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|Brunskill, Frank W. | |||
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* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/186919299/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 5 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star)]: New Clue Spurs Girl Killer Hunt - Two Friends of Student are Sought | * [https://www.newspapers.com/image/186919299/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 5 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star)]: New Clue Spurs Girl Killer Hunt - Two Friends of Student are Sought | ||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/182429205/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 5 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune)]: Night Prowler Sought on Tip in Girl's Death | * [https://www.newspapers.com/image/182429205/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 5 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune)]: Night Prowler Sought on Tip in Girl's Death | ||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/178663853/?match=1&terms=brutal%20murder%20Minneapolis 2 Nov | * [https://www.newspapers.com/image/182430162/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 6 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune)]: Police Halted in Search for Girl's Slayer | ||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/186920856/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 6 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star)]: Funderal Held for Girl Victim of Strangler - Police Pursue all Clues to Slayer Without Results. | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/182431002/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 7 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune)]: Police Follow Single Clue in Murder Case | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/811622521/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 7 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal)]: Clues Point to Murder of Slain Girl's Escort | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/182431911/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 8 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune)]: Girl's Slayer Still Eluding Police Search | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/186925717/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 8 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star)]: Sleuth Goes to Pelican Rapids in Killer Hunt | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/811622858/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 8 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal)]: Detective Goes North for Clue in Girl's Murder | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/182436150/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 10 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune)]: Police Trace New Clue in Girl's Death | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/186927590/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 10 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star)]: Police Trail Infatuated Youth; Watch Found Stolen | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/182436589/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 11 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune)]: Osten Girl's Watch Subject of Search | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/811565189/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 11 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal)]: Girl Murder Inquiry Leads to Moorhead | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/182437780/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 12 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune)]: Letters Give Hope of Clue in Osten Case | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/186930225/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 12 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star)]: Police Obtain Slain Girl's Last Letter | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/186933134/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 13 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star)]: Slayer Hunt is Continued | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/811565861/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 13 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal)]: Mrs. Kempf called to see photo of body found, not the man seen with Pearl | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/186949054/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 22 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star)]: New Pearl Osten Death Clue Found | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/811569493/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 23 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal)]: New Clue Hunted in Osten Murder | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/186951441/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 24 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star)]: New Attacks Spur Hunt for Osten Killer | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/186952759/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 25 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star)]: Negro Is Held as Strangler | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/811570018/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 25 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal)]: Prisoner Viewed in Osten Murder | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/186953984/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 26 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star)]: Jailed Suspect Seen Near Girl Murder Scene | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/811570325/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 26 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal)]: Prisoner Linked to Osten Murder | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/182466666/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 27 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star)]: Attack Suspect's Story Unshaken | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/811571095/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 27 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal)]: Innocent, Says Grilled Prisoner | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/179022803/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 31 Dec 1927 (Minneapolis Star)]: note that police are still working on the case. | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/85776189/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 5 Jan 1928 (Brainerd Daily Dispatch]: Howard Wandrei and Wendell Whaley questioned. | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/182437053/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 10 Jan 1928 (Star Tribune)]: Home Town Raising $2,000 to Help Find Pearl Osten's Slayer | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/178672950/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 10 Jan 1928 (Minneapolis Star)]: Reward Is Proposed for Pearl Osten Slayer | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/182443845/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 15 Jan 1928 (Star Tribune)]: Pelican Repids $2,000 Reward Believed Key to Solution of Pearl Osten's Murder | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/182469108/ 27 Jan 1928 (Star Tribune)]: Governor's Office Gets Petition for Osten Reward | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/811645869/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 15 Feb 1928 (Minneapolis Journal)]: Reward Offered for Pearl Osten Slayer | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/221771155/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 15 Mar 1928 (St. Cloud Times)]: Suspect Arrested for Music Student Murder | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/811564074/?match=1&terms=%22Pearl%20Osten%22 3 Jul 1928 (Minneapolis Journal)]: Farm Loss Widespread | |||
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/178663853/?match=1&terms=brutal%20murder%20Minneapolis 2 Nov 1928 (Minneapolis Star)]: Pearl Osten Murder Clue is Uncovered | |||
===Vital Records=== | ===Vital Records=== | ||
Revision as of 15:14, 21 August 2024
Overview
In 1927 a student of music and a member of the Mendelsohn Chorus was brutally killed just feet from her sisters home where she was staying. A small down girl, she had only returned two Minneapolis two weeks prior - having spent the previous year in college before going home in Pelican Rapids for part of the summer. She wasn't found until later in the afternoon when neighborhood boys were playign hide-and-seek, and one dodged into a shed to hid, but instead stumbled over the body of Pearl Osten.
