Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-15
KILLS TWO AND
SELF IN STREET
CROWD LISTENING TO MUSIC
STARTLED BY A TRIPLE
TRAGEDY.
JEALOUS HUSBAND USES GUN
KILLS WIFE, HER MALE COMPAN-
ION AND THEN DIES A SUI
eide.
JEALOUS HUSBAND USES GUN

eide.
Eau Claire, Wis, Sept. 10.-Three
shots fired in quick succession in the
midst Of a crowd that lad gathered
at band concert on the east side
Saturday night cost the lives of two
men and one woman.
Two of the victims were murdered
in cold blood. The third was the MUIR
derer, who turned his revolver upon
himself as soon as he saw that his
first two shots had taken effect.
Bert Tandler did the shooting, and
the murdered couple were his wife.
who last June began suit for a di-
vorce, and Milton Johnson. a mill
hand of Shawtown, suburb.
All three died within ten minutes
of the firing of the first bullet.
Jealousy is supposed to have caused
the crimes and the man is said to
have made several threats against his
wife
He had complained before that
Johnson was showing his wife undue
attention, although the man and wife
had not lived together since last
March.
Had Threatened Wife.
Since last March, when she left her
husband, charging him with mistreat.
ment and threats to kill her, Mrs.
Tandler has been living at Shawtown.
where Johnson was employed in
mill. Her children lived there with
her. Her husband lived in Eau Claire.
where he had rooms at a North side
hotel.
Saturday afternoon Tandler entered
the office of the firm by which he was
employed He appeared depressed
and some of the other men employed
there rallied him on his apparent
"blueness."
One of his companions laughed at
him and told him not to worry over
his troubles. hut to go out and Jolly
the girls.
Went to His Room.
81 never do that" Tandler is said
to have answered. There's nothing
to it. I don't feel like it, anyway"
After few minutes further CONVEX
sation he said he guessed he would go
to his hotel and shave and clean up.
That was the last that was seen of
him by his friends before the triple
tragedy.
A few minutes after s o'clock Mil
ton Johnson and Mrs. Tandler were
seen by friends, walking along Eau
Claire street together, near the city
hall. Music flied the air and the
streets were thronged. They turned
rapidly into Gibs2n street, and when
in front of Char !eg' restaurant they
were oveFtaken by the woman's hus-
band.
Fired Without a Word.
Johnson turned as Tandler came
up, and the latter, without word,
drew a revolver and shot the man
through the heart.
johnson staggered to the middle of
the street. where he fell face down
ward, and at the same mOment Tan
d1er turned his weapon on his wife
and shot her through the neck.
Mr. Charles, the restaurant man,
who had rushed to the door at the
sound of the first shot, caught the
woman as she fell. Tandler only wait
ed to see that his shot had taken eff
feet, and then turned the revolver
upon himself, sending bullet through
his breast He died Immediately.
Stories Do Not Agree.
Statements about Bert Tandler, who
killed his divorced wife. Milton John
son and himself Saturday, do not
agree. The attorney for the late Mrs.
Tandler says she secured a divorce
two months ago, and that Tandler
had been trying to steal the children.
He says that Tandler had another
wife living at Cadott, and that about
three months ago he secured a di-
vorce from her. which was about
month before the murdered woman
secured her divorce.
The attorney for Tandler says that
the dead woman secured divorce
while Tandler was away from the
city, and that Tandler had secured
him to draw up papers and apply to
the court to have the divorce annull-
ed.
Milton Johnson appears to have been
a young man Of good character and
there was absolutely nothing wrong
in his association with the murdered
woman, whose reputation also was
l. scI,