Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-01-21
MURDERS WIFE
AND KILLS SELF;
DAUGHTER SHOT
TWO ARE FIRED UPON WHEN THEY
ENTER FORMER HOME FOR
SOME CLOTHING.
CORSET STEEL STOPS BULLET.
Victim Who Escapes Declares She Heard
Five Shots After She Left the
Farmhouse.
GREEN BAY OFFICERS AT SCENE

GREENLEAF, Wis, Jan. 15.-[Spe-
2ial. Having murdered his wife and
probably fatally wounded his daughter,
August Maves, a farmer living two
miles from here. killed himself this
morning with q shot from a revolver
which he had purchased few days ago,
probably in anticipation of the tragedy
IN which he was the chief figure.
Iured into the home from which their
fathers drunken brutality had driven
them, Mrs. Maves and her daughter were
locked in a bedroom by Maves, who then
began firing shot after shot at them, kill
ing his wife and probably fatally wound
ing his daughter. The latter. by burst
OF frenzied strength, sprang through a
window and escaped the immediate fate
of her mother. Maves then barricaded
himself in the room and shot himself.
From the position of the bodies when
the deputy sheriffs entered the house it
is surmised that Mayes unlocked the bed
room door and either threw his dying
wife out of the room onto the dining room
floor, or else then relocked the door and
committed suicide. Mrs. Maves appar-
entity lived for a few minutes for she
seemed to have been trying to crawl to
the outer door.
Daughter Accuses Father.
Bleeding from bullet wounds in her
head, arms and abdomen, the daughter
is lying in critical condition at the
home OF William BrantZ, a neighbOr. In
| intervals of semi-cOnSciousness she tells
the parts Of the tale of which are not
supplied by two male companions who
accompanied the women from Appleton
to the door Of the farmhouse. Physicians
tO cfo 70
young Woman's life can be saved, but
she has a chance.
Two weeks ago Mrs. Maves procured
divorce from her husband on the
grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment.
He drank to excess and it was testified
at the trial that he frequently had
threatened to do bodily harm to his WIFE,
The daughter, who is Mrs. Martha
Knorr Of Appleton, has not been living
at home since her marriage, and after
the divorce proceedings were over, she
took her mother to live with her.
Went to Get Clothing.
Desiring to procure some clothing and
other articles belonging TO Mrs. Maves,
the mother and daughter, accompanied
by two male friends, went from Apple
ton to the farm this morning. Maves met
them cordially at the door and invited
the women to enter.
While the men remained in a vehicle
outside the mother and daughter accom-
panied the farmer into the house, where
he continued to treat them as though he
were glad to see them. Although able to
tell the remainder of the story only in
unconnected phrases, the wounded daugh-
ter has told enough to show that on
some pretext, her father got the women
into a small bedroom, the door of which
he locked.
Then a horrible suspicion dawned upon
the daughter, and it was almost instant
ly realized when her father seized a
firearm and without word of warning
began blazing away at his wife. Al
most the first shot hit it's mark, but
both women, with the frenzy born of de-
sDair, sprang upon the blood-crazed man
and a mad battle ensued, in which the
combined strength of mother and daugh-
ter proved unequal to wrestling the smok-
ing weapon from his grasp.
Corset Steel Saves Life.
In the struggle, the daughter was shot
several times, one bullet striking her near
the heart but glancing harmlessly off a
would not have lived to see her mother
fall PROSTATE to the floor, bleeding from
a shot in the head.
During the moment when her father
was busy completing his firing at her
mother the daughter hurled herself
through the window, falling into the deep
snow outside, and was picked upl by the
waiting men, who meantime had1rushed
to the house on hearing the fusillade of
shots. They carried the young woman
to the neighbours house and summoned
doctors and deputy sheriffs.
In response to the summons. District
Attorney John w. Reynolds and Deputy
Sheriffs Edward McMens and George
Kolescher hurried to the farm from Ap-
pleton. They reconnoitered for a while,
fearing that the farmer might be lying
in wait with more ammunition handy,
but hearing no noise or seeing no sign
of life about the place, the officers
finally rushed to the building and found
the outer doors unlocked and the body
of Mrs. Maves weltering in a pool Of
blood on the dining room floor. Only
the door of the bedroom in which Maves
l.illnd himself WAS locked.