The Calumet news., 1912-06-17
Hancock Department
INVESTIGATING
WOMAN'S DEATH
UNDER SHERIFF SHERIDAN is
WORKING ON CASE or wo.
MAN CLAIMED TO HAVE
SHOT SELF.

Under Sheriff Phil Sheridan is IN
Vestigation strange shooting case re.
ported to the officials about midnight
Saturday night. Mrs. Jennie Hentu-
men, aged eighteen years. and a bride
| OF only four weeks. was reported 10
have shot herself In the right temple
AT her homo near the corner of White
and Ryan streets, i'm the presence of
her husband, who is employed as "A
miner at the Quincy and. Jennie Olson,
aged IL, of Otter Lake, daughter OF
Charles Olson.
Justice Eiehkern was summoned and
impanneled a jury to investigate the
shooting and after the remains were
viewed by the jury an adjournment
was taken until this evening. The
Jurors are John Swanson. Gus Wick
strom. Andrew Wheeler, Herman Jof-
fee, Peter O'Brein and William Carroll.
| The woman's body was found lying
PROSTATE on the floor in pool OF
blood, with a 3S-caliber pistol clasped
In her right hand Several empty
beer bottles stood on a table, and il
was stated by Hentunnen that
twice before during their brief married
life his wife had attempted to kill her.
self
on account of various circum-
stances attending the shooting 1t is
expected that the inquest to be held
tonight will be adjourned until the Of
| iicials have made a further investi-
| cation of the affair. The story of Ida
Olson. the girl who was present at
the shooting as related to Under Sher-
in Sheridan through Jacob Jarvis as
interpreter, is that the three, Mr.. and
\ Mrs. Hentunen and herself had un-
dressed in the bedroom, and that she
had gone into the front room to sleep
on the davenport. While the three
| were i'm the bedroom, Mrs. Hentunen
| had taken a pistol from drawer and
held ii to her head in front Of mir
| ror. Hentunen had taken the weapon
away and placed II beneath the pillow
on the bed. Miss Olson had been in
| the front room but q moment when
1
Mrs. Hentunen came i'm and burst in
to tears. declaring she was poor or
phan with no friends. She then left
and a moment afterwards Miss Olson
f, heard door slam and Mrs. Hentunen
appeared again. Being frightened.
| Miss Olson leaped over the back OF
the davenport. scaping the skin OF
her shins in doing so. She then saw
\ Mrs. Hentunen strike n match and by
its light saw that she had pistol in
her hand. She ducked down behind
the back of the davenport and then
heard the pistol go off. When the OF
fcers arrived, Mrs. Hentunen was ly-
ING on the floor undressed and the 9TH
ers were in their night clothes. The
pistol. Under Sheriff Sheridan declares,
was not grasped firmly in the woman's )
hand but was loosely suspended from
one finger, by the trigger guard. "A
box of matches was found under
meath the dead woman's body.
The husband. Hentunen, 1t is stated
was considerably agitated when the
officials paid a second visit to the
house yesterday. bursting into TRADE
against conditions and saying that
these conditions were responsible for
the death of his wife. Hentunen is
said to he a Socialist and employed az
a Finnish printing Office, where II is
said by the officials, the Olson girl Is
also employed.
woman named Waara, living on
the first floor of the house In which
the Hentunens resided. told Sheridan
. that all saturday evening the peopi,
unstairs had been running about ana
,,aking "a noise so that she had sew
/, oral times raped on the walls 70
v,arn them TO keep quiet.
. The appearance OF the dead woman
face near the temple, showed powde'
7 burns. which are taken to inoicate
tbat the weapon with which the shoot
r ,nn was done must have been heio
2 close 70 her flesh when the shot was
ared If the woman did the shooting
herself II is presumed that the motive
| 20. sort of alteration induced by tho
E excitement of drinking. The matter
4 x,u he thoroughly sifted. however .n'
0 oecials not being entirely satlsheo
= With tho explanation given of the wo'
mans death.