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

knelt down and shot herseII IA
SGrmised Wife Shot Self.
snow, Mr.. Eichelman, getting back
to when you returned and found her
dead. How could she have shot herself
SO that her knees would be under her
in that position?" Mr.. Barnett asked
the witness.
"The Lord only knows was the
reply. 6.
'YOu surmise that she oshot her
self?"
ayes
did you make search for the re-
volver when you came in and found
your wife dead" the prosecutor
queried. ss
mo" replied Eichelman, Il was too
excited,
Calls Neighbors, He says.
Eiehelman then stated that he broke
down and called the neighbors.
@. You called the neighbora by
standing in the front room and crying
out loud. Why didn't you go out and
give the alarm? A. don't know.
@. Did you call a doctor? A. NO.
l called my father and he misunGcc-
stood me- 1 asked him to bring a
doctor. @. Why didn't you call q
doctor? A. / knew it was no use. l
knew she was dead. Q. How did you
know she was dead? A. she was
lying still. Q. DID you ever sec q
person unconscious, but still alive
A. Yes. q. Did you examine her
heart7 A. Yes. q. Under her
clothes or outside? A Outside.
o. What did you. DO after you
found the body: A. l went into she
front room. and walked around.
A. Why didn't you rush out. and 81
CURE Of the neighbors who shot ynrr
wife7 A. l don't know.
Tells by Condition.
wifs1 4. She shot herself.
Q. How do you know she shot her
Se;f7 a. BY the conditions. @. Can
yoI COW tell the jury what made You
bslieve that she had shot. herself
a.. :. looked that way to me.
=. Don't you know that it is impos-
siblc for her to have fallen into the
position in which she was found ?
A. am not sure.
Q. Do you remember when officer
Amberlang came in what you were
doing? A. l felt grieved. Q. When
you found your wife dead did you ask
officer Amberlang to take charge !?
A. l think did.
@. Don't you know that you never
asked Amberlang to do any such
thing? A. / think / asked him to do
it. @. Your wife had a mild DISPOSE
ton? "A. Yes. @. Do you remem-
Der when Amberlang called the police ?
A. Yes. @. Do you remember that
you asked him not to call the police
A. / don't think / did. @. Will you
say yes or mo- A. l think / asked
Amberlang to help me. Q. If you
asked him that, why were you afraid
of the police. A. l wasn't. @. Isn't
it true that you were more worried
over yourself more than you were over
the fact that your wife had been killed?
A. was worried over my wife only.
Eichelman then told of having given
the alarm when he found his wife
dead He said that Mrs. Koehl had
come in and tried to comfort him, and
added that she had told him mot TO
take it so hard" @. - Who conn
forted you before Mrs. Koehl arrived?
A. No one,
Drawer Locked.
@. Do you remember Amberlang
asking you about where the gun was.
A. Yes. told him it was in the
dresser drawer. @. Do you know
that that dresser drawer was locked n
A. No sir, didn't know it. @. Did
you know where the gun was? A. No.
@. What made you think she had kill
ed herself with that gun? A. just
said she has killed herself in my own
mind, Q. Why? A. Because of con-
ditions. @. Did you ever see per-
son who had committed suicide sbes,
fore? A. No. @. And yet you
would take it upon yourself to say
that she had committed suicide?
A. thought so. @. Have you any
other statement that you can make.
A. No. O. Can you account for you,
as husband of IA years seeing your
wife's body lying there and not maxi.
ing any effort to call doctor, or the
police? A. don't understand.
@. Doesn't it strike you as peculiar
that you didn't spread an alarm JIM
medistely? A. l was shocked and.
not in full possession of my faculties.
''NNhy No Alarm?"
@. Why didn't you spread the
alarm instead of standing near the
door with your head on your arm
moaning loudly? A. l wasn't near
the door. @. Wasn't that where
Mrs. Koehl found you when she came.
in? A. No, was in the dining
room. @. Now Mrs. Koehl says you
were near the door and you say YOU
were in the dining room. Who is
right, you or Mrs. Koehl? A. l am.
Q. Did you go with Mrs. Koehl
when she went to look at your wife
A Yes. Q. In the room? A. Yes.
@, Did you go in the room? A. No,
Q. Isn't it fact that you never
moved from the spot where Mrs. Koehl
first saw you, until she returned?
A. No. ID.
@. Then what happened? A. Mrs.
Koehl said, "What happened, Mr..
Eichelman,p and said. "She has COM
mitted suicide" Q. How do you
know that it was suicide A. BY the
conditions.
Q. Don't you know that it would be
impossible for anyone holding gun
in their right hand to have sent bull
sss straight Through their body?
All don't know anything about it.
@. You have had considerable ex-
perience with firearms? A. Yes
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