Marie Mauget
Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, 23 August 1909, page 12
SCREAMS
The body of Marie Mauget, wife of Charles Mauget, a retired
merchant tailor of 813 Monroe street, Newport Ky. was found by her husband at
the bottom of a flight of stairs leading to her bedroom on the third floor of
the house yesterday morning. Mrs. Mauget, who was formerly Mrs. Schebeck,
was in her usual condition when she retired Saturday night. At 7:30 am yesterday
morning her husband notified the family of Henry Lohman, who resides at 817
Monroe street, that he had found his wife's body.
Mrs. Mauget wore only a night dress and a pair of slippers. Her body was in a cramped position and there was a wound over the right eye. On her neck were finger nail marks dug in from the right side. There was also a bad bruise on the left leg. Coroner Digby decided it could only have been caused by a cerebral hemorrhage. About 5:45 am Mrs. Lohman heard a woman scream. The cries came from the Mauget home and Mrs. Lohman thought that the other members of the family were at home.
The dead woman was about 54 years of age and had been married about two years.
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Cincinnati, Wednesday, Wednesday, 25 August 1909, page 14
WOMAN WAS SLAIN
The result of the post mortem, held yesterday morning on Mary Mauget, wife of Charles Mauget, indicated that some person strangled the woman to death and threw her down the stairs in an effort to make it appear that her death was the result of a fall. The post mortem developed the following facts:
First, the heart and brain were perfectly normal and there were no heart lesions;
Second, there had been no cerebral hemorrhage and the external injuries were superficial and could not have been fatal;
Third, the ericoid cartilage, or Adams' apple was fractured. This could only have been caused by great pressure and could not have been exerted by the deceased. Death was due to strangulation.
The testimony showed that the cries heard by the neighbors emanated from the sleeping room occupied by Mrs. Mauget and that they did not come from the location where the body was discovered. This tends to support the theory that she was attacked in her own room and then dragged to the stairway. This would account for the presence of her hair, dragged through the rug at the head of the stair.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Wednesday, 1 September 1909, page 14
The promised sensation in the Mauget murder case came yesterday with the arrest by Detectives Morton and Sheeran of Charles Mauget, aged husband of the dead woman, on a charge of having willfully murdered her.
Mauget protests that he is innocent and a victim of circumstance, that he was not around the house at the time of death. He claims he arose at 5 am, and went down the rear stairs. He walked out into the East End returning home at 6:30 am. This alibi is not supported by evidence, for Mauget has no far brought no one whom he met on his walk, although it was time for early mass and many persons in that end of town attend St Stephen Church.
A preliminary hearing will be given Mauget by County Judge Moore at 2 pm tomorrow.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Thursday, 9 September 1909, page 15
Yesterday morning Charles Mauget was charged with the murder of his wife, Mary Mauget. It was stated that the defense will try to prove her death was the result of accidental injuries. He claimed that he sprinkled the back yard shortly after he arose on the morning of the murder. Mr. and Mrs. Lohman, who reside next door were positive that the yard was not sprinkled.
Miss Bertha Schebeck, a daughter of the murdered woman, testified that Mauget and his wife did not live happily together and they often had violet quarrels, generally over money affairs. She said that after her mother was killed she made a search for an iron box that her mother had kept about the house and which contained her father's will and that when she finally located it, the will was gone. She further stated that during these quarrels, Mauget used terrible language toward her mother. A number of other witnesses were heard saying the same.