The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-27
HAD BEEN DEAD
FOR TWO DAYS
Coroner Probes Two More
Deaths Under Mysteri-
GUS Circumstances.
BOTH FOUND in BED
Edward Malm and Eugene
Oggerino Found Dead at
Same Time Monday.

Coroner Joseph Friend is today
probing two more deaths under mys-
FERROUS circumstances following the
finding of two men in their respective
rooms late Monday afternoon. Both
discoveries were made practically at
the same time.
At five o'clock Monday afternoon
police received call from Max Fisher
proprietor of the Hotel Orth, stating
that a man had been locked in his
room for two days without stir
signed to investigate and rapping on
the door was found to be ineffective.
The door was locked from the inside
and the keyhole plugged with paper.
Breaks in the Door.
The officer broke down the door to
look upon one of the most grueso ONE
sights ever presented in Kenosha
Lying on the floor beside the bed in
the room was Edward Malm, a, his
body turned black. The room was
filled with the foul stencil of human
corpse turning 'ripe." The room
showed appearances of having been
carefully sealed up from the inside
Every crack was wadded with bits of
paper. The side of the door had long
strips covering the entire length. The
transom was damned with cloth.
The window was closed and the cur
tains were drawn.
The remains were ordered taken to
the Hansen morgue where post
norton was later ordered by Coroner
Friend. Dr. A. L. Christopherson and
H. l.. Rose performed the autopsy
and came to the conclusion that death
was by suffocation.
Motive is a Mystery.
The coroner indicated that he would
order an inquest held in the death if
further investigation should bear out
the evidence which at present tends
to show suicide as the motive for the
mans careful arrangements. He was
clothed only in his underwear and the
rest of the room was undisturbed.
It was learned that Malm had paid
his room rent for a week in advance
early Saturday evening and no one
had seen or heard of him since that
time, until his dead body was found
in his room. According to hotel Of
ficials the man had appeared in ex-
cellent health and no outward reason
for his acts could be seen.
The man is known to have sister,
Miss Ada Malm, living at 1407 Will
son avenue, Chicago, and she has
been notified.
Second Death on West Side.
At about the same hour on Monday
afternoon the police received another
call from % North Rowland avenue.
Here Eugene Oggerino, 40, was found
dead in his bed at the place where
he roomed. The circumstances under
which the second discovery was made
were entirely different from those
under which Malm was found. 1t APP
peared that Oggerino had gone to bed
for a nap and had died in his sleep,
probably from heart trouble. He had
come home from bakery where he is
employed at one o'clock Monday after
noon and at five when he was to have
been awakened he was found dead.
Oggerino is known to have a wife
and family in Italy, and son living
at 266 West 25th street, Chicago The
son has been notified of the fathers
death. The call to the police Office
was answered by Police Captain Emil
Clausen, and Officers John McGivern
and Paul Rohde.
Ed. Claude Malm was born in Swe-
den, the son of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles F. Malm and came to this
country with his parents when a small
child. He lived in Kenosha for the
greater part of his life and was
interested in the Grant Planning mill
in Kenosha.
The deceased is survived by Mrs.
Samuel Anderson, Los Angeles, Cert
rude Malm, Los Angeles, sisters, and
Alvin Malm, Los Angeles, a brother,
and Miss Ada Malm and Miss Resale
Main, sisters, of Chicago.
Funeral services for E. C. Malm will
be held on Wednesday morning at ten
o'clock from the Hansen funeral home
with interment following in Green
Ridge cemetery.
Funeral services for Eugene Og-
gerino have not yet been completed
and these will be announced on We'd
nesdayr