The Washington times., 1920-09-11
AFRAID, WIFE
!. WROTE SISTER
Husband to Seek His Freedom
. Today on Writ Of Habeas
" Corpus.
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VOi quo.
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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. ~.
"I'd 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. "fve got
TO go back and tell him the truth"
\ The child is only Ave years old
-Its been pretty tough on me since
I my wife divorced me-" he said. IT
was all a Misunderstanding and l be-
beyed she would come back to her
boy, II not to me. We have heard OF
lKuehlings i'll treatment OF her.
.Why, they had only been married
few weeks when ne slapped her
while In a street car In Detroit. A
number of men would have handied
him roughly, but she fnterfereo'
They went to the"ter anu sne
walked out. Ihey "ShS
for n month, but 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 wroS~ her Will, making
our son the sole beneficiary OF her
estate in case of death. Whether
she has made another will since COM
ing to Washington l do not know.
"KuehIing hsd a strange influence
over my divorced wife. cannot un-
derstand it."
Keuhling denies that he knew his
wife contemplated filing divorce pro-
\ ceedings against him.
WIFE HAD PREMONITION.
That Mrs. Kuehling had a premoni-
ton 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, IL Is
said, failed to complete the negotia-
/ ton for the purchase of the nome OF
Miss Lulu K.S Cameron, Fenwick
lane. Woodside, where they had
boarded for several months.
81 don't think 1 will live Mt the
Cameron home because 1t Ii back. on
the road and 1 fenr that something
could happen to me without anyone
knowing of it,, she declared to an
intimate.
Mrs, Cameron had entered suit for
breach of contract against MRS: hueh-
ling as the result Of her failure 10
purchase the house.
IT also developed yesterday that
.pIy a few days before Mrs. kueh-
ling met her death, her husband had
asked her to advance enough money
to buy revolver. She refused IL Ii
said.
NET AT PALM BEACH.
: The romance eliminating in the
marriage Of Kuehling and Mrs. os-
good. following her divorce. had its
Inception at Palm Beach, Fla, In
1917, while Kuehling was on French
leave from Co. c, 312th Machine Gun
Battalion.
According to Osgood, Kuehling,
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 $1,000 gambling mt the resort
md spent money like n millionaires
son.
The Detroit girl invited him to
visit her l. he ever went to that city.
1t was 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 nfteY having been ad-
Judged mentally deficient.
Fearing to faJe his friend here be-
cause ct the unpleasant notoriety he
received as the result of having
fesxbed suicide in an effort to avoid
mIHtnry duty, Kuehling went to De-
troit, NIT his Palm Beach associate,
Who inf .oduced him to Mrs. Osgood.
Mrs. OsgoodA, suit for divorce
axainr her husband then was pend
ing tri Al. IL -Ssmed to he n cnse Of
love a frst sight, and after Mrs. Os-
gecd btsined her divorce she mar
RED tuehling mt Mount Clements.
HIIch, and returned to the Michigan
city n live.
Although the divorce court had
Z nwaf,ied Mrs. Osgood the custody OF
her tveyear-old son. after her mar
riag 20 Kuehling she legally gave
her divorced husband the custody Of
the child The couple then came to
washtn Fton to live, making their
homo Susl ACROSS the District line, at
the home Of Miss Cameron. in Wood
side.
Miss Cameron yesterday was inter
viewed at police headquarters by In