Show J J z I L t t t. t rr r f Ig I g k r 1 n J i L w t tr r X ik eln f r d K y t f f 1 ft i Tr ky rY tY A a 4 rr t X t r y Y k 3 i r b w a r 7 t Sv i 1 5 J r 1 7 i. b tt r 1 J S ARST pl t rv w T. T a r l f r i y t r f rw Y R N 4 r f f r r r L rj t 1 t r y rk r S i Ft 1 C Cr f y rY Jr z j 1 r rv r 1 t of His r t JJ rl t n Graves x 1 C the i ii oW i o- o oi v 33 MW- MW J ks i IT 1 T and 1 Mother Law Law t R of I s t. t t ash R d U f r r 1 t Y c t i A F Are Being Opened Otters Others r iSy 11 t y V 5 and Searched ea for tor to Prove That at the 8 Doctor u Says ays is Is All r F Dp are the rich richest cst families In fj IWHO town and which o of ot f them havo have VV marriageable daughters It If said were the questions t 1 ese etel se Is Dr J J. A A. A Freudenberg asked when from medical college penniless and andton ton own wn ho ha settled down to practise his Illusion fusIon in fn Markesan Wisconsin 1 e 8 young oun physician had no difficulty In infill fill the information he sought for Is only a small farming village everybody in it Is thoroughly familiar only Hh with frith tho the wealth or poverty Out but 1 p Uh th the of or every every- else nd d the doctor was as not nol slow slots to act her these stories are aro true or not M bin a a. very short time alter after his vet nl In he had married the tat Nt girl in the village village Gladys Gladys Duffies to a fortune estimated at fully ully and and had nad ad settled down to live U with bride and her family in the comfortable Bw is homestead i ma was In 1915 And now nor five years ir i the gossips of ot Markesan and tho the 1 authorities of ot the county as well wen are if it there thare was not a deeper deener and i sinister ter significance than they ever r d at the time in Dr Freudenberg's ergs erg's Interest int rest in the financial standing f ie is villages village's es e's marriageable girls and his ij dy marriage to the richest of ot them aUaU all aU i all aU this the Injustice of cruel village lip Ip p theIr their suspicions aro are well founded rounded i mOTes mores on the physicians physician's part were the first steps In a carefully planned to obtain quick control of the pies ee family fortune fortunes fortune a plot that sent sentI I B moth mother r and three of ot grandparents to their death It local decal authorities claim they have P to prove pro that he Is a whole hole a cr-a cr man who prostituted his I lea Ion and end betrayed his wife's wite's love ine In M e Ort rt to gain Bain his evil ends who V s M I. I killed I vas bat on gU lour four times tunes and by methods mut mat have been cruel torture for his less less' in order to satisfy his for tor r gold Old 1 I leu these suspicions or tue true Dr enberg is s a wickedly maligned man man Who Rill wUl b be e entitled to the worlds world's 7 that his family happiness and prosperity should have clouded by by- bythe the shadow of ot this unjust clOD dos the authorities have hav round found to believe belleve that an entirely entire innocent could have become involved in a a. chain es so unusual that as which COned fled self Physician f about the young oung Wiscon d Dr Freudenberg has with ith first degree the death murder out ot of his mother la in la w R and is ia On Oa 30 ban bail awaiting Baiting r man trial can be a i crime but 11 it H arrested r I and charged u. u Rill VI 11 requIre don elon Curious moro more than testImony circumstances an and d hear hear- y to fasten the e present resent s on Dr Freuden Freudenberg n not of Ion long after the do doctors doctor's stets that the marthat marthat mar mar- ben been a traditional record of good health which almost a In n the Dumes home ct bf the Ion long generation was broken b by y the th deaths that series ot of serious nesses illnesses pIe l last continued Fan Fall With v little in in- sego remarked ld Which how strange it was that be had d always been E so II e just Ina after repeatedly visited by serious th the e family a physician clau h had married Jn mote re than But nobody thought this a an antte odd coincidence e ks a Until agO go lh be of the tte cur nobody Suspected that th tho ed e one ODe men and Women which lee les homestead another so quick quickly y a at t the were cre dU duo natural causes uses to anything a ta ra Mary grandmother Perry her f mother or f Airs Mra D eB or of th tha rat 1 t Doctors Doctor's s wife wire to tall fan ill fit i was 9 door floor Then i br f W weeks she sho was V sat at ather er But so sho h 6 an slowly to before t l S agal again n her e slit she tiro able ablo to bo be boand atter ter a a. short t husband hUsban illness sickened and r rl l G Again Mrs Perry fell feB ill and this time she too died Before the neighbors had fairly recovered from the shock of ot her death Alfred Duffies Sr the tho father of Mrs 1 Duffies's second husband took to hl his bed and died Curiously enough the cemetery In Markon Marko- Marko san adjoins the Duffies homestead It is only a eo step from rom the front steps of ot the house to the acreage of or the tho dead and the family burying plot boasting boasting- one of at the tho cemetery's s 's most conspicuous monuments is in full fun view of ot tho the windows The last corpse to be he carried from the Duffies homo home to a grave grayo next door was that ot of Irs Nettle Nettie Duffies the mother o