The Washington times., 1920-02-01
How the Graves of His
Wealthy Mother--in-Law and
Others Are Being Opened
and Searched for Evidence to
Prove What the Doctor S;

Again Mrs. Perry fell Ill, anu thiS~ time
she, too, died. Before the neighbors had
fairly recovered from the shock OF her
death, Alfred Duties. Sr., the father OF
Mrs Duffies,s second husband, took to her
bed and died.
Curiously enough the cemetery in Marke-
san adjoins the Duties homestead. II is
only a step from the front steps OF the
house to the acreage of the dead. and the
family burying plot, boasting one of the
cemetery's most conspicuous monuments,
is in full view of the windows.
The last corpse to be carried from the
Duties home to grave next door was that
of Mrs. Nettie Duties, the mother OF the
doctors wife. Her death was surprise to
everybody, for she was not an old woman.
and she had seemed in unusually vigorous
health In fact, at the time she was sud
denly taken i'll she was contemplating
third marriage. =
Apparently she had had the best care.
Her son-in-law, DR.. Freudenberg. was at
her bedside night and day and trained
nurse was also in attendance. But all the
efforts which the doctor put forth with
appearance of conscientious zeal were OF
no avail in relieving the bladder trouble
from which she suffered. Solutions which
he injected into the bladder to ailay the
woman's sufferings cply increased them,
and she finally died in great agony.
The general sorrow over Mrs. Du ;ies's
untimely death was. soiiened somewhat by
the knowledge that her daughter, the doc
tors wife, was now the richest woman in
the county. Mrs. Freudenberg has always
been very popular in the neighborhood and
everybody was glad to know that she was
the possessor of generous fortune.
Mrs. Duties had for. years been rich
woman. And her wealth had been largely
increased by the property to which she had
fallen heir when her parents and her late
bsuband's father died: Now all this was
Mrs. Freudenberg's- fortune OF 100000
consisting of considerable cash in bank, the
finest farm home in Green Lake County,
and several hundred acres Of rich land.
But those who supposed that Mrs. Dur
fies's life history was closed book when
the frozen clods of earth finally covered
her coffin reckoned without her brother,
Wilfred e. Perry
Mr.. Perry had long entertained feel
ing of dislike for DR.. .Freudenberg, the
pbysician who had come to Markesan pen
niless and unknown and who had becomc
through his marriage and through the sub
seouent deaths in his wife's family a man
Of wealth and prominence. And several
things which attracted his notice during
his sisters last illness convinced him that
the causes OF her death ought to be gone
into further.
With persistence and skill worthy OF
trained criminal investigator he started
digging into the matter. He had not been
digging long before he uncovered circum-
stances 80 odd that when they we're told to
the county authorities they promptly or
dered Mrs. Duffies's body exhumed for ex-
animation.
The strongest link In Mr.. Perry's chain
Of suspicions was deposition which he re-
ceiyed from Mrs. Grace Brehl, trained
nurse In her deposition Il is alleged that
Mrs Brehl swore that instead of the sooth-
ing remedies which DR.. Freudenberg pre-
tended to be administering TO Mrs. Duties
he had injected into her bladder power
full. highly irritating solution Of mustard
The coroners jury brought In the fol-
lowing verdict:
"That the death of Nettie Duties was
caused by foul play by an injection into
her bladder OF some powerful substance
which. according to the pathologist and
other testimony, was solution containing
mustard made and injected by one DR.. J,
A. Freudenberg"
II the conclusions OF the pathologist and
the coroners jury and the district attorney
who caused DR.. Freudenberg's arrest are
correct, and this really was murder, It was
a crime so cruel for its hopeless vlcum