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son ran up the sidewalk, mounted four steps and started to open the screen door. The man, who was Johnson, fired once from about 10 feet away, the bullet passing through the screen door, an inner door and lodging in the first step of a flight of stairs in the hallway.lt; »oodtalkedEx Wife Shot TwiceMr*. Johnson opened the screen door, but the inner door was locked. Johnson then pumped two shots into his wife’s body as she struggled to open the door, one striking her left shoulder, emerging, hitting her neck and passing out. The other struck her left side and, authorities said, apparently coursed upward, striking vital organs and lodging in her body. One of the shells was found today in a room leading from the Schwanke front hallway, having broken a panel of glass in the door and ricocheted off a hinge in the door jamb.Mrs. Johnson turned, according to Mrs. Schwanke, walked down the four steps, then reeled about 10 feet down a 3-foot terrace in the yard and fell backward. Mrs. Schw'anke said she heard Johnson say, “I hope you have got all that is coming to you,” and then shoot himself in the right temple once. He fell in the yard close to the body of hi* w'ife, their feet touching. The pistol, a German Mauser 7.65 millimeters, corresponding to an American .32 caliber, was found at his right fingertips.The shot which killed Johnson ranged upward and struck three feet from a second floor bedroom window in the home of Harvard Smith, 7618 5th Ave., from which Smith’s wife, Harriet, w'as peering in the brightly moonlit night. Mrs. Johnson’s screams had aw-akened the households of several neighbors.son at the filling station from 9:30 p.m. to approximately 10 p.m. Tuesday night, and Kenneth, who is em-pl yed there and went off duty at 6:30 p.m., told police that Johnson appeared in normal good spirits. Kenneth said, “Dad appeared normal and cheerful Tuesday.” Roe-mer reported, “We chatted in my car at the station and Johnson appeared in fine spirit*, apparently untroubled.”Police said that Johnson closedthe station at 10:30 p.m., and, sometime before 11:30 p.m., drove his car to the bathhouse at Southportpark about six blocVs from the:!scene of the shootings, w'alked to the Johnson home on 5th Ave. and secreted himself inside the north side entrance. The recovered at thewas later!car park.There is an areaway just inside the door with steps leading upward to a room at the left and anotherflight leading to the basement at the right. Police said Johnson apparently confronted his W'ife w-hen(Continued on Ft(« Five)—Evening News Photo*/TE OF PURSUIT—The dotted line is the route followred by Mrs. Johnson as she fled from her home, pursued by her armed ex-husband.1 is the door of the Ray Schw-anke home, which Mrs. Johnson tried to enter. No. 2 indicates the approximate position of the victims after shooting.Typhoon Paralyzes ^e*urn BodyMcCarthy Smoked OutTokyoOf War FlierNo Inquest ScheduledTokyo—(U.R)—A typhoon clawed at the densely-populated area last night, leaving the Japense capital paralyzed by 80-mile-an-hour winds.The storm moved on to the northeast shortly after midni the city blanketed in darkness with every street a virtual of fallen telephone poles, trees and debris.There was no immediate estimateThe remains of a Kenosha warhero, Tech. Sgt. Walter J. Keshel.21, will be returnedWashington — tfP) — Senator McCarthy (R.-Wis.) announced at the Gen. Vaughan “five percenter” hearing today that the cigar of Senator Mundt (R-S. D.) “makes me lonesome for a little pony I had back on the farm.”Boy Shot to DeathStealing CookiesChicagomA 10-year-oidINegro boy was shot to death yesterday for pilfering package of cookies.a five-centThursday afternoon from the Chicago Graves Distribution Center for reburialMaj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, the witness, was smoking a cigar too. But it was smoke fromMr. and Mr*. Schwanke rushed dowmstair* and found the Johnsons, both gasping and blood spat-of damage, but it was believed to run high with many Japanese injured and thousands left homeless by the deluge of wind and water.No American casualties had beenThe WeatherA radio gunner on a B it Flying Fortress, Keshel was killed in action while on a bombing mission over Germany.Mundt’s stogey that drifted up McCarthy’s nostrils.He w'as born in Kenosha, Dec. 19, 1923, a son of James and AnnaThe other day McCarthy asked If something could be done to get Mundt “some cigars made of tobacco.”The youngster, James Searcy, died on the sidewalk outside an elevated station of a bullet wound in the head. He was shot as he and four companions were running from the candy and newspaper stand inside the station where Searcy snatched the cookies.Hyde Park police said that Car roll Johnson, 11, also a Negro, ad mitted firing the shot.
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Kenosha Evening News
Kenosha, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Aug 31, 1949
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