All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Telegraph-Courier Kenosha, Wis Thursday, 30 October 1890 A tiff between a newly-married couple culminated in a terrible tragedy at Casco, Kewaunee County, the particulars of which are contained in the following telegram from Kewaunee: ALFRED LODERMEYER was married a week ago to Miss MARY STECINHKY, a Polish girl, who lived with her father on a farm adjoining his. LODERMEYER and his wife were digging potatoes Monday last when he re- marked that the potatoes were so small that there would not be near enough for winter. She replied that a bushel would be enough for her during the winter and ought to be enough for him. He told her that she had already eaten more than a bushel in the week that they had been married. She said that if he thought that she ate too much she would go home to her father. He told her to go ahead, and she did. It seems that she returned to her husband's house and packed up her clothes preparatory to tak- ing them away and that she and LEDERMEYER quarreled. She ran out of the house and started for her father's house, pursued by LODERMEYER with a Winchester rifle. She got about twenty rods from the house when he fired, but missed her. He immediately fired again, the ball striking her back of the ear and coming out of her forehead, killing her instantly. He then returned to the house, and, seating himself on the bed, touched the trigger with a stick and shot him- self through the heart. The woman's father was plow- ing in an adjoining field and saw the woman running and heard her call to him for help. He started to- ward her when he heard the shot and reached her to find her dead. In the room in which they were sup- posed to have quarreled were found a Winchester rifle, a shotgun, and a revolver. LODERMEYER was 33 years old and his wife 18 years. He had always been quiet and steady. A coroner's jury was im- paneled and a verdict was found in accordance with the facts. ===========================================================================