Tag: May 1923
Wisconsin Motor Bus Co. Fights for Permit, Milwaukee, WI, 1923
It’s a dog-eat-dog world in the city’s transportation scene, and the Milwaukee Suburban Motor Coach Lines just got a taste of the bitter pill. The company’s bid to run 28 double-decker buses between the northeast side and the Washington Park district was put on ice by the city’s Public Utilities Committee. In a heated hearing,…
Leona Ortleib and Ellen Frieda Ortleib, Drowning, Fayetteville AR, 1923
Fayettville, Arkansas – May 3, 1923 – A torrential downpour swept through Washington County like a deadly demon, claiming the lives of a devoted mother and her innocent daughter. Leona Ortleib, 33, and her 7-year-old daughter Ellen Frieda were returning home from a shopping trip to Prairie Grove, just 11 miles west of Fayetteville, when…
Leighton Mount, Hazing Death, Illinois 1921
Chicago, May 2, 1923 – In a shocking revelation, the gruesome discovery of a skeleton in a Lake Michigan pier has led police to believe that it is the body of Leighton Mount, a Northwestern University freshman who mysteriously disappeared in 1921. The body was found by a small boy playing near the pier on…
