The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-13
FAIL TO PLACE
BLAME FOR DEATH
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paralyzed drunk and asking for help
to get the family home. There were
s little children in the car besides the
husband and wife, who we found out
later were Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bow
ers.
Offers to Drive Car.
christensen spoke up and offered
to drive the car for her husband and
see that they got home alright. Mrs.
Bowers went into my car and we drove
ahead expecting Christensen to fol-
low later with the Ford. They stopped
three times that know of as if they
were having trouble getting started.
About half mile further / turned
back and noticed that there were no
lights following US. Mrs. Christensen
said that someone had turned into
road, and Mrs. Bowers then said that
that was their home. We drove back
and found the Bowers car in the drive
way. got out of the car and offered
to help Bowers drive into his yard,
but he refused to let me. Then l no.
ticed that Christensen was nowhere
around. asked where he was and
heard little girl in the back Of the
car say that he got off way back by
the corner where Highway 81 and the
county line road intersect. We start
ed back but couldn't find Christensen.
We started back a second time and
looked around both sides of the road
thoroughly but we could see no sign
of Christensen. On the third time we
noticed two or three cars standing
at the side of the road. I asked one
of the drivers if they saw a man on
the road, and someone answered that
they had seen man in the car pretty
battered up. stopped to look at the
man and recognized Christensen al
though his face was covered with
blood"
Rushed to Hospital.
Catoor continued to tell the jury
how he had rushed the injured man to
the Kenosha hospital, and of his at
tempts to get some information from
Christensen on what had happened.
"On Sunday morning" according to
Catoor, christensen told US that he
thought that someone hit him and
knocked him down. This was at the
hospital. When I asked him who or
how he couldn't answer" Christensen
died at the hospital as a result of his
injuries on Thursday, Nov. 6, at noon.
Mrs. Marie Christensen, wife of the
deceased, was asked to testify. The
little woman showed clearly the marks
of grief, and her voice trembled with
emotion as she answered the questions
Of District Attorney Morris Barnett.
On several occasions she had to pause
in her story too overcome with tears
and sobs to 60 on. 1t seemed that at
every mention of the name of her hus-
band she suffered pang in the heart
as If every reference to his name
brought him back in image before her.
Invinted I'm to Drink.
Mrs. Christensen told essentially
the same story as Catoor. She added
the statement that when she asked
Bowers where her husband was he in
vited the party into his home to have
some of his wine. Mrs. Christensen
insisted that Mr.. Bowers was Every,
very drunk" She also added that on
Sunday morning she went to visit Bow
ers to find out what he had to say for
himself Of the incident. Bowers told
her, she said, that he might have
struck Christensen, but if he did he
didn't know about it, and that he was
sorry for what had happened. He
said that he didn't know anything of
what happened the night before.
Florence Bowers, age Z, the oldest
of the children of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Bowers, was called to the stand to tell
anything she might know. She was
able to shed little light on the case,
however, as was her brother, Albert,
age 6, who was also called to testify.
Both children remembered seeing
Christensen try to drive their car but
none could tell how he had left the car
before the time he was found injured
at the roadside.
Frank Bowers, whose home is in the
township of Yorkville, Racine county,
was then called to the witness stand.
Bowers was given to understand that
in view of the fact that a serious
charge Of assault with intent to do
great bodily harm was placed against
him in the Racine courts as a result of
this incident, that he could refuse to
testify on any question that might
tend to incriminate him. Bowers I'M
derstood that he was giving his testi-
mony purely voluntarily.
Tells of Drinks Here.
Bowers traced his movements of
Saturday, Nov. /, beginning with a
visit to the home of another brother
in-law, Joseph Neu, on Middle street
in Kenosha. Mrs. Bowers and the
children accompanied him. Bowers al
so told Of being accompanied by Geo.
Neu, his son, Matt, and Joseph Neu to
the German-American home on Grand
avenue. In the basement at the bar,
he told the court, he and George and
Joe each had four drinks apiece OF
"grape juice" On further cross-ex-
animation Bowers could not tell exact
ly what it was that he had had to
drink, but he did say that it had no
more effect on him than would four
drinks of water The stuff that was
served to them, he said, came out of
a pitcher or coffee pot. he didn't
know which.
Then Bowers told of making some
more trips down to tire store on
Milwaukee avenue and back to the Neu
home on Middle street. From here
the three men went to the German