Views His Wife's Remains
Kenosha, July 8. - August Hilgendorf was taken from juil Monday morning to the undertaker's, where the body of his murdered wife lay, and there by the coffin he was charged with the inurdor. He strenuously denied the charge and protested his innocence. At the inquest Monday afternoon he showed a-atolid indifference and tv heartless cruelty in telling his story. When he was asked to identify the bloody corncuttcr and bloodstained clothes he seemed unmoved and turned the kniie over and over in his hands. All efforts to trip hirn in his story were unayailing, and once or twice he willed God to witness that he had not killed the wonian. He denied that he was intoxicated on the u-iy of the murder, said that he had drunk i?o whisky and that the bottle found on him had been given to him. After three hours of close questioning the inquest was not finished.
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