The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-01
FIVE MYSTERIES
STILL UNSOLVED
Coroner's Report Recalls
Battling Mysteries of
Past Year.
WE'RE MANY SUICIDES
Lack of Employment Is Blamed
for Increase in Suicides Dur
ing the Past Year.


efforts of the officials thus far have
failed to solve them, are recalled in
the report of Coroner Truman T. Park
er which has been presented to the
county board of supervisors showing
the work which he has done during the
past year. Of these mysteries two
may yet be solved; they are in regard
to the manner of the death of Kasimir
Gintoft, whose remains were exhumed
during the past month in an effort to
establish how he met his death three
years ago, and to the way in which
John Neubauer, whose name is strange
ly mixed with the Gintoft tragedy, and
who was found mortally shot through
the abdomen on the eve of his arrest
in connection with this case, met his
death.
The inquests on these two cases are
still pending and are to be continued
in hearings to be renewed on Decem-
Der 10th. The coroner hopes by these
hearings to clear up both of these
mysteries.
No Trace in Others.
In the other three cases, Coroner
Parker and other officials have given
up hope of ever finding a clew which
might clear up the circumstances con-
corning them. The first of these re-
fers to the body of an unknown child,
few weeks old, which was found froz-
en- and unclothed in cornfeld in the
town of Pleasant Prairie on January
18th. At the time there were numer-
Gus rumors of closed motor car and
Of a well-dressed woman who had been
seen leaving it in the neighborhood of
the place where the dead child was
found but none of these rumors could
be verified and no trace of the identity
of the child was established. The cor
oner's report declares that the body
was murdered"
Very similar is the second of the I'M
solved mysteries. 1t refers to the find
ing of the body of an abandoned child
near Kenosha. The details of the case
were never made public. There were
no marks to lead the coroner to be-
lieve that the baby had been murdered
and it was left unsolved when all eff
forts failed to reveal any trace of its
mother.
Found in Farmers Yard.
The details Of the case now made
public, reveal that on July 18th last,
the body of baby boy, probably born
dead, was found in the yard Of farm
house about a mile south of Kenosha,
on the Sheridan road. The farmer had
been to Kenosha during the evening
and returned to his home about mid
night In the yard, wrapped in swad-
ding clothes, was found the limp body
A thorough investigation was carried
on by officials at the time, but no trace
was found of those who left the body
there 1t was finally given up in the
belief that the child was abandoned by
Chicagoans. The body was buried at
the coroner's direction in the paupers'
field in the Green Ridge cemetery.
Stranger Killed Here.
The other mystery of the year was
the killing of an unidentified man who
was struck by a Chicago and North
western train on February 22nd. All
efforts to establish his identity were
futile and after all clews had been
traced down futilely he was buried in
an unmarked grave in the potter's
| field
The report shows that the year has
had many accidents and other causes
for deaths Of violent nature. There
are ninety-one cases in all a number
much in excess of other years.
| In the entire list only one murder is
charged absolutely. This is the rase
of James Morrone, who was Shoe lwn
| by his brother, Herman Morrone, now
serving time IN the states prison on a
charge of fourth degree manslaughter.
Speed Took It's Toll.
Throughout the record is written
the fact that speed took its toll in Ke-
nosha county. There were sixteen
deaths which in one way or another
could be traced back to excessive
speed. Many of these came in railway
accidents, the most notable one of this
kind being the tragedy of June 21st
when Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest G. Ander-
son, Mrs. Sarah Meyers and little
Viola E. Heating were killed when the
motor car in which they were riding
was struck by speeding St. Paul train
at the Truesdell crossing.
] Fire also exacted heavy toll during
the year for in that time seven were
burned to death, a numbe: higher than
it has been in many years. Drowning
accounted for nine deaths, of which all
but one were declared to be accidental
the other a suicide.
| More Suicides Than Usual.
The report also reflects the unem-
ployment which was declared to be the
cause of some Of the suicides, of which
there was total of seven throughout
the year. Of these one chose drown
| ing as a method to meet death, one
cut his wrists and bled to death, q
third died from self-inficted burns
one was drowned, one asphyxiated, and
two died from self-inficted bullet
wounds. There is still some doubt
whether or not John Newbauer died a
suicide and the inquest may bring
down a verdict on that question.
The report recalls some of the
strangest sudden deaths which have
occurred in the history Of Kenosha
! One of these is the death of Arthur J
Nelson, an ex-soldier, who died from
drinking too much ice water while he