Campbellsport News, April 11, 1918

SHOT WIFE AND SELF

  While crazed by liquor, John Mathieu, aged 58, a painter residing at Kewaskum shot and wounded his wife, Mrs. Christina Snyder Mathieu, aged 62, and then fired two shots into his own body in an attempt to end his life at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. August Grissman, 130 Rose street, Fond du Lac, late Tuesday afternoon. The man and woman are now in St. Agnes' hospital and it is believed that both will recover.
   Mrs. Mathieu left her husband on Tuesday of last week and went to Fond du Lac intending to make her home with her sister, Mrs. Grissman, for a time and then to go to Milwaukee. She received a letter from her husband Monday, but it contained no intimation of his intention to visit Fond du Lac.
   Tuesday afternoon he appeared at the Grissman home and after several hours of arguing and quarreling he shot his wife and then himself.
   Mathieu is well known here having resided on east Main street in this village for a number of years ago, later moving onto a farm south of Elmore.