of the doctors doctor's wife wIre Her death was a a. surprise to everybody e for she was not an old woman oman and she had seemed In unusually vigorous health In fact according to 10 the district attorney at the time she was suddenly taken ill she was as contemplating a third marriage marriage- Apparently she ehe had had the best hest care Her son son in in law Dr Freudenberg was at ather ather ather her bedside night and day and a Dr trained nurse was also In attendance But all the efforts which the doctor put forth with appearance of or conscientious zeal were of no avail ayaH in relieving relieving- the painful trouble from Crom which she ahe suffered Solutions which he Injected into the bladder to allay the womans woman's sufferings were not effective and she finally died in great agony The general sorrow over Mrs Duffies's untimely u death was softened somewhat by bythe bythe bythe the knowledge that her daughter the doctors doctors doctor's doctors doctor's doc doc- tors tor's wife wire was now tho the richest woman Inthe in inthe n the county Mrs Freudenberg has always been very Tery popular in the neighborhood and everybody was glad to know that she was the possessor of ot a generous fortune Mrs Duffies had for years been a rich woman And her wealth had bad been largely Increased by the property to which she ahe had fallen rallen heir when her parents and her late father died Now all this was Mrs Freudenberg's a a fortune of ot consisting of ot considerable cash in bank the finest farm home In Green Lake Lako County and several hundred acres of ot rich land But Rut those who supposed 1 that Mrs Sirs Dur fleas flea's ll ss s's life Ufo history was a closed book when the frozen clods of earth finally covered her coffin reckoned without her brother Wilfred E. E Perry Mr Perry had ha long entertained a a. feeling feel feet ing lug of or dislike for Dr Freudenberg the physician who had bad come to Markesan l 1 pe pen penniless en and aud unknown and who had become through his marriage and end through the subsequent subsequent subsequent sub sub- sequent deaths In n his wife's family a man mm manof manof of or wealth and prominence And AntI several things which attracted his notice during his sisters sister's last illness made mado him feel that the causes of or her death ought to be gono gone Into further With a persistence and skill worthy of at a 1 train trained ell criminal investigator ator he ho started di digging ing into the tho matter He lie had hall not been digging IOn long before ho uncovered circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances B BO so odd that when they were told to the tho county authorities they promptly ordered or or- ordered dered Mrs Duffies's body exhumed for ex ex- Tho strongest link in Mr Perrys Perry's chain of ot suspicions suspicious u was oUtS a deposition nI L which he re re- t eu cel irom Horn Airs lurs Grace ulace Brehl a Ii trained nurse In her deposition it is 18 alleged that Mrs Brehl swore that ins instead toad of the tho soothing soothing sooth sooth- ing remedies which Dr Dl Freudenberg pretended pretended pre pre- tended to be administering to Mrs Duffies he ho had bad injected a powerful pm highly irritating irritating in ing solution of oC mustard The rhe coroners coroner's Jury brought in the following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing verdict That tho the death of or Nettie Nettle Duffies was 31 caused b by r foul play by br nn on injection into her bladder r of or some powerful pO substance which according to tho the pathologist and other testimony was a containing mustard and find injected by one Dr J. J A. A F If TC the conclusions of or the pathologist and the coroners coroner's jur jury and nd the district attorney who caused Dr Ir Freudenberg arrest aro are correct and this really wa was murder it jt was wasa a crime so tiO cruel for its ita hopeless victim a Cruel S Mistake Make 4 Sis I. I 1 i c yr y r S' S i J v 1 11 11 I I 1 1 A I II I t. t y t F V rw p v t sf n 7 V W f 4 V y yr rf P v t a r w r r b b l n YA vL wai s r 1 H i r t v vr W eY S r ir k M S' S SiMS iMS l r r 1 c Z r I X 1 n r t a a V. V f t 3 i fi 4 4 4 I. 1 PHOTOS INTERN INTERNATIONAL TI FilM FlU SERVICE Dr J. J A. A Freudenberg Accused of Being Beim the Mustard Murderer that she must have died in paroxysms of ot ota a agony n Mustard l r as ns everybody knows is highly irritating Two of or Its active principles when combined with water produce a volatile oil powerful enough to blister bUster the toughest skin In fact lct it is almost wholly for Its irritant qualities that mustard Is ia employed in medicine The bladder under normal conditions is isone isone isone one of or the most delicate organs in tho the human body In Mrs Duffies's case it W was waa u. u already inflamed uy ny disease Can Uan anybody imagine the excruciating pain which must have followed the flooding of ot tho the delicate mucous surfaces that lino the walls waIls of tho the bladder with a strong mustard solution The wonder Is that Mrs Duffies survived if the tho charge chargo be true the few tew hours that she dIdI didI didI did I am nm not taking sides Rides said one of ot the doctors who assisted in the autopsy Ido I Ido Ido do not Hl like o Dr Freudenberg Freudenber or approve of or him but I am not accusing