The Washington times., 1920-09-11

and OF his insistence thAt they always
be together.
In explaining why he never left his
wife out OF his sight. kuehiing ae-
clared:
.wh~s we were ~.rrsed We agreed
that We would always be together
and We have been"
After telling frequent qusrreling
between the couple. Miss Cameron de-
clared that. on one occasion. just be-
fore they left her house in July last.
kuskiinH visiestIy setsed his wife by
the throat asd threw her iste their
room. s
Mrs. Cameron also told the detec-
tives that Mrs. Kuehling had told her
that she lived in dread OF her hus-
band because OF his ill-treatment and
threats. IL was her opinion that
Kuehling was madly jealous OF his
wife and feared outside influences
would separate them. cutting OF his
income.
IL is said that KuehIinE did not de
n days work from the day of his nSr-
riaxe 20 the Detroit heiress. Hts
wife's ipceas was approximately
900 . month.
MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE.
Maintaining his innocence, declar-
ing that his wife was accidentally
drowned when the canoe he was pad
ding mysteriously capsined, Kuehling
showed a willingness yesterday to ac-
company detectives to the scene OF
the drowning and assist In every way
to recover the body.
At the spot where he claims the
canoe overturned, kuehIing, In q cool
manner, gave many evasive replies n
TO the actual scene of the drownink.
Detectives today say there was no
eyewitness to the woman's death, and
the only person found by the police
who claims to have seen the couple In
the canoe Is a Miss Davis. who con-
ducts a delicatessen store on a float
up the river. She was the last per-
son who saw the woman alive. the
police say.
When stepping from the motor boat
yesterday at the point where he says
his wife was drowned. Kuehling
slipped and nearly fell into the
whirling eddies.
Look out. Kuehling, don't fall in"
warned one Of the detectives.
DIDN'T WORRY HIM.
We'll, II 1 do, 1t won't make any
difference; then I'll be over with it,"
he rejoined. apparently seriously.
Again when Kuehling. for about the
fiftieth time. was relating how the
canoe capsized. he was asked II he
could swim a little" why he did not
try to save his wife.
II did try to save her life. but l
was glad I could swim enough to save
my own life' said the prisoner.
"When i found ! was in about three
feet OF water reached under the
overturned canoe, hoping to be sble
to seize my wife. I did see something
II thought II was her hs'r, but II
turned out what ] had was her tiger
skin coat. I never saw her come {"
the surface. And i don't remember
hearing her scream. She must have
gone down no suddenly thst her cries
were drowned. I cried and help came.
I'm telling the truth. I see no oc-
casion for all this investigation.
am going to get out Of this mess"
The police declare 1t unusual that
Kuehling, after having been rescued
and made a change Of clothes at a
nearby houseboat. did not return to
the scene of the drowning and try to
find his wife's body.
They say he leaped into a motor
boat and, with two Of his rescuers,
rushed to Dempsey's boathouse wharf.
at Aqueduct bridge, directly under the
spot on the river span where, Decem :
ber IL, 1917, the prisoner left his
suitcase. overcoat and a note that he
would be a suicide when the articles
were found. He was in the machine
gun company then. and the suicide
proved a hoax.
LEAPS FROM BOAT.
Arriving at the wharf with his
rescuers, KuehIins they say leape.l
from the motor boat, apparently
without concern, and shouted n he
waved his >hands "Hello. Dempseyi'
He then Ieaped In his dead wife'S
Dodge sedan and metored with q
police to the Seventh precinct police
station to see his brother, IN officer
of that precinct.
His story Of the accidental drown.
ing Of his wife was satisfactory to
the police and they permitted him 20
go to his home.
When detectives, after an investi-
cation of the alleged drowning, went
to the Kuehling home at 4 o'clock the
next morning, they found him in bed
He showed no emotion over his vv1fe's
death, they saw.
Brought to Police Headquarters
Kuehling was put through severe
examinations, but stubbornly main
tanned his innocence then as well as
now
Detectives today found on = sand
beach, Benr Catfish Cove, charred
wod and ashes, showing that a nre
Ind been recently built. The detec.
tives believed that 1t was here that
kuehling and his wife ate the lunch
they took along with them.
At first Kuehling said he and his
wife never went ashore. Today, when
asked off-handedly by Detective Swee-
ney:
How long were you and your wife
on shore eating your lunch ?"- Kueh-
ling replied: "About half an hour
Then you were on land with your
wife?" shot the detective.
"No, no. we were not on land.
mean we put the nose OF the canoe In
the sand and ate our lunch in the
boat
The police say they could not have
sat in the canoe because OF the
whirling eddies, which would have
swept II away unless II had been
pulled high and dry on the shore
whether = strange coincidence or
not, the detectives found near the
chnrred wood two clippings from
washington newspaperss One re-