Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1912 — MEETS DEATH IN WIRE FENCE [ARTICLE]

MEETS DEATH IN WIRE FENCE

Wealthy Pennsylvanian, Unable .to Free Himself, Freezes, White Friends Search. Pottsville, Pa.—Too #oak to free himself from a barbed wire fence that held him captive on a mountain three miles from here, Louis Stoffregen, 80 years old, a wealthy resident of Pottsville, was frozen to death. While hl body was swaying about in the wins hundreds of friends searched the valley below. Mr. Stoffregen left home in the after* noon to take a walk. He apparently climbed the mountain, and was held fast when his clothing caught in S| barbed wire fence. The aged mad was probably exhausted by the loni climb, and his feeble shouts were lost In the rush of the wind. , Friends started the search when he failed to reach home at dark. State policemen who had been called in climbed the mountain and found tM body.