Albert Ignatz Adam

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-143724
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Catholic
• Occupation: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Agricultural Laborer
• Occupation: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Apprentice Blacksmith
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic
• Occupation: 1898, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; blacksmith
• Occupation: 1898, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Blacksmith
• Crime: 1910; murdered wife

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Terrible Tragedy At Weissenburg

Albert Adam, Blacksmith, Kills His Wife and Shoots Himself. Inquest Will Be Held.

A terrible tragedy occurred at Weissenberg, near New Germany, on Wednesday afternoon at four o'clock when Albert Adam, blacksmith at that village shot his wife and killed himself. It appears the couple had been quarreling, their three children having been taken away from the parents some time ago and resided at the hotel at that place. The day previous he had given his wife a sum of money and yesterday he asked that the money be returned. She refused to comply with his request and he forthwith went to Guelph where he bought a revolver and returning met his wife on the road near the railway and shot her dead. He was afterwards found dead in the parlor of his home having also taken his own life. He was about 38 years old and his wife 32 years of age. The coroner from Guelph was summoned and an inquest will be held.

The Chronicle Telegraph 7 Apr 1910, p. 4

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LICENSE SALE OF FIREARMS

Result of Inquest of Adams Tragedy at Ariss on April 5th

Guelph, April 11 - Coroner Dr. H. C. McLean and his jury resumed their inquest into the death of Mrs. Mary Adams at 10.30 this morning in the Adams home, and in the same room in which Adams committed the act which occasioned this inquiry.

The first witness called was Louisa Hauck, the young wqman who was aiding Mrs. Adams to do the house cleaning at the time of the shooting. Her testimony threw practically no further light on the matter, but she did establish beyond doubt the fact that the direct cause of the shooting was that Mrs. Adams refused to deliver to her husband the $100 which his brother, Ignatz Adams, had paid him on a note the previous Saturday. Adams came up and knocked at the door, but Mrs. Adams told Miss Hauck to say that she (Mrs Adams) was not in there, which she
did.

The evidence of Michael Meyer the man who gave Adams a drive home from Guelph, cleared up the question of what became, of the four bullets which had been discharged. He stated that just after they had passed Marden, Adams took out the revolver and loaded it and fired one shot. This shot, the one which killed Mrs. Adams, the one which taken out of the wall by Constable Merewether, and the one with which Adams killed himself, made up the four which were discharged, and leave no doubt as to how many shots were fired by Adams in the house. Major Merewether and Constable Young detailed the state of affairs when they arrived, and also stated that they had searched the house an been unable to find the money which Mrs. Adams told Miss Hauck she had hidden from her husband.

The jury's verdict was as follows: "That Mary Adams came to her death in the township of Pilkington, on the 6th day of April, 1910, as the result of a bullet wound inflicted by her husband, Albert Adams, with muderous intent."

They added a very strong recommendation, to be sent to the Attorney-General, in the matter of the careless and indiscriminate use and
sale of firearms.

The Chronicle Telegraph, 21 Apr 1910, p. 2

Albert married Mary Jane Reinhart 27 Jul 1898, Maryhill (New Germany) Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario. Mary (daughter of Henry Reinhart and Sarah Seifried) was born 25 Dec 1879, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 6 Apr 1910, Weissenburg, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-146230

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-452661
• Residence: 1911, Maryhill (New Germany) Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario; Roman Catholic

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ADAMS, Hugh A. At the Tampa General Hospital, Florida, on Sunday, Jan. 4, 1976, suddenly following a heart attack, while winter vacationing, Hugh Albert Adams, of 188 Lawrence Ave., aged 72 years.

Mr. Adams was born in Ariss, a son of the late Albert Adams and the former Mary Reinhardt; a lifelong resident of the Twin City area and founder of H. Adams and Sons Cartage and Movers and proprietor of the Hugh Adams Warehousing Company; a member of St. John's RC Church and The Pioneer Steam Engine Club of Ontario.

Mr. Adams was predeceased by his wife the former Caroline Trupp, in 1948, a daughter Lorraine in 1934 and a brother Carl.

Surviving are his wife the former Lola Hertzberger and four sons, Robert, Jerome, William and Murray, all of Kitchener; a sister Mrs. Alma Jehu of Toronto; eight grandchildren and one great-granddaughter Jennifer also survive.

Friends may call at the Ratz Bechtel Funeral Home, 621 King St. W., Kitchener afternoon on Wednesday, where the parish rosary will be recited Thursday at 8:15 p.m. Prayers will be said at the funeral home on Friday, at 9:30 a.m., followed by funeral mass at St. John's RC Church at 10 a.m. Interment Mount Hope RC cemetery.

Donations to the Bolivian Mission Fund may be made as expressions of sympathy.

K-W Record, Mon Jan 5, 1976

Hugh — Caroline O. Troupe. Caroline was born 20 Jan 1903, Teeswater, Culross Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario; died 30 Jan 1948; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Hugh — Lola Clara Hertzberger. Lola (daughter of Albert Hertzberger and Clara Amanda Hoffman) was born 26 Mar 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1991; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-146231

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