HENRY VOECKELL MURDERED
[New Bremen Sun – 3/26/1925]
A somewhat belated message reached local relatives of Henry Voeckell Thursday evening announcing that he had been murdered in his drug store in Los Angeles Tuesday evening.
He had been held up by robbers and, refusing to submit, and resisting them, was dealt with so roughly that his death ensued Wednesday morning at the emergency hospital.
He had last been to New Bremen about four years ago when he took with him his bride, Frieda Boesel. She, along with a 2 year old son, Charles, survive him.
Other survivors include his aunt, Mrs. Theodore (Antoinette Voeckell) Purpus, and Charles J. Boesel and Mrs. John (Wilhelmine Boesel) McKenna, brother and sister of Mrs. Voeckell.
The Los Angeles Evening Herald of March 18, 1925 gave this account:
"The immensity of the huge fortune possessed by Henry Voeckell, eccentric druggist who was brutally beaten and murdered last night during a robbery of his store at 1801 Central Ave. was revealed today as police detectives sought the slayers.
Living in a modest little cottage near his store, Henry actually enjoyed revenues rivaling those of a merchant prince. He possessed gilt-edged mortgages and other securities valued at more than $100,000; he owned an entire block of business buildings and lots between 18th and 19th Streets on Central Ave. where his store was located; he owned several large business lots on Maple St. between 6th and 7th Streets; important Wilshire Blvd. frontage lots, and choice lots in other residential districts.
Yet, Henry Voeckell slaved in his little drugstore, hoarding his money and continually devising schemes to prevent the theft of any of his treasure. Much of his money, it is believed, is hidden about the premises of his home and his store. He set a bear trap near his cash register so that thieves would step into the trap and get a broken leg or two. But the bandits who killed Voeckell escaped the trap.
Five attempts were made to rob the establishment during the last two years. Each time Voeckell defied the thugs and drove them away by exceptional displays of nerve and aggressiveness. But last night two or more bandits crept up to the strange huddled figure of the eccentric druggist as he pored over some papers and surprised him. He was struck on the head with heavy weapons and collapsed as the bandits looted the store of money.
When customers failed to get any response to knocks on the counter, they called Mrs. Voeckell at their residence a few blocks away. She found her husband's body. He died a short time afterward at the hospital without recovering consciousness."
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FATHER: Christian Voeckell
MOTHER: Friedolinde Kaiser
1ST SPOUSE: Annie L. Clark (m. 2/8/1892)
[New Bremen Sun – 3/26/1925]
A somewhat belated message reached local relatives of Henry Voeckell Thursday evening announcing that he had been murdered in his drug store in Los Angeles Tuesday evening.
He had been held up by robbers and, refusing to submit, and resisting them, was dealt with so roughly that his death ensued Wednesday morning at the emergency hospital.
He had last been to New Bremen about four years ago when he took with him his bride, Frieda Boesel. She, along with a 2 year old son, Charles, survive him.
Other survivors include his aunt, Mrs. Theodore (Antoinette Voeckell) Purpus, and Charles J. Boesel and Mrs. John (Wilhelmine Boesel) McKenna, brother and sister of Mrs. Voeckell.
The Los Angeles Evening Herald of March 18, 1925 gave this account:
"The immensity of the huge fortune possessed by Henry Voeckell, eccentric druggist who was brutally beaten and murdered last night during a robbery of his store at 1801 Central Ave. was revealed today as police detectives sought the slayers.
Living in a modest little cottage near his store, Henry actually enjoyed revenues rivaling those of a merchant prince. He possessed gilt-edged mortgages and other securities valued at more than $100,000; he owned an entire block of business buildings and lots between 18th and 19th Streets on Central Ave. where his store was located; he owned several large business lots on Maple St. between 6th and 7th Streets; important Wilshire Blvd. frontage lots, and choice lots in other residential districts.
Yet, Henry Voeckell slaved in his little drugstore, hoarding his money and continually devising schemes to prevent the theft of any of his treasure. Much of his money, it is believed, is hidden about the premises of his home and his store. He set a bear trap near his cash register so that thieves would step into the trap and get a broken leg or two. But the bandits who killed Voeckell escaped the trap.
Five attempts were made to rob the establishment during the last two years. Each time Voeckell defied the thugs and drove them away by exceptional displays of nerve and aggressiveness. But last night two or more bandits crept up to the strange huddled figure of the eccentric druggist as he pored over some papers and surprised him. He was struck on the head with heavy weapons and collapsed as the bandits looted the store of money.
When customers failed to get any response to knocks on the counter, they called Mrs. Voeckell at their residence a few blocks away. She found her husband's body. He died a short time afterward at the hospital without recovering consciousness."
