May 25,
1905
– A young man named Herman Speff, from Cokato, working for Mrs. Deal, and a
young girl about 15 years of age, named Sidensticher, whose father resides near
Wheaton, were found three miles south near the railroad tracks this afternoon.
The young man was dead, having been shot in the mouth with a revolver, and the
girl seriously wounded with two or three bullets in her abdomen.
The girl is still alive and claims that she had killed Speff and shot herself, and that she wished to die as they wanted to die together.
She borrowed the revolver from a Wheaton hardware store this afternoon.
The coroner, sheriff and county attorney are on the scene. It seems to be a complicated love affair.
The Minneapolis Tribune; “Murder at Wheaton; Young
Girl Confesses to Shooting Lover; And Then Attempting to Kill Herself as the
Two Wished to Die Together—Complicated Love Affair.”; May 26, 1905; p. 1.The girl is still alive and claims that she had killed Speff and shot herself, and that she wished to die as they wanted to die together.
She borrowed the revolver from a Wheaton hardware store this afternoon.
The coroner, sheriff and county attorney are on the scene. It seems to be a complicated love affair.
http://cityofwheaton.com/
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