The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-08-09
PROBABLE MURDER
OF MRS. SAL zNER
FOUND DEsPERATELY WOUNDED
AND UNCONSCIOUS YESTER.
DAY MORNING.
HUSBAND UNDER ARREST
Had Beaten Her Cruelty Many Times
She Appealed to Friends For
Protecton-Baby One Year
Old BY Her Side.

! A mysterious assault which MAY
Itgrn cut TO be a murder was reported
10 the police early Yesterday morning
| by Elnry Salzaer, a photographer al
1913 Commercial avenue, the victim
being Salzners wife. Mrs. Mary Sal2
ner. The husbands story was that
Mrs. Salzner had been assaulted by
some one at her home at 2l0 Six
teenth street, during his absence.
The police went to the house and
found the woman in an unconscious
state, lying on a pallet made on the
floor. She was bleeding from a
wound on the side of her head made
By some blurt instrument, which had
cut through her ear and into the
scalp behind the ear, also fractured
OF iniented the skull. The circum-
stances and what they heard from
neighbors led Chief Egan to believe
that Salzner himself might have been
the assistant AID he ordered Salzaer
TO be held in Jail pending further
developments.
Mrs. Salzner's story is a sad one.
She is young woman, daughter Of
a man named Jones VINO resides in
Paducah Her mother is dead and a
sister resides in Memphis, Some
years ago she met Salzner in Cairo
ami became too intimate with him
Friends of hers compelled him to
marry her. He established her in a
shack on Sixteenth street but he al
ways resided with his parents and
contributed only a few cents per day
toward her support She had two
children by him one three years old
which he took away from her some
time ago and one just year Old. He
visited her at intervals, but took his
meals and slept at his parents
house He abused her frequently,
beating her numerically and she has
a number of times appealed for pro
lection to neighbors and friends, de
claring she feared he would kill her.
A few days ago, ii. conversation with
friends. she smihngly displayed two
copper cents, saying that was all she
had to live through the day and CON
sidared herself lucky to have that
much Ten or fifteen cents per day is
said to have been all Salzner has con-
tributed toward the support of his
wife and baby. That the young
woman lived in abiect poverty was
apparent to any one VINO saw her or
called at her miserable home. two lit
tie rooms in a onestory frame struc.
tire occupied by several families.
Her nearest reighbors are sepa,
rated from her only by a board parti-
ton About II O'Clock Saturday night
they heard a violent thump in her
apartment. which Jared the floor of
the building. There was no cry and
everything was still They suspected
that something was wrong as they
had seen Salzrer in the vicinity just
before. although he denies having
been there at all They thought al
first the baby had fallen, but hearing
no cutlery they Investigated and dis
covered the young mother lying on
her pallet meaning. blood running
profusely from the wound in her
head her baby by her side, bliss
fully unconscious of its mothers con-
dition. Salzner was not in sight.
The officers searched diligently for
the weapon with which the woman
had been struck end found an AK un-
der the bed which they believe was.
the murderous instrument used.
Officers believe that Salzner
wished to rid himself Of his wife for
reasons best known to himself and
that he called u9on her late Saturday
night determined to Kill her.
Neighbors and others who know
Mrs. Salzner speak well Of her. de-
elaring that she gave her husband no
cause fer the IN treatment to which
she has been subjected by him.