Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1895 — THE LAKE COUNTY MURDERS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LAKE COUNTY MURDERS.

nw Mystery JVeepen* a» Tn vest I gnt ton - Proceeds. Three weeks since Mrs. Pauline Ellwanger was found in her house, at Cedar Lake, Ind., about four miles from Crown Point, lying in a pool of blood. The weapon used was evidently a heavy hardwood rolling pin which lay near by stained with blood. The door on the side of the house had been broken in, and near the woman lay a man’s shirt with bloodstains on the cuffs and the prints of bloody fin;, gers on the neckband. Beside the shirt was a pair of wet socks. The woman was not dead, but unconscious, and died the following morning without having re-

rained consciousness. Suspicion was directed against the husband, who was missing. The day previous, Aprii 8. Ellwanger was known to have gone to Chicago with a neighbor, returning in his company about mkjqtght. That was the last seen of him alfve: Sunday evening, April 21, the disfigured and bloated remains of Eflwanger were found floating in Lemon Lake: The man’s throat had been cut and there were a number o{ bribes on his bead. The investigation byofficials since that time have only served the mystery. It has been discovered* however, that Mrs. Ellwahger had three former husbands living, 0,11 pt whom were undivorced, She was also an heir to con-

slderable property from her mother’s estate and had been involved In trouble on that account. A letter was found from her first husband accusing her of bigamy and giving her advice concerning her property. He avowed himself as her friend and said he alone was to blame for her bigamous relations, because of his failure to procure a divorce as ba h*d promised '

OTTO ELLWANGER, [From photograph taken two or three years ago]

PAULINE ELLWANGER. THE MURDERED WOMAN.