Word: oesterreichs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Angeles, Calif., eight years ago, detectives found Walburga Oesterreich in a closet opening into the room in which her husband, Fred Oesterreich, apron manufacturer, lay murdered. Because the door of the closet was locked from the outside, she was never tried for murder...
Last week one Herman Shapiro told police that a Walter Klein had confessed to the murder of Fred Oesterreich, caused Klein to be arrested. Police-headquarters announced the results of an investigation. They said that Mrs. Oesterreich had become friendly with Walter Klein 18 years ago, had described him as her "vagabond half-brother." While the Oesterreichs lived in Milwaukee, Walter Klein inhabited a secret room in their house, unknown to Fred Oesterreich. When they moved to Los Angeles, another secret room, like the first, was constructed for Walburga Oesterreich's vagabond halfbrother. Herman Shapiro said that Klein...