Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
FRANK 7. TUCKER
| BROWNS HIMSELF
.,or.NT ATTORNEY GENERAL
,no REPUBLICAN, CANDI-
nate FOR ATTY. GEN.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
t,;oods Believe That He Was Tenn
oorariv Deranged by Attack on
His Honesty-A Shock to
All Who Knew Him.

,rodis0n.-That Frank T. Tucker,
,oond assistant attorney general of
U,isconsin. committed suicide while
,.onp is the belief of those here
an1iIiar with the events which no
ESonbt led to the tragedy, revealed
krbon Mr.. fuckers lifeless body was
&ocovered from Fox river at Osh-
Losh following his mysterious dis
i nnparance from the hotel at which
ne stopped.
Mr.. Tucker was a candidate for the
eonuhIicaD nomination as attorney
General. Charges have been made
Fba+ campaign literature in his be-
6aIf was being sent out in envelopes
hparing the return card of the state
.frn marshals office, over which had
kpnn placed stickers bearing the name
III republican club and that of a
Madison bank.
Following these charges an inves-
stgation was started at the insti-
spatiOn of the fire marshal and H.
N GundersOn of Portage, another
candidate for the office sought by Mr..
Trucker, but no new light has been
Eshed on the matter.
Mr.. Tucker had at once issued a
Statement denying responsibility for
stbe use of the fire marshal's enve-
Homes. and declaring that the whole
saffair was a frame up" by some I'M
known persons, to discredit him.
sWeu known state officials expressed
,tbeir confidence in Mr.. fuckers hon
lesty in the affair, but nevertheless
stbe charges worried Mr.. Tucker
greatly, his fear being that the
Shadow of them would injure his
chances for receiving the nomination
|he sought
Mr.. Tucker has been under sur
VIGILANCE by friends since the story
|of the stamped envelopes was pub
Ilished. He had been more or less
It'll for a month.
A. c. Titus, assistant attorney
general, and Russell Jackson, deputy
attorney general, were Mortified at
1.-THE news. All over the capitol no
|Other topic has been discussed all
day That Tucker must have become
Temporarily insane over the turn in
his political affairs seemed to be
the unanimous opinion of all who
knew him.
Joseph Messerschmidt, third as
|Sistant attorney general, said that
Tucker told him that he was inno-
|cent Of any wrong in the envelope
incident, but that he was afraid he
would not be able to prove it in time
ito save his chances in the campaign.
He broke down and wept.
Mr. Tucker acted Eighty and was
Examined by DR.. Harper, a Madison
physician, who told him he was
threatened with mental collapse and
advised him to go to his home for
la complete rest. Two friends from
Madison accompanied him to Oshkosh.
Mr.. Tucker sat on the stage in the
|armory during the Dolliver meeting
lat Oshkosh. None who met him
there, so far as can be ascertained,
observed anything unusual in his
bearing. After the meeting he &C
.c0mpanIed Francis E. McGovern of
milwaukee to the Wisconsin Central
station when that gubernatorial can
dIdate left shortly before midnight,
and then returned to the Hotel Ire
mont and retired.
AT about 1 o'clock in the morning
AIR. Tucker is said to have paid his
motel bill and left the place, sup
poSedly to take a $500 line train.
Not long afterward Matt Haley,
tender OF the Light street bridge,
heard splash in the river just be-
meath the structure which he guards.
ne ran to the center of the bridge,
out could see nothing in the water.
men he discovered at his side hat
ana a grip. He notified the author
lueS al once.
While inquiry was being made and
an cIeWs followed, the officers, who
were dragging the river, suddenly
came upon a body not far from the
LIsht street bridge, and the remains
were soon Identified as those of Mr.
Tucker.