Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-17

her husband had gone away from home
with strange man to have clock
repaired. Her story was believed and
this man was supposed to have been
| the murderer
Mrs. Bardenheier with her daughter
came to Chicago to live. Recently
the mother was committed to Dunning
as insane. Inquiry regarding the muir
der was renewed, and the girl yester-
day told her story. She said her
mother had discovered evidences of
infidelity on the part of her husband,
who was AZ years old and weighed
| 325 pounds. Brooding over the sup
posed wrong, says the girl, her mother
| lured her father to a slaughterhouse
| on farm near Madison and there shot
| him behind the right ear and in the
| forehead. When Miss Bardenheier
| hurried up to learn what had hap
pened, her mother told her the. father
had committed suicide Confused by
! the daughters questioning, the moth
er confessed the killing of her hus-
band Mother and daughter, to give
the impression that Bardenheier had
committed suicide, put a rope around
his neck and tried to drag the heavy
body off the floor, suspended from a
beam. They were not strong enough
and the body was then dragged into
the hazel bushes and left there, the
mother later reporting the disappear.
ance to the police.
On account of the condition of her
mind, it is unlikely the mother ever
will be brought to trial Nor is there
any present intention to try the daugh-
ter as an accessory after the fact
Miss Bardenheier swooned after re-
citing the details of the tragedy
Story of Revenge and Intrigue.
Revenge, jealousy, covetousness and
intrigue all enter into the situation
which has baffled the police for near
ly three years. The daughter was in
duced to make statement clearing
the police, by Detective Charles O'Don-
nell, who was assigned to the case
more than two years ago by Assist
ant Chief Of Police Schuettler A part
of the recital of the horrible affair
was the story of the daughter relative
to the Turing of her husband and faith
err by her mother to the slaughter
house. The murder occurred on a /
Sunday afternoon, according to the |
confession, Bardsnheier having been
enticed to the place by his wife. The
slaughterhouse, according to the girl, |
had been located by her mother sevAl
eral days before and the latter in
duced her husband to go to the local |
ity on a pretense of taking a trip to I
the country. Upon arriving at the !
place the mother suggested, according
to the daughters story, that he look
over the establishment with view
of ascertaining if 1t was similar to
'slaughterhouses in Germany" Ac-
cording to the story obtained by the
police Bardenheier went ahead of his
wife and daughter, and had barely
opened the door of the slaughtering
before his wife drew a |
revolver and shot him in the back of
the head. He reeled according to
the police story, and turned about fac
ing Mrs. Bardenheier The next in
slant another bullet from Mrs. Bar
denheier's pistol entered his head
above the right eye and he fell over
wounded.
Many Newspaper Reporters.
Sheriff Halbach and Mr.. Mason re-
turned to Madison late last night.
During their stay in Chicago they had
great difficulty in avoiding the report
ers. They knew that something inn
portant was being investigated, and in
several papers appeared accounts of
mystery being unearthed. In an
extra editor of an afternoon paper
appeared a meager account of the
confession of the girl, with the head
line flashed across the front page
Girl Accuses Mother as Slayer A
representative Of an afternoon paper
telephoned to Madison about the mat
ter yesterday afternoon, but nothing
was known of the affair here at that
fiTyop