CLAUSEN, Richard c1883-1898

CLAUSEN

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 2/8/2021 at 05:45:28

Source: Decorah Republican Mar. 3, 1898 P 3 C 2

Murder and Suicide at Reinbeck.
Reinbeck, Iowa, Feb —Richard Clausen, 15 years old, shot Minnie Foght, probably fatally, yesterday afternoon, and then hanged himself to a rafter in the barn. The crime was committed out of revenge for the refusal to lend him a gun to go hunting.