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NUMBER MStranger Shoots WomanThroughSees Girl Xickcd Oui of House and Says He Shot to fall the Police, Sink, ing Womn.GIRL RECEIVES A BROKEN LEGiTwo Men Are Being Tried For Injuries They Indicted Upon Two DePue Women Wednesday#One woman lies in a critical condition at St. Margaret hospital in Spring Val. ley guttering from shock and hwt» of blood. caused by gun shot wounds n»d anotlier young womnu lies nt her Inane in DePue suffering with a broken leg between the knee and ankle, ami l»c*th nrc perhaps direct and indirect reaultw of a stepfather kicking Clara Kendzier-ski out of her home, after a family quarrel. The injurier* to both women occurred about 0:30 o'clock Wednesday evening.The trouble, as wo could gather just beore going to press, and Indore ami of the defendant* have boon tried, as about as fid Iowa:Anton Kendzierski, it is -aid, attempted to give his step daughter, Clara Kendzierski a scolding for staving out late at night*. The stepfather claims that the girl hns been in the habit of coming home anywhere between the hours of eleven o'clock at night and two o'clock in the morning. She is but seventeen year* of age and works in a store on the hill. Wednesday, the stepfather says she raino home early and wag making preparation* to spend the evening out. He advised her that she would either have to cut out the late roaming around or leave hi* home, and he claims she then told him wlmt she would do which was that she would do ns she pleased. Kendzierski then threw the girl’s clothing out of the house and grabing her gnve her a vicious kick that threw her out of the door and she fell upon the porch badly injured with a broken leg.Tills was the start of the trouble and then shooting began. It seem* that. Bntfe.-lnw Kuprelski. .1 Russian Pole, had blown into town Wednesday afternoon and was stopping at the home of Ladda DeKowiski, u friend of hi*. Kup. relski saw the woman kicked out of the house and saw her fall upon the porch. 1 hrough a lack of common judgment caused the police claim by on over indulgence in booze Kuprelski “boom-Open Windowboomed* in the air, to call the police. This is thi way the man explains it. But the story at police headquarters is different.When Krupolski left Cbicgo he had ♦US. With a portion of thi* he pur-chared a :t'2 calibre revolver to protect the rest of his money with. When ho landed in IVl’ue and was finally picked up by the police he had $70B3. He claim* that he sent n couple of boy* to a saloon during the afternoon to get him some beer and that he only had a very few glasses. When he saw the woman kicked out of the hlt;*»*c he way* he wished to notify the police of the trouble and shot four time* into the air and tried to shoot the fifth time* but the shell in the gun did not explode. He was either a poor shot or could not see where the sky line was, for two of the bullets pasted through a window of the home of Mr. and Mr*, duliua Rekow-ki. who live directly across tha street from the Kendzierski home. One of the bullets struck Mrs. Rokowaki, who was sitting at the window sewing, in the left arm. and the other grazed by her waist. The first bullet cut the main artery of the arm and it was only the immediate attention of Dr. Me-Donld and rushing her to the hospitl that saved the woman from bleeding to death. Ah it in the woman may loose the me of her arm.Kuprelski was placed under arrest bjr Marshal Bansch and was taken to the eitv jail. The man gave n wild story when first arrested and claimed that he w- a secret service man in the employed the l\ S. and had been sent to De Pue to do secret service work. After a good night** sleep however, he forgot the story of the night Wfore nrl told .1 different tub- As we go to pres* he is being given a trial with Stati-s Attorney Skinner prossccutin.gV'r.n. hi bed out of the house Llirn Ken«!/iersk!. was rendered unconscton? and it wn- *oine time ladoro the attending phyri'ians could bring her to. Tfc whs found that the girl had n bad breik between the ankle and knee and it w‘11 lie some time before she will In- able to use the limb.The stepfther wan arrested and lorf-C«.*d in jail with the man who did the shooting and he i* also being given a hearing a* we go to pro-*. The officer* claim that both men were more or lesa under H10 influence of liquor.
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De Pue Leader
De Pue, Illinois, US
Fri, Aug 17, 1917
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