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Mr. and Mrs. YVesternaus were singing hymns just before the tragedy. Mrs. Westerhaus was seated at the organ playing, and Westerhaus stood behind her. Suddenly Westerhaus seized a hammer and struck his wife on the head with it repeatedly. Dr. J. G. Lee of Eu-dora, who was summoned, found five scalp wounds made by the hammer head. The attack was made without warning. Westerhaus had seemed to be under a strain all the time he was singing and praying with his wife.Mrs. Westerhaus was not made unconscious by the blows. She resisted her husband and finally broke, loose from Ins grasp.Westerhaus then left his house and walked towards the railroad track. Mrs. Westerhaus, though bleeding and dizzy from the blows, was able to call the parents of Westerhaus over tne phone, and tell them there had been trouble. A brother and sister of Westerhaus started for his home. On the way they saw Westerhaus walking toward the railroad track and tried to overtake him. .. . _ .An east-bound Santa Fe passenger train passes Weaver about 2:40
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Lawrence Jeffersonian Gazette
Lawrence, Kansas, US
Wed, Jan 07, 1914
Page 2
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