W.J. Dunker

DUNKER

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 9/7/2014 at 11:34:24

RIVER CAPTAIN FINDS BODY OF W. J. DUNKER

Lone Star Skipper Sights corpse of Missing credit Manager.

Less than three days after he leaped to his death in the Mississippi river, the body of W. J. Dunker, 53, 717 west Eighth street, credit manager of the Crescent Electric supply Co. as found floating in the river across from Credit Island. The body was found by Charles White captain of the Lone Star of the builders Sand & Gravel Co. fleet.

White reported finding of the body to the headquarters of the lock and dam crew in the clock tower. An inquest will be held at 7 tonight in the Hodgson and Hoban mortuary to which the body was taken and from which it will be transferred this afternoon to the Runge mortuary.

Dunker who had been head of the Crescents credit department for three years, left a note with his coat and hat on the ground near the sea wall east of the roller dam Friday afternoon. In the note he indicated fear of losing his mind because of financial worries. His widow and four children survive.

Source: Davenport Democrat and Leader, Davenport, Ia., 01 Jun 1936, p. 15.