Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-30
MRS. RASMUSSEN, VICTIM OF
MADsEN,s BULLETS, HAS
CHANCE. TO RECOVER.
FORMER BEAUTY GONE,
MIND SEEMS AFFECTED
Madsen Feared Mrs. Rasmussen Would
Become Reconciled With Husband
and Abandon Him-ReIatives of Dead
Man Can Not Be Located-other
State News.
Special to Times-Republican.

special 10 IlmeS-Republicaf1.
Council Bluffs, Aug. S0.-Jealousy
and love that leads to attempted muir
der, such as was revealed in the shoot
Ing of Mrs. ANel Rasmussen by An
drew Madsen and the suicide of the
latter at Cut Off Lake, has left the VIC
tim of the mans jealousy in a terrible
condition of mind, and tho she may
live. which is doubtful. with three bull
let wounds, one of them thru the head,
she will always bear fearful scars of
the encounter in the new made home of
the Rasmussens.
Perfectly conscious and swathed in
bandages, the woman lies at St Jo-
seph's hospital with a sister constantly
by her side trying to soothe her and
stop the constant babbling of the hor-
ror which has overtakcn her.
Mrs. Rasmussen, who came here one
week ago from Doom, Iowa. to join her
husband, is u pretty young woman, "a
years old. While she had been mar
ried to Rasmussen several years, they
had been separated for some time, and
when she saw him in Omaha it was the
irst time in many months. Last No
VEN Der, while living at hardwood,
Iowa, drunkenness on the part of Ras-
lnussen is said TO have caused a sep
aration, the wife going to live with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Christensen. at
Doom, Iowa. While there she met Mad
sen. the acquaintance ripening into
something more than friendship
Madsen Feared Reconciliation.
Madsen, however, was possessed with
The fear that there might occur a
reconciliation between Rasmussen and
mis- wife, and he was continually urging
Mrs. Rasmussen to marry him, and
Mrs. Rasmussen. since the shooting,
has said that Madsen had threatened to
kill her should she ever become rec
onciled to her husband.
The Rasmussens leased a house on
Avenue F in Cut,iHM and Mrs. Ras-
mussen, really happy, set about to pre-
pare it for their home. She was in the
midst of this work when Madsen. I'M
announced, appeared in the house. the
first the woman knew of his presence
in the city being when she looked
around and was confronted by Madsen.
Madsen was standing in the door, a
sinister looking, object, indeed to the
thoroughly frightened woman. Declar-
ing. without any other greeting, that
ne had come to lnakeTgood his threat,
and at once, he began to shoot. Three
shots struck the woman, who stag
gered out Of theedoor and was saved
from falling by Lawrence Thorson, a
N a hn l1ud RI va
ing. Madsen then turned the revolver
upon himself and with two bullets in
his head fell to the floor and expired.
Madsen's desperate love for the
woman is shown in a letter written by
him. but which he did not mail and
which was found on his person.
When Little Girl.
II has not been shown that the wom-
an gave Madsen any encouragement in
believing that he could win her. That
she cared much for her husband is
certain and she was said to have been
happy in the prospect of a new. home in
Few environment and amidst new sur
roundings. John P. Tinly of Council
Bluffs, was formerly mayor Of Doom,
Iowa, and knew the Christensen fam
lily well. The girls father is of Danish
birth and her mother was Irish. Mr..
FINLEY relates an incident occurring
when the girl was about IA years old
and began affiliating with the Catholic
church. She was one of class whom
the priest was questioning about the
catechism and he asked her to name
the seven deadly sins, Her memory
forsook her, and after hesitating for a
time said the only deadly sin she could
remember was "matrimony"
Madsen's burial has not been held
yet as efforts have been made to To-
cate relative, which have been unsuc-
cesful