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- Niagara Gazette - 11/5/1930
WTTTKOPPDied, in this city Nov. 3. 1930.
Louis Wlttkopp, aged 21 years, son of
Albert C. Wittkopp; brother of Carl of
this city. Private funeral services will be
held from Dykstra Bros, Funeral Parlors
Thursday afternoon
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Niagara Gazette - 11/4/1930
Locked In a cell at police headquarters
on a disorderly charge last night,
Louis Wittkopp, 21 years old, 1506 Linwood
avenue, .hanged himself with his
belt.. His body was found dangling
from the bars of his cell at 11:30 o'clock
last night by Patrolman Anson Lalone
when the officer made a round of the
cell room on the first floor to look over
the prisoners. Lalone cut. the belt
with his knife, releasing the youth, but
Wittkopp was dead.
Wittkopp had been arested at 5:30
o'clock yesterday afternoon by Patrolman
Raymond Confer. With him was
arrested his father, Albert C. Wittkopp,
52 years old, also of 1506 Llnwood avenue.
Confer said the father and son
had been fighting on the street at
Pierce avenue and Fifteenth street and
had been creating a disturbance. Resi
Residents
of the neighborhood had complained
to police.
When young Wittkopp ended his life
his father occupied the cell next to
his. The elder Wittkopp was asleep
when Lalone discovered his son's body.
Awakened by the comotion that resulted
in the discovery of. his son's
lifeless form hanging from the cell
bars, the father sensed that something
was wrong and asked police if his son
had ended his life. They magnanimously
assured him that he had not and
removed the father to a cell on the
upper floor, detaining him in headquarters
all. night as a precaution for
his own safety.
Coroner W. L. Draper said that young
Wittkopp had been dead only a short
time when discovered by Lalone. The
body was sent to the Dykstra funeral
chapel to be prepared for burial. Besides
his father, young Wittkopp is
survived by a bother, Carl, this city.
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