Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-03-04
BORNTAT VILLAGE
OF SANDUSKY
Leaves a Guild Six Months
Old--Many attend the
Funeral SERVICES

The following from the RdshViEe
fNebraska) Recorder tells of the tnur-
der or Mrs. Ruben Sanders, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Cooper Fisher, for
m9rly residents of Sandusky, in this
county. The article reads as follows:
Mrs. iRuben Sanders was brutally
murdered in her home, on the Zoll
place, One=half mile southwest of town
between the hours of 2 and p. m.
Sunday afternoon.
Her husband left home about 2 p.
m. on horseback, and rode to towp,
SVhere he spent the afternoon with
friends, part Of She time in the fesA
rtaurant. He returned home between
five and six p. m. ans On entering the
house heard the baby crying, and on
docking round found his wife on the
floor in a pool of blood ne&F the north
window of the front room. He took
hold of her hand and found it cold, and
his first thought was she had coTNmit-
ted suicide. Half dazed he took up the
baby, and waded through the snow on
foot to Fred Wasmund's, and notified
him what he had seen and told him
to phone for a sheriff aud a doctor.
Shortly after Sheriff Bruce and DR..
Crawford were driven up in sleigh by
Harry Hubbard. Later on undertaken
John Grubb, C. w. Bracken and John
Dullaghan drove up to the house and
together they held a preliminary ir-
quest and concluded it was case of
suicide. A blood stained butcher knife
was found in the room which belonged
to the family DR. Crawford thought
the woman must have been dead sew
eraI hours.
Attention Drawn to Wounds.
When John Grubb, the undertaken,
had tie body placed upon the table for
the purpose of preparing it for burial,
his attention was drawn to the many
and deep wounds, which by their ma
ture could not be self infi cted.
At noon Monday, the coroner, DR..
Molzahn, came down from Hay Springs,
on the belated freight and as soon as a
iurv consisting of A. d. New, Fred
Wasmund, G. W. Bracken, Harry Hub
bard. John Dullaghan and J. W. Grubb
were gathered together they went out
to the farm in sleighs. DR.. Wilson as
sisted DR.. Molzahn and minute exam
ination of the wounds on the body were
made and two photographs taken.
The inquest revealed shocking inJur-
les to the unfortunate woman. Her
head was almost severed from the body
the left arm and hand was gashed
in seven places, as though she had
endeavored to ward off the cruel blows
of some sharp instrument. There were
deep wounds on the scalp and slight
wounds on the back. Altogether there
were twenty eight wounds on the body.
Blood was bespattered over the carpet
and the disordered state of things, gave
evidence of terrible struggle, before
the woman was literally butchered to
death The jury brought in verdict
That the said Mrs. Mabel Sanders came
to her death by knife wounds inflicted
by some other than herself ard un-
known to the jury.
This terrible case is full of mystery
as up to the time we go to press, the
real culprit has not been discovered,
while one arrest and many stories have
been circulated by the community, who
have been terribly wrought up over this
shocking crime.
The first story got out: was that on
Sunday afternoon young man in a
mackinaw coat and cloth cap was seen by
several of our citizens fioundering
through the snow on South Main Street
shortly after 2 sp. m. ands going up
the hill towards the Sanders