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idinaKILLED THREE MEN WHILE IN DRUNKENFURYFour Other Persons Are Wounded by Chicago War Veteran.I Chicago, June 1 on—Ferdinand h | Preus.s, the maniac who .snot three y men d*^ad and wounded four others I while in a drunken fury yesterday.J was decapitated today bv a Chicago d.and Northwestern railroad train, n. A body found on the right of way 1 was positively identified by a fish-sjing license issued to Preuss, and 1 police believe the man. sobered ii 1 overnight, realized the tragedy of it yesterday and committed suicide.The condition of Preuss' body t | indicated he had lain on the track i and waited for the train to run over him. police said Preuss. a war veteran and expert marksman, killed two policemen and a civilian yesterday and wounded two policemen and two civilians with a pump shotgun The police* men were members of a squad sent to arrest him aPer neighbors heard him threaten to kill his wifeDetective First.John Lee Conley, leader of thedetective squad, was the first to fall before the madman's onslaught. Conley was approaching the rear door at the time After mortally wounding him. Preuss swung around and fired at Policeman Herbert Hagberg. who was coming in the front way. Hagbert whirled, screamed, took a dozen steps and fell dead.Policeman Joseph J. Murphy, Conley's chauffeur who had remained in the car seized a shotgun I and started to the help of the other policemei . He had taken less than a dozen steps when Preuss' pump-gun bla ted through a front window and Murphy fell badly wounded A K-cond later Gus Karos, who lived three doois away from the home, and John Chorazak.. * ighbor. both attracted by hootau,. me- where Murphy r 1 fallen Karos had rushed out.nr hi.i blind brother-in-law. Rudolph Krusche who had been to a nearby stoie and was expected home.Kills Another.Another shot and Chorazak. who was standing not 10 feet from tin* window, fell dead. Karos Jumped to lueld his brother-in-law who was ju passing tlie house. As he did o the liftii shell in Preuss 0un was discharged and struck him in the back. . ,Preu » pressed the trigger again and the hammer fell on an empty chamoei. Pohc • beueve ?hat is the only reason Krusche, the blind man. was not num ied among the victimsThe si? ■ r a ••• )nd later rushed out «f i t: door or his hem*.,.iu bodies of Conley• Continued on page 5.)
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Creston News Advertiser
Creston, Iowa, US
Sat, Jun 01, 1929
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