People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — HELD FOR MURDER. [ARTICLE]

HELD FOR MURDER.

Five Persons Under Arrest at Burlington, la.. Charged with Causing a Woman’s Death. Burlington, la., July 26. Mrs. Leonard Fritzsche was shot through the heart and instantly killed Tuesday morning while sleeping in her- bed near an open window. It is charged that some one from outside fired the shot. The position of the body and wound indicates that the ball was fired from within the house. Five people are under arrest, three neighbors with whom the Fritzsches had considerable trouble and the husband and a hired girl. The relations of the dead woman and her husband were not happy. The case is ope of the most mysterious ever occurring in Burlington. Wrecked at a Railroad Trestle, Alton, 111., July 26.—At 6 a. m. Tuesday at Riehl’s trestle, 6 miles up the river, on the St. Louis, Chicago & St. Paul railroad, a fatal accident occurred. The engine and five cars of a local freight train had passed over safely, when the trestle gave way and the remainder of the train was piled up in the ravine below. William Burri 11, conductor, was killed >ptr;giit. and Johnson and Mathews, hrakemou. fatally injured.