Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-24
Won KUTzLEbAN
is REL leased
GERMAN BARON, WHO WRECKED
TRAIN WHILE INSANE, OUT
OF IOWA PRISON.

Des Moines. June 22.-After four
years of struggle and weary waiting IN
an alien land, mother love in the
breast of Baroness Won Kutzleben of
Berlin has triumphed over the prison
bars of Anamosa and today she is
speeding eastward from Chicago in the
same Pullman with the demented son
for whose liberty she has fought and
prayed since he wrecked a Rock Is
land passenger train at Homestead in
March, 1905.
Baron Eric Won Kutzleben was re-
leased from the reformatory at Ana
mosa Saturday afternoon after County
Attorney Cash of Jones county had Of
fered futile resistance t, the habeas
corpus proceedings brought before
Judge w. M. Treicher at Anamosa by
Attorneys Popham & Hayner of Mar
engo, and an hour later the unfor-
tunate nobleman boarded train for
Chicago, where his mother waited at
the station with tears of JOY in her
eyes.
Last night mother and son took a
train for New York and the FIRST de-
parting steamer will carry them back
to the fatherland and the home which
young Kutzleben left more than five
years ago in the hope of benefiting his
health, driven to desperation and the
life of a wanderer by epileptic fits
which cut short brilliant career In
the army and branded him a pariah.
Mother Makes Sacrifice.
Kutzleben's final release after a con-
viction for murder in the first degree
and four years spent in the insane
ward at Anamosa is a story of the love
of mother who has sacrificed all for
her boy. Leaving her home and the
associations of life spent at the Ger
he vet hat
sailed after the news of her sons ar
rest reached her and coming to Mar
engo engaged the best attorneys in
that city to defend her son, whose
malady and subsequent misfortune had
only increased the maternal tender
ness.
Kutzleben had spent only three
weeks in the German colony at Maren-
go when the midnight passenger train
to Chicago ran into the ditch and En-
gineer A. p. Hotchlliss was killed. The
young German, then rs years old, had
been seen tampering with the rails
near the scene Of the wreck and an ex-
animation showed that an angle bar
had been pulled out of position leav-
ing the rails loose.
In spite of an able Defense Kutzle
ben was convicted and sentenced to
Imprisonment for life for murder in
the first degree. Baroness Won Kutzle-
hen atfnnIeI 40 fria oil nd
tratad u,han +ha ,,ard;ot $40 b.,
ham (, Havner 90 Maranen tvho oo ~
d,Icted tho dafans. $500, nra - 70
tha supreme court a,,d tha Inu,a,, ,n,,,t
was reveread IN e,ro,. Porona.s ,nr,
Kutzlaben In TIC ,aaa,tin,a bad t.san
I'm her res;danna il, New wor,, a,,d 20
fused to return to Germany while her
son was behind the bars.
Before the second trial began, Won
tion FOR haa ,in.r - datar,,,,na thair
cIinnt,s san,t,, a,,S a1t,,n,e.,, 'i - ,, sn VI
sisted b% az ros an :. +t we ~
tna ar,,i;,,tia ~, ie ss's,
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had testified ''i'o 6 'ei u''
EonI Wair Brings victory.
but the Verdlct was not sufficient 10
give the young nobleman his release.
ana ne was committed TO Anamosa
uhoer provision OF the Iowa stetute
lhat says the crlmlnally insane may be
detalned IN state,s prison pending their
recovery or the dismissal of the indict-
ments against them.
Won hutzleben. was taken to Ana
mosa and there he has remained four
years While his mother lived quietly in
T. New York, making occasional visits to
Last November the second indict-
rnent charging Won Kutbleben with
li IN ~ o1 lliili WrecKlng was dlsfnlss-