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John Degler 1856 - 1909

DEGLER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 6/12/2021 at 20:55:33

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Nov. 12, 1909, 4, C5, 6

SON CHARGED WITH SLAYING HIS FATHER
John Degler of Muscatine Found Dead With Two Bullet Holes in His Head.
Did Frank Degler, aged twenty-six of Muscatine slay his aged father with two bullet holes in the head and then disappear?
The coroner’s jury thinks so and has issued a warrant for his arrest.
Mrs. Degler left her husband and son at home after cooking supper for them, and went on a visit of a week at Iowa City with relatives. When she returned home she found the house locked. Forcing an entrance through a window, she found her husband’s dead and badly decomposed body lying on the floor.
The authorities were notified and made an examination. They found the supper cooked by Mrs. Degler before she left a week previous, untouched on the table. There were two bullet holes in Degler’s head, both made by bullets from a 38-caliber revolver.
This spelled murder to the authorities and the coroner issued a warrant for the arrest of the son, Frank Degler, who had been at home when the wife and mother left on her visit, but has not been seen since.
Young Degler was of a quarrelsome disposition and had served one term in the state penitentiary. The authorities all over the country are looking for him. The coroner thinks father and son quarreled and the murder followed.
County Attorney Irvin Pepper of Muscatine appeared before Governor Carroll at Des Moines in an effort to induce the state to put up a reward for the arrest of Frank Degler. It is understood the county attorney was successful in his effort and that Governor Carroll will place a reward upon the head of Degler.

Transcriber’sNote: Find a Grave shows he is buried in Saint Mary’s Cemetery and was born June 14, 1856 and died October 28, 1909.


 

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