Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-03-12
MISS RADEL,
GIRLS HOME,
FIVE YEARS
Defendant Charged
With Murder found
Guilty of Assault
With Intent to Kill
.(From Saturdays Daily

opened Miss Effie Radel Of Rich
land Center was sentenced to a
term of five years in the girls
home at Taycheedah by Judge E. !
w. Crosby. Miss Radel was charg
ed with the murder Of her infant
child and the jury returned a YER
dict of guilty of assault with in
tent to commit murder. The case
went to the jury at o'clock on
Friday and they returned with the
verdict six hours later. Miss Rad
els infant child died at Spring
Green a few hours after birth and
it was charged that she had injur
cd it, the skull especially, a hem
orrhage causing its death. The
trial began on Tuesday, occupying
two days in court.
When Miss Radel aged only
twenty six, stepped before the
Judge, and when asked if she I'M
derstood the verdict rendered by
teh jury. answered that she did.
When further asked If she had
anything to say, replied:
mo, sir"
Judge Crosby then told her the
members OF the jury had perform
ed their duty honorably and fairly,
that she had a wonderful defense
from her attorney, Carl N. Hill,
and that me had the sympathy of
District Attorney H. ]. Bohn. She
had good father and mother.
The court then said she did what
: she did under the stress of pain
and that she may not have realized
what she did. He said there was
a place in the state for girls when
they had fallen by the wayside-
the home at Taycheedah.
The court assured the defend
ant that She had the sympathy of
the prosecution, of her attorney.
and OF the jury, that they all felt
the weight of the matter, no doubt
more than she. The sentence Of
five years was then given-free-
dom In four years with good be-
havior. The court admonished
Miss Radel to obey the orders Civ
en- her while in the home and then
when she comes back to look up
the child by her divorced husband
and be mother to it, that the
child may be proud of her
AS the girl retired with an offhc
er the court said that her father
and mother might visit her while
in Baraboo. Her grandfather Rad
Ell Of Spring Green, one of the five
last Civil war veterans of Spring
Green, was also present.
Miss Radel bore the ordeal
without emotion There was no
indication OF sorrow or regret on
her face.
The attorneys said nothing.
There was a deep silence over the
court room while Miss Radel stood
at the bar
(From thursdays Daily
On the second day of the murder
trial in which Effie Radel is charg-
ed with the death of her infant
child at Spring Green, a number of
witnesses we're examined in cir
cult court in Baraboo on behalf of
the state. The courtroom was
crowded during the day.
After the trial had begun Attor-
ney Carl N. Hill, for the defendant,
stated that George j. Reuland,
Reedsburg, one of the jurors in
the case, had had business deal
ings with Attorney Harry Kjorstad
and that Mr.. Kjorstsd was associ-
ated with District Attorney H. J.
Bohn. the prosecution in the case
in the matter of law. For the
above reason, had he known this,
Attorney Hill should have struck
the name of Mr.. Reuland from the
list Of jurors. Judge Crosby refus-
ed to make any change in the per
sonel OF the jury.
The first witness called was
Mrs. Iva Olson who has a private
hospital at Spring Green. She told
OF Miss Radel coming there and of
her going away. The woman had
but about $3.50 and did not like
the idea of the public assisting, so
returned to her room over the res.
taurant where the child was born
soon after,
Mary Sullivan, who worked in
the restaurant, was the next wit
ness. She told of the things
which happened.
Mrs. Anna Hood was the nurse
who cared for Miss Radel soon af-
ter the child was born: There was
no one present at the time the
child came, the doctor arriving
soon after. Mrs. Hood testified as
to finger marks on the, child and of
seeing the mother evidently cholS