Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-08-20
WEIRD MURDER
SEEN IN SLAIN
WOMAN AND SON
Husband of Milwaukee Mother
Said to Be in In
diana.
BODIES FOUND ON BEACH

MILWAUKEE. Aug 2O.-Positive
Identification of the young woman and
the 7-year-old boy. the finding of whose
bodies beside Lake Michigan WedneS-
day startled the little town of Cudahy,
has been made by two men at whose
homes the woman and child had lived.
The woman was Mrs. Frances Patti.
whose husband is supposed to he WORK
ing somewhere in Indiana, and the child
was her son Frank.
The identi1cations were made Carl
Roher and William H voigt of this city.
The dead woman and her son had
roomed in the formers home since last
Friday, and previously, for a period of
about three months, they had occupied
a room in the Voight house.
Roher said the mother and child,
whom he had known for a year past,
eft their room in his home last Monday
morning.
They departed hand in hand. the wom-
an apparently respondent. as she had
been for months before her disappear
anee.
Mrs. Carl Roher, in statement to
the police substantiated her husbands
assertion that Mrs. Patti was depressed.
She told of a conversation she had
had with her roomer last Saturday
morning, when Mrs. Patti had come to
her, crying.
I'm terribly worried" she had said
between her sobs. And a moment later
she added:
'.NY WORRIES ARE
VERY GREAT
MY worries are very great
No indication was given by the wom-
an. however, of the nature of her trou-
hles.
Monday morning, as she departed from
the Roher home, she turned her heaG
as she walked down the street and
called back, her voice breaking as she
did so:
''Goodby; take good care of yourself"
Some features of Roher's Identification,
however, have puzzled the police.
He said, for instance, that Mrs. Patti
was only % years old.
The woman whose body lies in the
county morgue is obviously ten years
older
Nor does the name provided by Roher
tally with the initials i. F." found in
the ring worn by the dead woman.
Taking these facts into consideration
and as well some of the circumstances
of the finding and condition of the bod
les. the ponce are working on Lne theory
that the woman and her child were the
victims of a well planned and cleverly
executed murder.
THREE BULLETS
ENTERED BODY.
1t is pointed out that three bullets en-
tered the body of the woman, any one OF
which would have been fatal.
Another circumstance made much Of by
the police theorists is the fact that little
blood was found.
This supports the possibility that the
bodies may have been carried to the spot
and laid out in the orderly positions in
which they were found, side by side.
The police are following closely the
cIew offered by the 22-Canber revolver
found near the bodies.
Late yesterday it was established that
the gun had been sold by the John
Pritzlaff Hardware Company, 81 West
Water street, Cudahy, to Joseph T. Ston-
werl, 93S kinnickinnic avenue.
Inquiry revealed that Stollwerk was
ont Of town, but was expected back to-
day.
Despite the efforts Of the police to
pursue further the murder theory, or
uner Franklin has decided the evidence
in his hands points conclusively TO muir
der and suicide by the woman.
He announced that no inquest would
be held on the cause Of the deaths.