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TWO MEN ARE IN JAIL.T—TSUSPldON^D OF BEING IMPLICATED IN FRANZ HUESLER’S DEATH.✓Leonard C« ^Koehler, alias Dr. Chas* A. Pushecks and ^Joseph* Held Taken to Woodstock Jail. N ^The death of Franz^ Huesler at Marengo' under such peculiar cireumstances.afc re-lated-in-THE-HBRA-irD-Iast-week-continlies-to agitate the public mind~at Marengo, as indeed it does wherever the facts in the case are known. It will be remembered in our narration ojUast week that a Chicago doctor figured conspicuously in the case and he with Joseph Held have been arrested and are n,ow in the county jail at Woodstock awaiting the action of ^the grand jury.A post-mortem examination was held last Tuesday by Dr. C. M. Jphnson and Dr. E. Windmueller and it.revealed that the dead man did not have any*signsro^ pneumonia, with which it'swas said he died, but the right lung w.as in such a condition as to indicate an acute stage ofpleurisy and the left’ lung was almostentirely gone. The stomach was badly inflamed and the heart in nearly a normal condition;—He had- been-complainmg-o;being sick for several days before his death but no medical aid was secured for bim and no physician administered to him until the man who had been there■sevemi_times_before“an'dwho ' wenrunfferthe name of Dr. Pusheck, came out from Chicago to see Mr. Held; he gave him some of the homeopaihic remedies for which he was the agent* but those seemed to be of no effect.Huesler made a will deeding his property to Held. He signed the document a few hours before his death and it was witnessed by Mrs. W. H. Harrison and Dr. Pusheck. It has been rumored that Held made a will deeding his property to Huesler, but this is denied.The coroner’s jury returned a verdict the substance of which was that Huesler came to his death from gross neglect, want of medical attendance, nprsing, care and other causes unknown to the jury.One peculiar thing about' the will was the fact that in signing it as a witness the - man who is now in jail with Held signed his name as Dr. Pusheck, but whose real name is Leonard C. Koehler. The Chicago Daily News sent a reporter to locate the Pusheck institute,^ for which Held and Koehler have worked, with the result that its location Is given as 330 LaSalle avenue, Chicago. It bears the sign “Electro-Homeopathy,” and is in charge of a man named Black, who, when seen by a reporter said he knew nothing about Huesler. He further said that Dr. “Koehler is one of our regular physicians. He* went to Marengo the other day to see a patient And stopped _aL H.eld!fiJimise, IItknow-nothing of Held. The first I heard of this case was the dispatch from Marengo in a morning paper announcing the death of*Huesler.”_ When. he _ had got tills far inJiis-naj tive, Jhowever, he remembered more of‘the case and continued: “Held is a buyer atMarengo. He comes to Chicago and makes purchases for Marengo people. He at times finds it possible to send patients to us. In fact, he sends us a good many. The other day Koehler went up there to see some of them and found at Heid’s house this man Huesler, who was suffering ftfbm a cold. As soon as Koehler saw him he told him his illness was fatal. Sure enough, Huesler died, in spite of all Koehler could do for him, Before he died the mayor of Marengo called and the man’s will was properly drawn by him. Koehler went up there to the coroner’s inquest, and I see by the dispatch he .was arrested on complaint of the state’s afctor-lOLzenderedtr* a Usw/a'tf i w mv,examination of the man’s stomach, I am AWhole thing is just-an attempt on the.^ part of the Marengo physicians to drive us out of that town.” I tsAn employe of Manager Black said that Held was 7a regular agent of the physicians, ■sending inauy patient At a neighboring drug store it was saidthat^the physicians conducted very littlelocal-b.uslness; buHiad'TnanyTgents^dut' who sent them names of patients.. These were visited by a corps of traveling physicians, and the prescriptions filled .and shipped from the central office.^Ko eh 1 e r-an d~He Jd-a re -inr-ja i 1-^trWoodstock. The former is married Und his wife and three* children are temporarily living at W^odsto'ck. field Was married years ago, but he and his 1 wife could not agree, so concliided'it was better to shift —foTCthemselves; -——2-Attorney Casey, who will be the legal-the accused—men—intheir fight for*!freedom from the-charge against thetn, appeared in the probate court last Monday and -made*applicationth au Ot imraneri ok]to probatfc the will made by HueslerrWhoit seems that-Huesler had made-apotherwill. When living at Elgin a few years ago he made a will,,naming asbfs bepe-(1£=UCjty, who has appeared-imMarengo Biidwill*Tnade-by^^aeel6ri^Meantime the TTiyfiteryaarronndlng4he deathof Hueslerremains as cjouded'as ever.I-I =-1 as itio
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Harvard Herald
Harvard, Illinois, US
Thu, May 11, 1899
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