The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-11
MADE NO FURTHER STATEMENT
Mother of Dead Woman Offers Officers
Jewelry and Clothing to Defray Fun
eral Expenses No Trace of Husband
Has Been Found by the Police.
From Tuesday s Daily.

Mrs Lena Valentine, thirty years
old, who was shot by her husband,
Tony Valentine at their home on
Brockett street on the morning of
April 25th, died at the Kenosha hos
pital just after eight clock this morn
ing. Death came as sweet release
to the woman who was facing the life
of hopeless cripple. Her condition
had been critical ever since the morn
ing of the shooting but she had ling
cred SO long that the physicians at
tending her had begun to believe that
| it was possible that she would sur
vive. During the night she suffered
a relapse and just after six clock
this morning she became very weak.
The police officers had hurried call
to summon her relatives to the hospi-
tai but the woman dropped into never
ending sleep before they arrived.
Mrs. Valentine made no new state
ment in regard to the shooting previ-
friendly with the nurses at the hospital
and it had been thought possible that
they would gain her confidence and
that before the end came she would
make some statement in regard to the
relations between herself and her hus-
band which led up to the shooting, but
even when death was near this morning
the young italian woman closed her
lips and barred from the officials her
heart story.
The remains were removed to the
Mischler morgue and it is not thought
| it will be necessary to hold an inquest.
Physicians who attended the woman
will be ready to testify that she died
as result of the wounds inflicted by.
her husband. Just after the shooting
the woman made short statement Of
her relations with her husband to the
district attorney but this statement
threw little light on the tragedy.
There is one little girl surviving. This
child has been in the keeping of rela-
tives since the mother was shot, but
! it is probable that the city officials
tie orphan.
The mother of Mrs Valentine mott
fed the pauper commissioner that she
would turn over to him all the person
al effects Of the murdered woman and
she asked that these be sold to pay the
expenses of a Christian burial.
Valentine is still at large and al
though the police have sent letters to
many cities they have not been able
| to get any trace of the missing
Italian. Several weeks ago Mrs. Val
entine received long letter from her
husband. 1t bore a post mark of
town in Northern Michigan and the
police promptly sought to secure the
arrest of the murderer there, but the
officials at the village declared that he
was not there and had not been there.
In this letter Valentine made charges
of infdelity against his wife. The
young woman has been strongly de-
Tended by her relatives and by many
people Of prominence in the Italian
colony and it is declared that her life
had been Of such nature as to make
her above criticism.
Valentine was known to have been
| insanely jealous of the woman and in
his letters he sought to secure forgive
ness and sought to have the woman
frame up story which would indi-
cate that he shot in self defense.
No arrangements have been made
| for the funeral of the murdered woman
but it will probably be held on Thurs
day morning.