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itb i L’ttUCash Deposit Demanded.“Now if you think that you are able to some way put up $1,000 cash, we can talk matters over personally. If you cannot, is it worth while to consider? I would not care for you as a hired man. as I am tired of that and need a little rest in my home and near my children. I will close for this time.“With friendly regards.“MRS. P. S. GUNNESS.'’ Think She Is Living.A press dispatch from Providence, R. I., today says: Mads Sorensen,the first husband of Mrs. Belle Gun-ness, who died suddenly at their home at Linden Park, a suburb of Chicago, about five years ago, under suspicious circumstances, has a brother, Thorval Sorensen, working at the Gorham Manufacturing company, this city.Thorval states that another brother, Oscar, now dead, visited Chicago shortly after the death of Mads and attempted to have the matter investi-gater, but. upon his return, said that as he was without funds he was unable to have a chemical analysis made of the viscera.He claimed to have received a statement from a woman living in the neighborhood of Mads that on the day of bis death he was in good health and usual vigor. While in a bedroom of the house, this neighbor claims she saw Mrs. Gunness give Sorensen a glass from which he drank.He had hardly swallowed the potion when he exclaimed, “Bella, you have The remainder of the exclamation was lost by the closing of the door, and a few minutes later Mrs. Gunness announced that her husband was dead.Relatives here will make a request that the Chicago authorities invest!-eate the circumstances of Sorensen’sUiai nau cuiue iui mui unej lie uuuleft her house, and she wanted to know whether he was at home to receive them if she sent (hem there. She said, too, she hoped he was not offended by her not marrying him. She said she never thought he would ask her, because she had not encouraged him any. She said she hoped if lie was going West he would find some land as a homestead, but if she were in his place she would go to the old country to visit. The letter was writteji in Norwegian. Then we thought he had gone out West and we did not look for hint any more. April 5, 1907, he had borrowed $100 at the Farmers’ National bank in Iola for six months. When the note was due the bank tried to hunt him up. The hank wrote down to LaPorte to Mrs. Gunness and she wrote back that father had been robbed in Chicago of most of his money and some clothes and that he had told her he would go out West and try to make up what he had been robbed of before any of the relatives should learn of it. She said that he had left at her house a trunk and a few clothes and would send for them as soon as he got settled down. We still had no suspicion of his having been harmed by Mrs. Gunness.”Oscar Budsberg. the second son,told a similar story,Edward Chapin, secretary and treasurer of the Iola Hardware Co., who accompanied the Budsberg Bros., told Coroner Mack that he had known Ole Budsberg about 15 years. He added: “I could not state the exactdate on which I saw Mr. Budsberg alive but it must have been about April 4, 1907. He came into the store and shook hands with me and bade me good-bye, saying that he was going to LaPorte to take charge of a farm. He bought a small piece of rope at that time to bind up a trunk with, so neW.foile£Guthirmisph111;benebuphyenoinlolt;w;neEthe19WJ
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La Porte Weekly Herald
La Porte, Indiana, US
Thu, May 14, 1908
Page 14
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