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Cleveland Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio)- Thu, 18 Apr 1907

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Case File: Charles Albert Breitwieser (1907)

[Link to original at Newspapers.com]– Page 2, Column 1

STRUCK DOWN
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Collector is Probably Dying
in Hospital as Result of 
Argument.

C.A. Breitweiser, aged thirty, 1236 E. 113th-st., collector for the Schuster Wine Co., 6312 St. Clair-av., was struck on the head with a billiard cue last night and lies at St. Clair hospital in a critical condition. In the saloon of Leopold Kolakowski, 1121 E. 79th-st., he became engaged in an argument, the police say.

Late last night Breitweiser’s young wife and his child were called to the hospital. His skull is fractured.