The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-05
STRING OF FISH
SOLVES ENIGMA
Days Catch Floating in
Lake Leads to Finding
of Boys Body.
BROTHER ENDS SEARCH
Curt Lienau Gives Tip that En-
ables Officers to Recover Re-
mains of Lad Blown in Lake.

and wanted to sell led to the death
of Hans Lienau, the eight-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Lienau, SGT
Balm avenue; also the. discovery of
his lifeless form floating in the blue
waters of Lake Michigan just after
four o'clock Saturday afternoon.
All day Saturday police officers
searched the city for the lad who had
disappeared from the Simmons pier
late Friday afternoon. There was still
a lingering hope that he had taken
the wrong car home and was stranded
in some unfamiliar part of the city.
This became less and less believable
as the day wore on with no trace of
anyone who had seen him since he
started out to sell the string of fish
he and his ten-year-old brother, Curt,
had caught while angling from the
Simmons pier.
Shortly before four o'clock Curt,
who has been inconsolable over his
brothers disappearance went down to
the pier where he had last seen the
boy. AS he walked out along the pill
ing which protects the outlet of the
South street sewer he saw a string
Of fish floating on the surface of the
lake about fifty feet from the beach.
Matt Kirsch Discovers Body.
Broken-hearted because he recog-
nized the string of fish as the fish he
had caught and his brother wanted
to sell" and he knew that the boy
had been drowned he ran to a house
nearby and told them of his discovery
Police officers and life savers we're
Immediately notified and summoned.
Before the coast-guards arrived, Of
fcer Matt Kirsch went out with a
boat and rake and began his search
for the lads body. 1t was short. Just
beyond the string of fish he found the
life-less form of "the little feller'
who had helped catch them and want
ed something for them It was taken
at once to the Mischief undertaking
rooms on Park street and later to the
Tienau home on Balm avenue from
which the funeral services were held
at two o'clock this afternoon. In
torment followed in the family plot
at Green Ridge.
Born IN NerHanys
The bow whose death is one of the
most nathetic stories in the annals of
the lake shore, was born in Germany,
April 10, 1912. A year later his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Lienau
emigrated to the United States and
settled in Kenosha Here the child,
Hans. spent all of his brief but hap
py life.
Last winter he was among the
brightest and bestowed pupils in his
room at the Columbus school.
1t is now believed that his death was
due to the excitement attendants upon
Friday afternoons little cyclone along
the lakeshore. With his brother and
party Of friends. chaperoned by Mrs.
John Kessling. 671 Fleet street, he
had been fishing along the Simmons
pier when the gale approached. His
comrades left the breakwater in the
belief that the boy was following them.
Instead he had apparently started out
to sell the string Of fish that they had
caught He was not seen to leave the
pier and the supposition is that he.
in his excitement at finding himself
alone, tripped and fell into the water
or was blown into the lake by the
miniature tornado that swept over the
city just before five o'clock Friday
afternoon.
At any rate he was missing when a
check-up was made a little later and
became the object of the city-wide
search which ended in the recovery of
his body by Matt Kirsch WORKING I'M
der the supervision of Chief of Police
OHare, Secretary Emil Meissner,
Captain CIaussen and Officer Kauten-
burg.
Sister Is InconsOlabIe.
Partial credit for the discovery of
the lads BODY and the solution Of the
mystery of his death belongs to his
sister, Miss Edith Lienau. Like her
brother. Curt, she refused to give up
the search for Hans and suggested that
the ten-year-o1d make one more trip
to the pier where he had last been
seen. The little journey resulted
eventually in the finding and recovery
Of her brothers lifeless remains.
She like her brother and her parents.
can hardly realize chat Hans is gone"
but is clad that "they know where he
is now" and that he isn't still "lost
out there in the lake"