Carl Edward Kruse
Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin)
1932 October 27
Milwaukee Authorities Seek Vandals who Removed Casket
Milwaukee Oct. 27 (AP) Vandals who stole a coffin containing the mummified body of an infant from a small blockstone mausoleum in an old buring ground on the edge of the city were sought by authorities here today.
Found on Street
The body, found on a street here early yesterday, is that of Carl Edward Kruse, who died and was buried in 1914 at the age of three onths. Identification was made at the county morgue last night by the father, Alfred F. Kruse, a druggist.
Entry into the crumbling mausoleum was gained by breaking the heavy crossbars of the door. The small casket had been carried about eight miles from its resting place. Five other caskets in the tomb were untouched.
Puzzled Officials
With only the inscription “Our Darling” on the nameplate as a guide, authorities were puzzling over the identity of the infant when Deputy Sheriff’s Eugene Netz and George Hanlon recalled they had investigated the desecration of a sepulcher in the town of Milwaukee cemetery about a year ago.
The deputies found the mausoleum had been entered again. From Harvey Grober, former sexton, they learned that Kruse had provided for reinterring the bodies on the occasion of the complaint ayear ago. Kruse was called by Undersheriff Joseph Klein and identified the casket.