Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18
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John Jenik, SIS, Peshtigo, who for "a
hours was held while an investigation
was made into the death of his wife
Sunday night at their farm home near
that city, was released Tuesday night
by Dist Atty. H. F. Murphy. The dis
trict attorney issued statement in
which he declared that the joint in
yestigation of the prosecutor and cor
oner had established beyond doubt
that the woman came to her death ac
cidentally Wounds and bruises which
Z, marked the woman's body were -ex-
l1iained as natural results of her fall
Ling into an eight-foot cistern few
rods from the house and the strug-
CLOS which preceded death. CorOnor's
physicians who conducted the autopsy
gave the district attorney typewrit-
zen copy of their findings, which in
Guided an abnormal quantity of water
in the lungs, fracture of the third
vertebfa in the neck and catalogue
of the bruises and cuts which, they
said could have been received from
the rough ice coated walls of the crude
cistern.
A Jury of IL men and one woman
was chosen Tuesday to decide the fate
of Alma Kaczor, 26, immigrant girl
who is charged by the state with the
murder of her namelesS infant daugh-
ter at the home of Edward Kortendeck,
Lake Mills, Feb. Is 1924 Judge George
Grimm is presiding at the trial which
is being held at Jefferson. John j. VOL
let, Jefferson architect, the first wit
ness called by the state, explained the
plans of the Kortendeck home, where
the girl had been employed and where
the body of the infant was found
crammed between an icebOx and the
wal lof the bathroom. DR.. Philip
Leicht, Lake Mills, told of finding the
child's body wrapped in cloth behind
the icebox He testified the bathroom
floor was spattered with blood, and
declared the infant a fully developed
girl baby, weighing 71a pounds. The
child had been born alive, the wit
ness asserted. The girl is expected to
take the stand in her own defense.
Albert Olson, farmer living in
Fulton, is in hospital in GAINESVILLE
with injuries that may prove fatal.
Sheriff G. Burtis and his deputies are
searching the county for the vampire
motorist that struck the man and then
Speeded on. Olson, who was helping
a neighbor move his furniture to Be-
lott, was walking in the highway be-
side his team and wagon when an I'M
identified motorist, also coming south
on the highway, turned out to pass
him. The auto struck Olson, hurting
him with tremendous force against
his heavily loaded wagon. The auto
driver sped on without so much as
stopping to learn whether or not he, or
she, had killed Olson. Motorists who
came along shortly afterwards found
Olson in the road in a pool of blood,
unconscious and apparently almost
dead. He was picked up and hurried
to the GAINESVILLE hospital where it
was found his injuries were danger
GUS The injuries comprise three frac-
lures of the lower jaw, two fractures
of the upper jaw, a broken nose, a
broken cheek bone, a fracture of the
temple bone in the skull, and another
fracture of the frontal bone of the
skull. 1t was said by Olson's physi-
clans that his condition is extremely
grave, but that he may live.
A desire for fine clothes is believed
to have brought a girl who gave her
name as Margaret Conery, 10, and her
home as Fond du Lac, into the hands
of the law at Oshkosh. She was ar
raigned in municipal court Wednesday
on charge of forgery. The girl was
arrested at a store where she previ-
ouSly had purchased a coat and hat
and given a check for $38 She then
went to shoe store, bought a pair of
shoes, which she also is said to have
paid for with a check. At another
store she purchased a pair of stock
ingS in the same manner Next she is
reported to have visited a beauty par
Tor, where she paid for her services
with cash. By the time all these mat
ters had been attended to, the propri-
etor of the coat store had tried to
cash the $3S check and found it to be
on good. The girl, who in the mean
time donned all her newly acquired
finery had for some reason returned
to the store, where she was recog-
niZed, and held while police were
called Word was received from Fond
du Lac Thursday morning that the
girl forged Is checks there.
Finding that w. E. Amidon, Hart
ford jeweler, had maliciously captured
the love of Mrs. Thomas Melcher, a
circuit court jury at West Bend award
ed Thomas Melcher, Hartford tailor,
the sum of $4,000 as damages in his
suit for $4,000 against the jeweTer
for alienation of the affections of Mrs
Melcher. The jury, however, exonerat-
ed the Hartford jeweler of illicit re-
lations with the woman limited at sew
eral times during the course of the
case. The verdict was returned after
five hours of elaboration. Judge c.
NJ. Dawson, Beaver Dam, presided at
the suit.
Enough gasoline was shipped into
wisconsin during 1924 to permit use
of more than so gallons per person,
figures compiled by the oil inspector |
show. The total gasoline inspected by |
state agents during the year was
slightly more than 212 900 gallons. /
Kerosene shipments were about 3d. |
100000 gallons.
Edwin Powers and Earl frost who /
were arrested following a sensational /
automobile chase by the police at /
Green Bay recently, were sentenced I
a+;x-oIv IN 10 wears in WauDIn 4