- Police/Fire - Janesville Sesquicentennial
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- The murder that wasn't
- Janesville police were baffled briefly on Jan. 27, 1949,
the day they thought they stumbled onto a
- murder.
- Charles WUNDER, 547 S. Franklin, told police he saw
two men in the street, one of them in a
- heap, after waking up to the sound of gunshots.
- Before the man fell, WUNDER said he heard the words,
"Well, Alwin, have you had enough?"
- then the sound of gunshots as the victim rose to his feet
and tried to stagger to the curb.
- Police called to the scene shortly after midnight were skeptical.
They found no body, no blood.
- Nonetheless, WUNDER maintained the murder or something
like it happened, so police checked
- out the story. Their investigation led to two 18-year-olds,
one of whom had obtained a .22-caliber starter's pistol for use
in a Milton College play.
- The boys, who decided to let the street be their stage that
day, wound up reprimand and a
- misdemeanor charge.
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