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Persoonlijke gegevens Caroline Fisher 

• Zij is geboren in het jaar 1874 in St Louis, Missouri, USA.
• Zij is overleden op 31 mei 1938 in Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, Verenigde Staten, zij was toen 64 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Morris L Fisher en Ester Ernestine Kober

Gezin van Caroline Fisher

Zij is getrouwd met Abraham Col Slupski.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1896 te St Louis, Missouri, USA, zij was toen 22 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Clara Belle Slupski  ± 1880-????
2. Morris Amedee Slupski  1896-1960
3. Sol Salomon Edward Slupski  1899-1985
4. Abraham Slupski  1902-1967
5. Elda D Slupski  1905-1996 

Notities over Caroline Fisher

Mrs. Caroline Slupski, 67, widow of a well-known former Republican Partyward boss and beer industry lobbyist in St. Louis, had been shot in the abdomen at or near her front door. And the prime suspect was her daughter, Mrs. Elda Duke, 33, a mother of two, who claimed to have been on the second floor of the house doing household tasks at the time of the shooting.

To complicate the police investigation, telephone lines inside the 14-room house at 3852 Lindell Blvd. on both the first and second floors had been cut and a .38-caliber revolver known to be in the house was missing.

At the time of the shooting, both Duke children were at school; Mrs. Dukes husband, Orell, an Illinois Central Railroad telegrapher, was at work in Rosiclaire, Ill., 170 miles away from St. Louis; and Mrs. Slupskis four sons were at their places of employment. The only people known to be in the house were Mrs. Slupski and her daughter.

Mrs. Duke initially told police she had heard a scream and a shot, ran down the stairs and found her mother staggering in the front hall about five feet from the front door. She helped her mother to the floor. Mrs. Duke said her mother three times told her not to go near the door, which was standing open. When she tried to telephone for help, Mrs. Duke quickly discovered the phone wires had been cut and called out a window to men working on the front lawn of the Arthur J. Donnelly funeral home next door to ask them to call a doctor for her mother.
No vehement denials, no tears, nor emotion marked Mrs. Dukes answers [to reporters] as to why she might have been held as a suspect in her mothers shooting, the unnamed Globe-Democrat reporter wrote. There was rather a truculence of a spoiled child, being detained against her will. She spoke with a half smile, and in spite of red rimmed eyes was composed and quiet.

She was described further as tiny and blonde. Yesterday at Police Headquarters she wore an ill-fitting shabby black dress and light tan sandals. She wore no hat.

The June 4 Globe article, mentioning the late Abe Slupskis $144,911 [later reported as $149,847] estate left in trust for his widow and children since his October 1936 death, commented: Although Col. Slupski left his widow well provided, and apparently his daughter as an heir might have been expected to be comfortably off, Mrs. Duke did not give the impression of having money. Neither her dress nor her shoes, nor the permanent in her blond hair, had the air of costing too much.

It was not immediately obvious that Mrs. Slupski had been shot, but she was bleeding and in pain.
Caroline Fisher Slupski with her second-oldest son, Sol Edward Slupski.

Mrs. Slupski, who reportedly had poor eyesight and hearing, had in fact been shot in the left hip and suffered an exit wound in the right front side of her abdomen. When police did arrive, the injured woman told them that she had not heard any doorbell and had not seen anyone on the front porch. When she heard the shot and felt the pain, she thought someone had thrown a bomb. It was not known exactly why she had gone to the front door, but a plumber had been expected and Mrs. Slupski had plans to go to a bank that morning.

After the shooting, Mrs. Slupski was found to be wearing her two diamond rings, and scattered on the front porch were three unsigned checks totaling $570 and a few coins. The checks, proceeds from her husbands sizeable estate, had been inside her purse, which was found open on the floor, police said, according to the local neWroclaw, Silesia, Polandaper reports.

She was taken in a police patrol vehicle to Jewish Hospital, where she was in grave condition and received a blood transfusion.

One of Mrs. Slupskis sons, Abe Jr., told police that the missing .38-caliber revolver had belonged to him and he had kept it in his bedroom dresser in the house on Lindell until about three months earlier, when his mother took it from him. She had put it in a dresser drawer in another second-floor room, Abe Jr. said, but it wasnt there after his mother was shot. The last time he saw the gun, it was fully loaded, he told the police.

Mrs. Duke told police that her mother had told her some time earlier that she had moved the gun, but didnt tell her where she had placed it.
The afternoon of the same day as her mothers shooting, Mrs. Duke was taken to police headquarters in downtown St. Louis and a paraffin test was performed on her hands. The left hand was negative, but the right showed traces of nitrate, which, according to the police technicians, indicated that she had recently fired a gun.

Because of the paraffin test and because Mrs. Duke had been the only other person known to be in the house at the time of Mrs. Slupskis shooting, St. Louis Assistant Circuit Atty. James E. McLaughlin ordered Mrs. Duke held for further questioning.

She was questioned by the police and the prosecutor for more than four hours on Friday, June 3, three days after the shooting. Mrs. Duke reiterated her explanation of what she had seen and heard, denied shooting her mother and said she could not explain the positive paraffin test results.

On Friday, June 17, Mrs. Slupskis will was filed in Probate Court. Her estate was worth an estimated $30,000, including $10,000 in real property. It provided bequests of $500 each to her five grandchildren and divided the rest among her five children. The family of her son Sol Slupski was to be allowed to continue to live in the house at 7228 Pennsylvania Ave. for rent of $10 per month.

At some point after Mrs. Slupskis death, Mrs. Duke and her children, a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, moved out of the house on Lindell and relocated to 711 Syracuse Ave. in University City.

On Saturday, Feb. 18, after both sides summarized their cases; At 5 p.m., after only 2u hours of deliberation and one ballot, the jury brought forward a verdict of not guilty, causing many of the nearly 200 spectators in the courtroom to applaud. When she heard the decision, Mrs. Duke buried her face in a handkerchief, then rose and walked toward the jurors, apparently with the intention of thanking them, at the same time as a group of well-wishers approached to congratulate her. In the excitement, the Star-Times noted, Mrs. Duke fainted.

She was taken to a witness room where ice and stimulants were used to revive her. Her brothers and husband were present in the courtroom. Her children had not been present during the trial.

Throughout the ordeal, the Post-Dispatch noted, she had made almost no showing of emotion.
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