CITERS, Mr. and Mrs. – Died 1897

CITERS

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 11/7/2024 at 16:45:11

Source: Decorah Republican July 15, 1897 P 3 C 1, 2

—Mitchell county has a murder case on its hands; but the murderer followed his deed up with a suicide. A Pole named Citers, owned a 160-acre farm; he and his wife lived a troublesome life —continually quarreling, especially when drunk. Saturday night, July 3d, they quarreled more bitterly than ever and the wife tried to escape to a neighbor’s. He followed and tried to persuade her to return home. Failing in this he shot her with a shot gun loaded with buckshot, and then killed himself with a pistol shot into his jugglar{sic} vein. The two corpses were found Sunday morning, side by side.