The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-16
Edward Kruger, Chicago
War Veteran, Killed in
Auto Crash.
COMPANION ESCAPES
Walter Larmee, Companicn of
Victim, MiraculousIy Escapes
with Slight Injuries.


a tragic end Of their short-lived ac-
mountaineering Saturday afternoon
just before 1 o'clock when Edward
K.ueger, aged 80, 1925 West 61st
street, Chicago, was instantly killed,
and Walter Larmee Of Salem, pain
fully injured, when the automobile in
which they we're riding turned two
somersaults on the Bristol road about
one half mile south Of the village of
Bristol
They had met but a half hour be-
fore at the Singer Tavern in Trevor,
according to Larmee who told Coroner
Joseph Friend that he did not even
know the name of his newly made
friend, killed in the crash. The ident-
ity of the victim was not established
until Sunday morning when Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Kruger Of Chicago,
came to Kenosha and identified the
remains as those of their son, who
had left home almost a year ago and
had let his relatives know little OF
his whereabouts since that time.
Gar turned over Twice.
Andrew Tuers, farmer living south
of Bristol, was the hrst to reach the
scene of the accident after the crash
and was the first to aid the injured
man. Tuers was riding in a milk
wagon toward Bristol when he saw the
wrecked car at the side of the road a
short distance ahead of him. He did
b not see the accident and it may have
ccurred sometime before he reached
scene.
As he approached the wrecked car
he found the body of Kruger face
down on the highway; his skull was
fractured and his neck broken. Tracks
in the highway indicated that he had
been hurled from the wheel of the car,
a Hudson car, when it had turned
over.
Larmee, badly dazed as result Of
the crash, was wandering aimlessly
about near the car. He had a frac-
tured shoulder blade and other in
juries.
Taken To Doctors Office.
Tuers put the body Of the victim
in his wagon and assisted Larmee al
Dr. F. J. Auwers, who pronounced the
Chicago man dead and who gave medi-
cal care to Larmee. Meanwhile the
sheriff's Office was notified of the &C
cident and Coroner Friend and a
deputy FASTENED to the scene to start
an Investigation.
An air of mystery was thrown over
the accident when Larmee was unable
to tell the identity of his companion
other than to say that he had known
him under the name of myers" end
was just riding with him.
where were you going?' the coro-
ner asked. Larmee refused to an
swer. He also refused to make any
statement regarding how fast the car
was travelling when the crash occur
red He thought that it turned over
twice and that the driver was hurled
from the car during the second somer-
sault
Start An Investigation.
Another angle Of mystery developed
when investigation revealed that the
license plate carried on the car 472-
855, ILL.,, '25--had been originally is
sued to George Powers, Lakewood,
ILL.,, and was for a Ford touring car
and not as large a car as the one in
he crash. This led to the sending
out of police messages in an effort
to identify both the dead driver and
the car.
These messages resulted in the posi-
tive identification of the body at the
Crossin Mortuary to which it had been
taken. As yet however, the irregu-
larities in regard to the license on the
car and other questions have not
been cleared.
1t is thought that the car was being
operated at a high rate of speed, and
that it turned over as a result of
striking a rut or some rock in the
road. It was hurled to the side of the
road badly wrecked as a result of the
two somersaults which it is believed
to have taken.
Mother Tells of Victim.
Mrs. Herman Kruger, the mother
of the victim of the accident, sobbed
out a pitiful story, as she identified
her son at the Crossing Mortuary
Sunday morning.
eyes, it's Eddie" she said. "1've
worried so about him since last May,
l was afraid he would meet with death
somewAy like this. / haven't seen
him since last Christmas--he came
home for just one little hour that day
to bring me pair of slippers. That
was the f1rst that had seen him since
last May, when he left telling us not
to worry-'he would make money
enough to get along someway'."
She said that he had been in the
army in war days and that his leaving
home had come up after he had spent
all of the money given him by the
government in a comparatively short
time. She had spoken to him about
1t and he had left.
Had Been a Chauffeur.
They had learned in roundabout
way that he had been working as a
chauffeur in Chicago for a short time
and later had been driver for taxi
cab company. They had no idea what
was his mission in Kenosha county,
Coroner Friend called a coroner's
jury on Sunday to view the remains so
that the body might be taken to Chi
cago Immediately. The funeral SER
vices will be held in Chicago probably
on Tuesday.
Walter Larmee, the occupant of the
car who escaped serious injury and
Gust Singer, proprietor of the tavern
at Trevor, where the men had met
have been notified to come to Kenosha
for the inquest.