Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois Volume 218 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...later, when he was told, through a speaking tube, by Mrs. Hogenson, that his wife an-zs had retumed but had gone to bed, and that she had told her mother to tell him that she would not see him that night but for him to come the next day. On the following. morning he went to the house shortly after nine o cl0ck. The Hogenson home was the second flat of a building on West Division street. He was admitted to the parlor by his wife, and the two sat down in that room. Mrs. Hogenson was at work in the kitchen. The doors between the parlor and kitchen were open and she was able to see into the parlor. The defendant and the deceased talked in a low tone, and Mrs. Hogenson could not distinguish what was said by either of thern. After the defendant had been in the room about twenty minutes, his wife went into the kitchen for a glass of water and returned with it tothe parlor. Several minutes afterwards the defendant and. his wife went into the hall, and soon afterwards Mrs. Hogenson heard shots proceeding therefrom. She seized a small club and ran into the hall, where she found her daughter lying upon the floor, shot twice in the breast, and the defendant upon the stairs leading down from the flat, witha revolver in his hand. She attempted to strike him with the club, but dropped it down the steps. He advanced upthe steps towards her and she ran into the parlor, locking the door after her. Soon thereafter she heard more shots proceeding from the hall. Seizing a piece of a broken bedstead she again went intothe hall and found the defendant lying upon the floor. He had shot himself twice in the breast, a little to the right of the heart. The wife of the defendant died almost immediately from the wounds received by her. The defendant was...