He Stabbed His Wife

HE STABBED HIS WIFE

And Then Plunged the Knife Into Himself

BOTH WILL RECOVER

Serious Ending of a Family Dispute at Carl Lohrke's Home on First Street

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Carl Lohrke, of 511 First street, cut his wife over the eye with a knife Saturday evening and then plunged the knife into his own abdomen. Both will recover.

The affair grew out of a family quarrel, which are said not to have been infrequent. It occurred in a living room in the cellar of the house. According to Lohrke's own story, he drew his money at the University, where he worked as a laborer, and went home and stayed there. His wife went up town and returned about 9 o'clock. They had some words over one of the children whom the wife had put outdoors and she said something which made him mad. He had a knife in his hand with which he was peeling an apple and struck his wife with the knife, cutting a gash in her forehead, which bled very freely. Then he started to go upstairs, stopped, saw how the wife was bleeding, and opening the knife again and tearing his vest open plunged it in his abdomen. He then went into one of the bedrooms upstair and lay on the bed. While here he is said to have pounded on the floor and told the family to come upstairs so that he could cut their heads off.

The officers found him in bed with a feather bed pulled over him. He was taken to the University hospital, where he now is. The wife's wound was attended to by Dr John Kapp.

The family have six children, three of whom, aged 8, 10 and 14, are at home, two are working out in the city and one is in the Home for Girls at Adrian. Mrs. Lohrke had been up town to make preparations for the celebration of the birthday of the 14 year old boy Sunday. Both the husband and wife say he other was intoxicated, but each deny that they, themselves, were intoxicated.