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Milwaukee, Aug. 25.—The mystery
which surrounded the liuding of the
bodies of a woman and a child in the
Milwaukee river has been solved and
I the case proves to be one of the most
shocking murders that was ever com
mitted in Milwaukee.
■ Fbe woman was Mrs. Ollie King, of
31*0 Grand avenue, and the child was
| her (5-year-old daughter Grace. Mother
and child were strangled and afterward
thrown into the river by Gustav
Seharff. of SSO Van Bnren street. For
i the past two years Mrs. King has been
his mistress. Scharlf has made a com
plete ionfesslon and he is now a pris
oner at the central police station.
1 bi v motive for the crime was
Seharff* s desire to relieve himself from
the liaison. The woman would have
had another child in about four months
ami she had insisted that Seharff should
marry her. Scharff’s relatives were
not aware of his intimacy with (he
woman and he was afraid that she
would make trouble unless he married
her. He decided to put both mother
and child out of the way.. The deed
was most carefully premeditated and
, Scharlf thought that his plans were
so well laid that there was not the
slightest danger of detection.
