The Detroit times., 1909-05-22
WOMAN
STAYS HER FATHER
Miss Louise Arbogast's Mother Finds
Victim in Bed-Gruesom Tokens
of Tragedy Are Revealed.

II | were hanged on the highest hin.
Mother mine. mothor . mine
l know whose love would follow me
still,
Mother o mine. O mother u mine.
II | were drowned in The deepest sea,
Mother o mine. - mother % mine'
l know whose tears would come down
10 me.
Mother o mine. o mother o mine.
Ii | were damned of body and soul,
know whose prayers would make me
whole.
Mother o mine. O mother o. mine!
ST. PAIL, MINI, May 22--Above
the grewsomeness of terrible muir
a mothers love.
Mrs Louis Arbogast was awakened
at o'clock I'm he morning by the
cries OF her beautiful daughter Louise,
who Is "a years old. Arising. she met
Louise and two younger daughters.
who had also been aroused by Lou
lses means In the hallway.
Something Is the matter with papa
Something is the matter with the
gas" sobbed Louise.
Mrs. Arbogast rushed to the room
where her husband slept
Fhe room was filled with smoke
from a charming flame on her nus
bands bed. The mother rushed TO the
bed and fought the flames with her
hands, calling meanwhile TO her nus
band. Then she saw he was blood
Desmeared and that blood covered the
bed. pillows and sheets.
Turning 10 the moaning Louise She
saw that the girls silken nightgown
was soaked in bleed.
"Lomse?" shrieked the mother In a
terrible question.
YES. | did it," said Louise.
The girl. who was engaged TO be
married to Henry Spangenberg. scion
of well-to-do st. Paul family. had
only recently returned TO her home
from sanitarium, where she had
been treated for n nervous ailment.
The mother suddenly realized that
her daughter was insane
The mother love. In the midst or all
the horror rose to meet the terrible
occasion.
She rushed into the cellar with the
blood-covered ak; behind her went her
two daughters, fearful OF the terrible
scene ABOVE. Behind them came the
blood bespattered, beautiful Louise,
moaning.
Then. the ak being hidden. the
rrewsome procession went into the
large bathroom. II was. perhaps, the
most terrible hi. of housekeeping
that wemens hands have ever done.
Unaccustomed as they-were to doing
housework. the mother and the two
sane sisters wasned clothes with des-
peration. They performed the terri
HE task of taking the blood-soaked
sheets from beneath the body; they
cleared the stains from the carpet
they washed the blood, as best they
could from Louise's nightgown. The
mothers nightgown. which had been
burned in the fire. was destroyed.
All this terrible task the mother
nerformed with her hands literally
scorched
Then, after this was done, the
mother called the police.
Louise would not keep quiet wheh
they arrived.
Something's the matter with papa.
Something's the matter with the gas
she moaned over and over. 30 the
mother and sisters did not add 10 her
story.
The mother was so i'll the police
took her to the hospital. together with
the moaning Louise.
For three days the police were on
the case. but the mother did not con-
fess her daughters crime until the po'
lice had worked 1t out in their own
minds.
Poor girl. Don't hurt her. she
pleaded. - :.
The police arrested the girl. but IL
w. moi nrobable that she will be prose
ruted- Now she only smiles and talks
pleasantly with the sheriff. who Is d
friend Of the family
II IL feared that the young man she
was to nave married in June VIII lose
l.