The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-17

and found Mr.. Eichelman leaning with
his head on his arm, sobbing. In re-
Spouse to her question of what had
happened, he replied: my wife HIS
shot herself"
! Mrs. Koehl stated that she had then
gone into the bedroom and there
found the body lying face up, IN a
| three foot space between the dresser
and the bed. The husband meanwhile
stayed in the front room where she
I had found him. She said that the wo,
man was shot through the heart, but
that she didn't see revolver. She
! stayed in the room for two or three
seconds, she said. She said that the
I bed was low bed. Mrs. Eichelman s
head was toward the head of the
bed, she said.
She then went out out and asked
Mr.. Eichelman to help her lift the
body on the bed, but the husband re-
fused, saying that he could not touch
/ it. He kept moaning and then began
pacing the room, saying: "Oh, my God,
/ this is terrible. I'll never get over
| this"
Calls Amberlangs In.
! She said that she then went to the
/ Amberlangs, intending to- get Mrs.
Amberlang to help her put the woman
on the bed Mr.. Amberlang was just
coming from the back of the house
and joined them. She said that the
three of them went back to the house
and that Mr.. Amberlang went into the
room, and that he found the gun.
In reply to the questions of Dis
trict Attorney Barnett, she reiterated
that they seemed to be a very devoted
couple. Then she told of Mrs. Eichel-
mans trouble with her teeth. She said
that she knew that she had been going
to Milwaukee regularly for several
months, and that the teeth, while they
caused her no sharp pain, were a
source of constant annoyance. Very
often after trip to Milwaukee, she
would be confined to her bed for the
next day.
| Mr.. Koehl then took the stand. He
said that he was consulting engineer
| for the board of education. He told
of the location of the various build
! ings. Then he added that he had just
| left the house with his car, but that
he had puncture block away from
the house, and that he had been fixing
tire when the public safety ambu-
lance passed. His first thought was
that there had been a cave-in where
the men were working in the bitches
in front of his house. He returned and
found what had happened.
| Opens New Field.
Mrs. Charles Amberlang gave the
first hints of family trouble between
Eichelman and his wife y when she
took the stand. She stated that she
had known the husband all her life,
and that she had been an intimrte
friend of the dead woman, ever since
they moved there in 1919.
| She said that the wife had told her
| in confidence, that when Ben was
sober he was wonderful, but thai when
he had an "edge" on, he was mean.
She also stated that Mrs. Eichelman
had confided to her that her husband
was of an intensely jealous disposi-
ton. How often he showed this, she
ibid not know, but added that she had
known that there had been trouble
there. Mrs. Amberlang also 1estified
that Mr.. Eichelman had often passed
her home in an intoxicated condition.
+ "Mrs. Amberlang, would you say that
/ Mrs. Eichelman ever felt that her life
was in danger ?" District, Attorney
Barnett asked. The witness hestitatcd
| for moment and then replied "No.".
81 do know, however, that on several
occasions, they. got so NAL they
choked each other" the witness said.
"Sweet Little Woman"
Asked by Mr.. Barnett what sort of
la woman Mrs. Eichelman was, Mrs.
Amberlang replied that "She was the
sweetest little woman i have ever
known.
@. Would you say that she was the
sort of a woman who would be easily
led to commit suicide.
A. No.
Mrs. Amberlang then told of con-
versations which she had had with the
dead woman when stories appeared in
the paper of various women taking
poison and killing themselves and that
on these occasions the dead woman
had expressed the. opinion that wo-
men were foolish to do such things.
She said that instead of holding any
grudge, she had worshipped her hus-
| band.
Asked by the district attorney if
There had been any recent domestic
troubles. Mrs. Amberlang replied that
last Monday the dead woman had told
her that Ben had been awfully jeal-
Gus when she had ridden home with
her sister, and a gentleman friend of
her sisters, the night before. She said
Mrs. Eichelman told her that "Ben
acted awfully nasty"
She said that as she had gotten the
story, Mrs. Eichelman's sister, Mrs.
Ella Krause, a widow, was moving
and that her friend and she accom-
panied by Mrs. Eichelman had brought
some pictures back to the Eichelman
home. Mrs. Amberlang stated that she
last saw Mrs. Eichelman alive on We'd
nesday, when both CHANGED to be in
their back yards, and had waved to
each other
Curious Blood Spot.
Mrs. Amberlang then told of Curl
Gus blood spot on the bed sheet in the
room where the body was found. She
said that it was near the edge of the
| bed, which had not been made up.
When they got into the house after
having been called by Mrs. Koehl, she
said they found Eiehelman in the
front room. She went into the de attn