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FATHER: Christian Voeckell
MOTHER: Friedolinde Kaiser
1ST SPOUSE: Annie L. Clark (m. 2/8/1892)
HENRY VOECKELL MURDERED
[New Bremen Sun – 3/26/1925]
A somewhat belated message reached local relatives of Henry Voeckell Thursday evening announcing that he had been murdered in his drug store in Los Angeles Tuesday evening.
He had been held up by robbers and, refusing to submit, and resisting them, was dealt with so roughly that his death ensued Wednesday morning at the emergency hospital.
He had last been to New Bremen about four years ago when he took with him his bride, Frieda Boesel. She, along with a 2 year old son, Charles, survive him.
Other survivors include his aunt, Mrs. Theodore (Antoinette Voeckell) Purpus, and Charles J. Boesel and Mrs. John (Wilhelmine Boesel) McKenna, brother and sister of Mrs. Voeckell.
The Los Angeles Evening Herald of March 18, 1925 gave this account:
"The immensity of the huge fortune possessed by Henry Voeckell, eccentric druggist who was brutally beaten and murdered last night during a robbery of his store at 1801 Central Ave. was revealed today as police detectives sought the slayers.
Living in a modest little cottage near his store, Henry actually enjoyed revenues rivaling those of a merchant prince. He possessed gilt-edged mortgages and other securities valued at more than $100,000; he owned an entire block of business buildings and lots between 18th and 19th Streets on Central Ave. where his store was located; he owned several large business lots on Maple St. between 6th and 7th Streets; important Wilshire Blvd. frontage lots, and choice lots in other residential districts.
Yet, Henry Voeckell slaved in his little drugstore, hoarding his money and continually devising schemes to prevent the theft of any of his treasure. Much of his money, it is believed, is hidden about the premises of his home and his store. He set a bear trap near his cash register so that thieves would step into the trap and get a broken leg or two. But the bandits who killed Voeckell escaped the trap.
Five attempts were made to rob the establishment during the last two years. Each time Voeckell defied the thugs and drove them away by exceptional displays of nerve and aggressiveness. But last night two or more bandits crept up to the strange huddled figure of the eccentric druggist as he pored over some papers and surprised him. He was struck on the head with heavy weapons and collapsed as the bandits looted the store of money.
When customers failed to get any response to knocks on the counter, they called Mrs. Voeckell at their residence a few blocks away. She found her husband's body. He died a short time afterward at the hospital without recovering consciousness."
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FATHER: Christian Voeckell
MOTHER: Friedolinde Kaiser
1ST SPOUSE: Annie L. Clark (m. 2/8/1892)
[New Bremen Sun – 3/26/1925]
A somewhat belated message reached local relatives of Henry Voeckell Thursday evening announcing that he had been murdered in his drug store in Los Angeles Tuesday evening.
He had been held up by robbers and, refusing to submit, and resisting them, was dealt with so roughly that his death ensued Wednesday morning at the emergency hospital.
He had last been to New Bremen about four years ago when he took with him his bride, Frieda Boesel. She, along with a 2 year old son, Charles, survive him.
Other survivors include his aunt, Mrs. Theodore (Antoinette Voeckell) Purpus, and Charles J. Boesel and Mrs. John (Wilhelmine Boesel) McKenna, brother and sister of Mrs. Voeckell.
The Los Angeles Evening Herald of March 18, 1925 gave this account:
"The immensity of the huge fortune possessed by Henry Voeckell, eccentric druggist who was brutally beaten and murdered last night during a robbery of his store at 1801 Central Ave. was revealed today as police detectives sought the slayers.
Living in a modest little cottage near his store, Henry actually enjoyed revenues rivaling those of a merchant prince. He possessed gilt-edged mortgages and other securities valued at more than $100,000; he owned an entire block of business buildings and lots between 18th and 19th Streets on Central Ave. where his store was located; he owned several large business lots on Maple St. between 6th and 7th Streets; important Wilshire Blvd. frontage lots, and choice lots in other residential districts.
Yet, Henry Voeckell slaved in his little drugstore, hoarding his money and continually devising schemes to prevent the theft of any of his treasure. Much of his money, it is believed, is hidden about the premises of his home and his store. He set a bear trap near his cash register so that thieves would step into the trap and get a broken leg or two. But the bandits who killed Voeckell escaped the trap.
Five attempts were made to rob the establishment during the last two years. Each time Voeckell defied the thugs and drove them away by exceptional displays of nerve and aggressiveness. But last night two or more bandits crept up to the strange huddled figure of the eccentric druggist as he pored over some papers and surprised him. He was struck on the head with heavy weapons and collapsed as the bandits looted the store of money.
When customers failed to get any response to knocks on the counter, they called Mrs. Voeckell at their residence a few blocks away. She found her husband's body. He died a short time afterward at the hospital without recovering consciousness."
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FATHER: Christian Voeckell
MOTHER: Friedolinde Kaiser
1ST SPOUSE: Annie L. Clark (m. 2/8/1892)
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