The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-03-30
DOES NOT WANT 70 HANG
A TEAR CAME TO AUGUST MuEL,
LER's EYE AT SUGGESTION.
is TAKEN THROUGH NORFOLK
Man Whose Revolver Belehed Bullets
at His wife, Father.in.law and Moth.
ry He Fired at Them.

er.in.law Tells The News He is Sor
ry He Fired at Them.
from Fridays Dallvl
When the noon train over the Nj. n
O. railroad drew into Norfolk at IL
O'Clock this morning, there sat In one
of the seats of the last passenger coach
a dark skinned man, hidden down un.
der heavy fur overcoat. over his
eyes was drawn shabby black cap
which left protruding around his ears
Il fringe of black, thick, curly hair. A
black moustache covered his mouth
which was closely and firmly set. His
hands rested close together down in
his lap and pair of glittering steel
bracelets wound around them both in
an uncanny sort of way. The two
hands were big and rough and red
and the finger nails were all torn and
worn out of shape. Beneath the heavy
fur coat the mans legs were covered
with thin, blue and white striped over
als.
This passenger was no other than
August H. Mueller, who left tragedy
in the path of his bullet-spitting 49,
calibre revolver at the home of his
father.in-aw, Frederick Hohneke, In
Stanton county, and whose trigger fin
ger pumped lead ball into the breast
of his child-wife. three bullets into his
father.in-law and another one into the
hands of his mother.in-law, which shat
tered her fingers.
The prisoner was being taken from
Pender, where he was captured to
Stanton. where he goes to await trial
for the crime which he committed
Accompanying him was Sheriff Steck-
er of Stanton county, who used the
telephone wires to excellent advant-
age and pursued the wretch into with
in little distance of Pender, where
he was captured.
Mueller had a couple OF hours to
wait at Norfolk Junction and he was
interviewed by The News.
Not Takative at First.
The sheriff introduced the News rep.
resentative to his prospective candi-
date for ropes moose, and the prs-
oner ignored the introduction.
llo" wv you wv, hi' NuNiiNi, ""o
forced upon him, and he was almost
forced to stretch out one of his hand.
cuffed palms. Then Mueller lapsed
back into a comatose condition, pre-
pared to maintain silence. But an in
stant later his eyes were lifted up
dull blue eyes-to glance at the news
paper headline which was thrust be-
Gov To 20 10 Cti hun a a
spite his long chase across the coun.
try after his triple shooting, and he
wanted to see what the newspapers
had to say about him.
He read the top head, Brute is Cap
tured," with some interest and started
to follow down the column to get the
meat of the story.
THAT paper says you went over to
the house and opened fire; is that
right, Mr.. Mueller?" was asked.
mo" he mumbled.
Didn't you shoot first?"
mo" he grunted again.
"How did it start them"
And then the man charged with
crime opened up with words. After
| tndJ IL came easily.
Wanted to Make Up.
81 just went over to the farm to
make up" he whined. 81 met the old
man in the barn and told him, let's
go in the house and make up And
so we went in and then he grabbed
his shotgun and shot me- ran and
he shot me- | knew he only had a
single barreIed gun and couldn't shoot
again and so / was mad and turned
around and went back into the house
after him. And then he tried to get
another shell and | shot him three
times as he went up the stairway"
Did you intend to shoot your wife?"
"No. | didn't mean to. They say
| shot her, but | didn't mean to do it."
He said that he had never treated
his wife mean and that she left him
because her mother, who didn't like
him, wanted to take her away. But
Sheriff Stecker said that his wife had
been afraid of the man and that he,
himself, had gone out to the farm
some time ago to help protect the girl.
wife in making her escape from this
man. Mueller says that his wife is
now almost seventeen years of age in.
stead of almost sixteen.
did you mean to shoot your moth
er-in-law?"
mo. That was accidental. Just
meant to shoot the old man. And then
he came after me again and ran. He
shot after me and then got away"
well, did you think you could es-
cape altogether by riding out of the
country?"
Eyes, ! thought | could get away"
"And did you offer fight when they
came to arrest you?"
mo. saw them coming, with guns
in their hands There were three
teams coming down the road and
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