was found the body. of
Miss Biennemann. They were care
fully placed in a boat and the barge of
death was moored near the station and
! the bodies laid out side by side IN the
boat house.
The news of the finding of the
bodies was at once communicated to
the police and Justice John C. Slater
empane1ed a jury and went to the sta
ton to view the remains. In the
meantime the news spread and the
great crowd of curious people gather
ed at the station to get a glimpse OF
the bodies. So great was the crowd
that it was necessary to station the
members of the crew at the doors Of
the improvised morgue to keep the
people from crowding in and disturb
ing the jury in its work.
Late in the evening the remains OF
the unfortunate young people were
removed to the coroner's norgue.
4 The accident that resulted in the sad
and tragic death of the young people is
shrouded in mystery, and from all that
can be learned the facts connected
with the death of the couple will
never be known. They were seen to-
gether last Sunday evening but after
this no trace of them was discovered
until the bodies were taken from the
water OF the harbor.
Miss Bieneuann was employed Attic
hosiery works butg she had made a
habit of stopping with her relatives in
different parts of the city ands her
family thought nothing of the fact5t that
she did not return to her home and the
| first intelligence of her sad fate was
learned when the officers broke the
news of the finding of her body BY the
life saw, IS.
/ Young Burwe11 was son of Mrs.
Ada L. S1ocum, but his mother had
been away from the city for some time
and the boy had been making his home
with his stepfafher. The boy had
been out of work for several weeks
and much of his time had been spent
aboard the little yachts 9insthe harbor.
When hewas out late at night he had
always sept aboard of one of the
yachts Only day or SO ago Burwe1l
i announced to his uncle that he had de-
cided to sail on the yacht Argo for a
cruise about the lakes.
It is supposed that the accident
which resulted in the death of the
young people occurred between eight
and nine O'Clock Sunday evening The
watch OF Burwe11, which was found In
his pocket, showed that it had stopped
at $50, and it is thought that the
mechanism was stopped by the action
/ of the water.
Miss Biennemann and Burwel1 had
not been going together much, but late
Sunday afternoon friend and Bur
well walked up to the home of Mrs
G.. H. Parker, on Ashland avenue, and
Burwen made an appointment to cal
at the house at seven O'Clock. They
were seen together later in the even
, ing, but no one saw them go toward
the lake. During the day the Captain
at the station found boat floating
about with only one oar in it, andit is
thought possible that the young PEG
pie had gone out in the boat and ha6
fallen into the water from the boat
The other, and what seems to be a
mc-e plausible theory is, that the
} young man and woman met their
death while attempting to get aboard
the schooner yacht Argo. Near the
place where the bodies. were found was
found a plank, and it is thought that
/ younor Burwen attempted to assist the