him No Noone Noone Noone one hn has yet ret been heen informed just what Mrs 1 Duffies's S trouble was when she was taken en ento to lo her bed with her last Jast illness I understand understand understand under under- stand this news Is to be valuable testimony testimony test test- mony at nt the doctors doctor's trial After death the bladder was terribly dra drawn Wll from scars t 1 1 b d b In I ulcers Ara ora UH c 01 s u Utu cause jU uy I y un a that had long since healed It is not possible for ulcers lo to heal kcal if it ifa ifa ita a constant draining of or pus from tho the kidneys kid nays I ig is pouring over o them and ami that was waR the tho chronic condition of or Mrs Duffies Thu Tho scars look took an UR if it the they were burned Perhaps Per Per- haps they arc are Argyrol rol is healing heating and would not cause causo such stick a condition even evon if It the tho doctor did as ho he said inject into the bladder a a. solution of or bismuth and argy argy- rol A pathologist i t from t the e University of or orVi Wisconsin Vi who examined tho the body C 1020 l O International Feature Strike lac Ilu Residence of Mother Mother Law r-in-La r to Law W Mrs N Nett d Duffies Which Faced the Cemetery Where the Grave of Her Husband Could Be Seen Seen and and Where Her Own Body Was Vas Soon Buried and Then Exhumed b by bythe the Authorities and Examined for Evidences of Her Murder twenty miles In zero weather eather to carry the th certificates of deposit which saved him himI I from a n night In the county JaiL r But it is not surprising to find the wife f. f loyal to her husband in his hour of trouble If U she may map have had doubts and misgivings in ings s she may know things which the pub t J Ho lie and the authorities do not know kno which now makes her believe her husband inno lane J cent k Aside from her conviction of ot his innocence innocence in there thera Is 19 another theory fox for 7 Mrs Freudenberg's attitude attitude- her attitude her do do- to her only child Jane no novad nova nort J d eighteen months old As anybody can see all an her interest in life ute 19 JIt centred in this baby girl Anxiety about the childs child's welfare overshadows even evert the grief griet over her mothers mother mother t 1 d th v e r 7 Ij 1 Q 4 c- c cy c i y s t r t. t I IP I r- r i 1 ff fI P r j J t t r r r 1 f r J i J. 4 r. r s. s t 0 f. i f t. 1 ti L. L i- i c t jo 1 Mrs Dr J. J A. A Freudenberg Mother Law Nettie Duffies Who the tho Who Tho Says Say She Believes Authorities Say Was Murdered Her Husband Is Innocent fled that the scar sear tI tissue sue present in the tho bladder was the result of or something that had ba burned tho the tissue When asked whether a solution of bismuth an and argyrol would product such a condition he said Most 1 emphatically no But mustard l would v produce Just such a condition 1 If Mrs Duff Duffies s was murdered then it is not unreasonable lo to suspect that the deaths of h her r parents and ami her hus bus husbands husband's husbands bands band's father were also due due to unnatural causes causo This can be determined only b by exhumation of or the bodies and a p l careful examination examination ex ex- examination of their vital organs for signs that tho the medicines with Uh which Dr Freudenberg Freu- Freu denberg had dosed them wore really poison But H of ot course if the doctor should be convicted of ot tho the mur murder er of or Mrs Duffies it Will vill be unnecessary to go to the tho trouble of trying to fasten other oUter crimes upon him What could havo been the motive for Cor these murders If H murders they lIOY were Greed Creed says the District Attorney An Arn uncontrollable Itching on Dr bergs berg's part for tho the fortunes belonging to his th family formed tho the motive for forthe or ortho tho the series of or crimes of or which Mrs Duffies's murder was probably the climax Such a theory is ridiculous the doctors doctor's friend f endE maintain Eventually E bis his wife wile would have inherited all an this money moncy nn anyway any way wary ny they argue and Dr Freudenberg is 15 too lop sensible a man Ulan not nol to have havo been will will- Greet Gmt nights Bight It Ing to wait a few years and let life Ure and death tako take their natural tural course But Dut tho the District Attorney says he lie has arguments to overthrow sv all these Ho Ito maintains that had Mrs Duffies's parents and her husbands husband's father lived at least apart a apart apart part of ot their wealth would have been diverted di dl- diverted from the Freudenberg family He claims to have hayo evidence o that the tho elder Mr Duffies's death came camo just in time to prevent pre pre- vent his making a will wilt bequeathing the bulk of or his estate to n a brother in Wash Wash- ington And had Mrs Duffies lived ie tho the District Attorney contends she would havo married mar tied ried again and in this way still more of the tho mone money would have havo gone bono to others According to tho the ca case o which rests l-ests on these theories four lives stood between 1 h r I t 1 o n jjr VI Freu denberg and aim t o u u r possess of ot a fortune the fortune the lives of or Mix Mr and Mrs Pen Pen- Perry tile the elder eJder Mr Duffies and Mrs Netted Duffies And the tho District Attorney will undertake to provo prove tho the |