The People v. Lehne

In January of 1934 Charles Puhse and his family resided in Granite City, Illinois. He was then forty-eight years old, and his wife, Gertrude, to whom he had been married twenty-five years and who was his junior by four years, lived with him. Of this marriage two children had been borne — Mildred, aged twenty-two, and Earl, aged nineteen. Both of these children lived with their parents. In the early morning hours of the 26th of that month Puhse was murdered in his bed, being instantly killed by a 32-calibre revolver bullet fired into his temple while he slept, from a gun in the hands of the…