The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-08-18
SOCIALISTS LOYAL TO DEAD
Leaders Fail To Give Out Any State
ments To Make Good Hints In Letter
Left BY Former Head of Merchantile
Company

into the death of the late Frank w.
Nothing completed its investigation
late Friday afternoon and returned
verdict holding that the deceased came
to his death as a result of wounds,
self-inf1icted, while mentally deranged.
The jury failed to bring out any i'm
portant points in regard to the life or
death of Nothing and the only witnesses
examined were the two men who had
been In the store at the time the body
of Nohling was found. The story told
by, these two men together with the
letter which had been left by the dead
man III the opinion Of the jurors was
sufficient to find that Nohling had died
by his own hand. Mrs. Nothing was
not asked to attend the inquest as un-
der the conditions the Coroner and the
members of the jury held that her pres
ence at the inquest was unnecessary
and that it was unnecessary for the
story Of the last few days of the life
Of Nohling to be laid bare in this public
manner. In addition to this was the
fact that Mrs. Nothing was completely
Frustrated with grief and her own con-
dition was such as to have made it i'm
possible for her to have attended the
inquest.
Nothing had been i'll for some time
and it was shown that he recently went
to his old home in Rockford with the
belief that change in scene would
relieve his mental tension and restore
him to health. He had returned from
Rockford the first of this week and
had seemingly been greatly benefited
by the trip.
The evidence brought out at the
coroner's inquest failed to show any
thing in regard to the financial affairs
of the dead man more than had been
stated in the letter which he left be-
hind. 1t is claimed however by those
who were close to Nohling that he i'm
agined that his financial condition was
much worse than it actually was. These
same friends declare that Nohling was
not financially embarrassed. Prominent
Social leaders decnne to discuss the
affairs Of Nothing and the various So
cialistic bodies in the city but it is
declared that if Nohling speculated
with any money of the Social Demo
Gratis it must have been small Most of
these people are inclined to believe that
Nohling was deranged when he wrote
the letter found by the coroner and
that he did not know what he was
writing. Men in the Socialist ranks
have only the kindliest feeling toward
their dead '!Comrade'' and all of them
declared that Nohling spent much mon
ey and time with the work of this
party and his reading along socialistic
lines made him. an authority among the
members OF the party in Kenosha.
The last OF the Socialistic organiza-
tions to be formed under the direction
of Nohling was the Kenosha Cooper
alive Association which was chartered
by the state in May of last year. Nohl-
ing, Howard Dennis and Michael Yabs
were the incorporators> of this organiza-
ton and it planned for the opening of
a. Social Democratic club house at the
old University school. This building
was purchased in the name of Frank w.
Nohling but the records of the county
show that later it was transferred by
Nothing and his wife to the Association
and search of the records fails to
show that Nohling had any claims on
this property.