The Washington times., 1920-09-11
AFRAID, WIFE
/. WROTE SISTER
Husband to Seek His Freedom
Today on Writ Of Habeas
y Corpus.
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Sweeney, during the search yesterday
/ for the woman's body, they did not
speak. Kuehling shifted his eyes
every time Osgood gave him a burn
ing. penetrating glance.
"Id like to thrash him." said os-
good.
He said he had told his son.
-Mother is away; she'll be back
soon"
nL-TREATED, HE SAYS.
"And. now." said osgood. "ive got
} TO 20 back and tell him the truth"
\ The child is only five years old.
ats been pretty tough on me since
my wife divorced me-" he said. 1t
was all a Misunderstanding and l be-
heyed she would come back to her
boy, II not to me. We have heard OF
kuehling's Ill treatment OF her.
"Why, they had only been married
n few weeks when ne slapped her
while In a street car In Detroit. A
number of men would have handled
him roughly, but she interfered.
They went to a theater md she
walked out. They were separated
for q month. hut some OF their
friends brought them together again.
They then came to Warrington,
kuehIing's home city.
"As far as / am concerned, L don't
want any of my wife's money. soon
after her marriage to Kuehling, un-
derstand, she wro&~her will, making
our son the sole beneficiary OF her
estate in case of death. Whether
Oh hau do annfher will since COM
ing to Washington 1 do not know.
"KuehIing had q strange influence
over my divorced wife. cannot un-
derstand It,"
Keuhling denies that he knew his
wife contemplated fling divorce pro-
\ ceedings against him.
WIFE HAD PREMONITION.
That Mrs. Kuehling had Fremont
tion that she was to meet death in
tragic manner, was told Inspector
Clifford L. Grant. chief of detectives.
who is directing the police investiga-
tion.
.Her divorced husband declared to-
day she had written friends In De-
trOit that Kuehling had choked ana
attacked her, and had threatened her
life. Similar reports reached lnspec-
tor Grant from persons who knew the
couple since they have been living
mt WOodside.
1t was principally because OF this
fear of death Mrs. Kuehling, 1T is
said, failed to complete the negotia-
ton for the purchase of the home OF
Miss Lulu K.& Cameron. Fenwick
lane, woodside, where they had
boarded for several months.
81 don't think 1 will live at the
Cameron home because II Is back. on
the road and I fear that something
could happen to me without anyone
knowing of it,' she declared 10 m
intimate.
Mrs. Cameron had entered suit for
breach of contract against Mrs. kueh-
ling as the result of her failure 10
purchase the house.
II also developed yesterday that
only n few days before Mrs. kueh-
ling met her death, her husband hnd
asked her to advance enough money
to buy a revolver. She refused II is
said.
MET AT PALM BEACH.
} The romance eliminating in the
marriage of Kuehling and Mrs. os-
good, following her divorce. had It's
inceptiop at Palm Beach, Fla, In
L..
leave from Co. c, 312th Machine Gun
Battalion.
According to Osgood, Kuehling, n
dapper young man, well-dressed and
with polished manners, was the as
sociate of a number of women at the
fashionable resort, including a De-
troit girl He is reported to have
won $4,000 gambling mt the resort
md spent money like miiltOnafres
son.
The Detroit girl invited him to
visit her 10 he ever went to that city.
1t was a short time later when
Kuehling returned to his company at
Jacksonville, Fla, but developed
pneumonia He was sent to Walter
Reed Hospital where he later was
discharged after having been ad-
Judged mentally deficient.
Fearing to faye his friend here be-
cause of the unpleasant notoriety he
receivnc as the result of having
fexaped suicide In an effort to avoid
nsiHtary duty, Kuehling went to De-
troit, mtt his Palm Beach associate,
Who int .oduced him to Mrs. Osgood.
Mrs OsgoodNj suit for divorce
.rrnips her husband then was pend
Ing tri Al. Ii sSfmcd to be n cnse Of
love ~ frst sl0At, and after Mrs. Os-
xsod btsined her divorce she mnr-
RED 1.uehling mt Mount Clements.
Mieh., and returned to the Michigan
city n live.
Aifhough the divorce court had
swaI,ied Mrs. Osgood the custody Of
her hve-year-old son, after her mar
rfag 10 Kuehling she legally gave
her divorced husband the custody Of
the tIhild The couple then came to
washtn -ton to live, making their
home eust ACROSS the District line, at
the home Of Miss Cameron, in Wood
side.
Miss Cameron yesterday was inter
viewed at police headquarters by In