Garland Globe | 1907-03-16 | Page 5 | Sad Home-Coming

SAD HOME-COMING. Merchant Stumble'r Over Body of Murdered Mur-dered Wife. St. louls, Mo. When ho returned from IiId olllco Thursday night Herman Her-man W. Quernhelm, president or tho Quernhelm Hardware company, stumbled stum-bled over the lireless ronn or his wUo In the front hall of his resldonco, 3720 Vesta nvenue, ono of tho fashionable residence Btrets. Mrs. Quernhelin'c throat had been cut, sho had been shot once, nnd her body had been brutally bru-tally torn and bruised. Scattered near the body wore a large quantity or Jowelry nnd Bovernl hundred dollars In currency. Tho only thing that was missing wns a pair of hanJsomo diamond earrings, which had been torn from tho dead woman's cars. Mr. Quernhelm was unable to furnish fur-nish any clue, aud although almost tho entire detective rorco hns been assigned as-signed to the case nothing has been learned as to tho Identity or Mrs. Quernheim's nssallant.