Bertha Meintz c1891 – 1908
MEINTZ
Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 6/12/2021 at 20:55:33
Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer July 17, 1908, 2, C5
Woman Accused of Murder.
Mrs. Mary Rose of Muscatine has been arrested at Peoria, charged with the murder of Miss Bertha Meintz, a pretty seventeen-year-old girl of Muscatine, whose body was found floating in the Mississippi, The body was found lying on a sand bar and showed traces of foul play, the throat being cut and the head crushed. . Mrs. Rose claims the girl was kicked in the head by a mule and that she was afraid to tell the authorities.
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