Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-08-24

for and in the presence of the persons
mentioned and also in the presence
of officer Schwister, Alfred again
made the confession and wrote it out
himself and signed it.
From the time he was taken in
custody, until he was brought before
the court for examination in the
afternoon, he was not seen or had
conVersed with any one except the
persons mentioned and the police and
Mr.. Dunn who had visited him as a
friend of the family.
After he had signed his confession
he asked as favor to be brought be-
fore the court without creating any
commotion, feeling evidently the dis
grace and ashamed to face the public.
His request was granted and he was
made to appear before the examining
court in the city hall, where he
waived examination and was bound
over to the circuit court.
No third degree methods were prac-
ticed on the unfortunate culprit, but
the evidence against him with which
the officers quietly and in dignitied
manner confronted him, aroused his
conscience and led him to confess the
crime. He stated to the officers that
he was in the act of going away with
out committing the crime when his
father suddenly awoke, and he then
fired, which he could not have done,
while his father was in sleep.
BRIEF LIFE SKETCH.
Peter Wehrley, the deceased, was
an honored and esteemed citizen of
WauSau, where he had resided during
the past ten years and where during
that time he had made for himself a
most enviable reputation. He was of
a genial and pleasant disposition and
one who readily made friends and
who not only made them, but held
them. He was industrious, frugal
and the soul of honor, kindly and
generous and ever willing to extend a
helping hand to everyone in need, or
to materially assist anyone whom he
deemed worthy of assistance; and
there are many throughout this coun-
ty who will ever remember the kind
nesses he has done them, and which
were done unostentatiously.
Peter Wehrley was born in Ger
many, September 2, 1868, and there
received a good education, continu-
ing in school until he had reached the
age of sixteen, when with his parents,
brothers and sisters, he came to
America and settled on a farm near
Millersburg, Indiana. He used to
delight in speaking of those days,
when the family was poor and hard
pressed and of the part he played in
building up its fortunes; of the hard
ships he and the other members of
the family experienced; how he had
labOred upon farm for whole year
at $l5 per month and board and how
at the end of the year he had been
enabled to turn over to his parents
from these meagre wages $165, being
all but SIS which he had expended for
clothing and other necessities. He
continued on the farm in Indiana I'M
til he had reached his majority, when
he started in for himself. By indus
try and frugality he soon amasSed
enough to start into business for him
self and engaged in the wholesale
paper business, laying the foundation
of a business in which he continued
until the panic, when he disposed of
his interest to his brother, whom he
had taken in as partner. Later he
engaged in the mercantile business in
Indiana, short distance from La
Fayette, where he made many friends
Mr.. Wehrley spent couple of years
in the Ozark mountain districts Of
Missouri in looking after and dispOs-
ing of some property that had come
into his hands, and he used to relate
many amusing experiences that be-