Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1899 — NEW LIGHT ON A TRAGEDY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW LIGHT ON A TRAGEDY.

Woman Supposed to Have Killed Heraelf Evidently Waa Murdered. Near Libertyville, 111., the body of Mrs. Bertha Krueger, who was supposed to have killed her mother on July 16 and

then committed suicide, was the other day exhumed and a bullet wound found at the base of the brain, showing that she was murdered and didnot commit suicide. Her husband was arrested on the charge of murder

GEORGE KRUEGER.

and taken to the county jail at Waukegan to await the action of the grand jury. On July 16 Krueger, bleeding from wounds, told his neighbors his wife had shot and killed her mother, Mrs. Yoss,

and then shot him. At the coroner’s inquest he swore his wife had met him at the door and shot him in the arm as he was about to enter the house. Undertakers discovered the second bullet hole in the back of the head, and it was at Coroner Knight’s

and State’s Attorney Heydecker’s orders the body was exhumed. It is claimed that Krueger and his wife had quarreled regarding family matters and the ownership of certain property.

MRS. KRUEGER.