Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the WorldWooldridge, Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman)
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Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World
Wooldridge, Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman)
Crime -- Illinois -- Chicago; Police -- Illinois -- Chicago
Below is given a partial list of the victims of this inhuman monster,
as it appeared in the Chicago American, Sunday, April 26, 1908:
PARTIAL CATALOGUE OF MRS. GUNNESS' 180 VICTIMS.
1. Max Sorenson, Mrs. Gunness' first husband--whom she
poisoned.
2. Peter S. Gunness, second husband, whom she killed with a
meat axe.
3. Her infant child, whom she strangled to death.
4. Miss Justina Loeffler, of Elkhart, Ind., believed to
have been married to Johann Hoch and sent by him to Mrs.
Gunness to be murdered and buried.
5. Olaf Limbo, Norwegian farm hand.
6. Ole Budsberg, a hired man, from Iola, Wis.
7-9. Three well-known men of Fort Wayne, Ind., who have
disappeared in the last two years.
10. A horse trader from Montana.
11. Jennie Olsen, eighteen years old, adopted daughter of
Mrs. Gunness.
12. Henry Gurholt, left Scandinavia, Wis., on March 12,
1906, saying he was going to marry Mrs. Gunness.
13. George Bradley, forty years old, of Tuscola, Ill., went
to La Porte, Ind., October 20 of last year.
14. Olaf Lindboe, farm laborer, of Chicago, employed by
Mrs. Gunness.
15. Lee Porter, of Bartonville, Okla., quarreled with his
wife and answered one of Mrs. Gunness' matrimonial "ads."
17. Crippled man from Medina, N. D.
18-20. Three children of Mrs. Gunness killed or burned in
house--Myrtle, aged 11; Lucy, 9; Philip, 5.
21. Body of unidentified woman found in ruins of burned
house.
22. Strange baby left last fall by man and woman, as told
by Ray Lamphere, arrested as accomplice of Mrs. Gunness.
23. John O. Moe went to La Porte from Elbow Lake, Minn.,
day before Christmas, 1906, with $1,000.
24. Armat Hartoonan, wealthy Armenian rug merchant of
Binghamton, N. Y., who went to La Porte in 1906 in answer
to a matrimonial "ad."
25. Charles Neuberg, of Philadelphia, took $500 and went to
visit Mrs. Gunness in June, 1906.
26. George Berry, of Tuscola, Ill., went to work for Mrs.
Gunness July, 1905. He took $1,500, expecting to marry the
widow.
27. John A. Lefgren, aged forty-eight, disappeared from the
Chicago Club, and is believed to have gone to Mrs. Gunness'
farm.
28. E. J. Tiefland, retired railroad man, of Minneapolis.
29-30. A Los Angeles college professor and wife--names not
yet ascertained.
31. Andrew K. Helgelein, Aberdeen, S. D., ranchman, the
last victim, whose fate led to the discovery of Mrs.
Gunness' crimes.
32. Charles Edman, farm laborer, from New Carlisle, Ind.
Took $3,000 in savings to Mrs. Gunness' home.
33. Frank Riedinger, young German farmer, of Delafield,
Wis., went to La Porte in February, 1907.
34. Babe seen by a neighbor, Mrs. William Diesslen, which
afterward disappeared.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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