Clinton-Jackson County IA Archives News.....Foul Murder October 14, 1919
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Maquoketa Excelsior Record, Maquoketa, Iowa October 14, 1919
Maquoketa Excelsior Record, October 14, 1919

FOUL MURDER

E. H. Hansen of near Elvira, Clinton County, Friday morning shot and killed his
wife and two children, boys two and four years old respectively and then turned
the shot gun on himself and pulled the trigger. When found by the neighbors they
had all been dead for a day or so. After killing the rest of the family he took
off his shoe and placing the gun with the muzzle to his breast pulled the
trigger with his toe and death was instantaneous. He left a note saying he
intended to commit the deed and that it was on account of his wife’s people, but
neighbors say that the couple had been heard quarreling the day before. The
evidence shows that the wife had been crying as she held a handkerchief in her
hand and was holding it up to her face even in death. She and the little one
were lying in the bed and the gun wound was in the back of the head. He may have
been insane and he may not have been. The only trouble is that he killed the
wrong person first.


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