Locations
- 1413 5th St N, Minneapolis - home of Mrs. H. Salchert, right next to the shed.
- 1415 5th St N, Minneapolis - home of Johnny Kerner, who found the body
- 1418 6th St N, Minneapolis - home of Mrs. A. W. Kampf, passenger on street car, among last to see Pearl alive; also of Charles Dorinski
- 1422 6th St N, Minneapolis - home of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Lanseth
- 1835 Harvester St, St. Paul, Minnesota - residence Robert F. Roffler, street car conductor
- 2623 Newton Ave N, home of Mrs. John Munson and residence of Pearl from Feb to Jul 1927
- 3321 43rd Ave S, residence of friend Nora Aas, where sister assumed Pearl had spent the night.
- Bostrom Mortuary, 3008 27th Ave S.
- Jolly Peasant Tearoom, 218 8th St S.
- Norwegian Grove, a township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota
Gallery
People
| Type | Name | (Born-Died) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victim | Osten, Pearl | 1907-1922 | murdered |
| Suspects | "man in small coupe" | accosted Pearl Friday night | |
| "negro and white man" | unidentified, released | ||
| young man on street car | a young man, well dressed, accompanied her from streetcar | ||
| Witnesses | Aas, Nora | friend of Pearl's | |
| Anderson, Mrs. Effie | passenger on street car | ||
| Bergesen, Rev. B. E. | pastor of Zion Luthern Church, their church in Minneapolis | ||
| Christianson, Adolph | harvest worker and lodger in Wisconsin | ||
| Dorinski, Charles | saw a man loitering about the Langseth house | ||
| Hayes, Mark | passenger on the streetcar | ||
| Huisinger, M. L. | identified black man as loitering near shed | ||
| Kempff, Mrs. A. W. | passenger on street car | ||
| Kerner, Johnny | c1915-? | found the body | |
| Logowski, Joe | passenger on street car, paid not particular attention | ||
| Munson, Mrs. John | previous landlord to Pearl | ||
| Nelson, Dr. Frank | President of Minnesota College | ||
| Nelson, Mrs. Helma | landlord to Charles Dorinski | ||
| Nelson, Melvin | boy playing with Johnny Kerner when Pearl was found | ||
| Nelson, Mrs. | mother of Melvin Nelson, talked to police | ||
| Panning, A. E. | proprietor of the Jolly Peasant Tea Room | ||
| Roffler, Robert F. | street car conductor, witness | ||
| Salchert, Mrs. H. | neighbor, heard nothing | ||
| Sanbeck, Dagny | c1913-? | heard screams | |
| Severs, Carl | passenger on the streetcar | ||
| Officers & Investigators | Bell, Dr. E. T. | performed autopsy with Coroner | |
| Brunskill, Frank W. | Superintendent of Police | ||
| Crummy, Andrew | Capt of the Detectives. | ||
| Forby, William | Detective | ||
| Hanaford, Walter | Detective | ||
| Helwig, Richard | Detective | ||
| Marxon, Al | Detective | ||
| Seashore, Gilbert | Coroner | ||
| Family | Hovland, Theo Mathilde | 1871-1957 | mother of Pearl |
| Lanseth, Alma Osten | 1897-1992 | sister to Pearl | |
| Lanseth, Johan Melvin | 1889-1959 | brother-in-law to Pearl | |
| Osten, Alma {Langseth/Shields) | 1897-1992 | sister to Pearl | |
| Osten, Martin Andreas Simon | 1867-1956 | father of Pearl |
Documentation
Burials
- Find-a-Grave: "Martin Andreas Osten" (1867-1956), West North Immanuel Church Cemetery, Norwegian Grove, Minnesota
- Find-a-Grave: "Pearl Gilma Osten" (1907-1927), West North Immanuel Church Cemetery, Norwegian Grove, Minnesota
Census Records
- 1910 US Federal Census: "Gilma P. Osten", 3, with parents in Norwegian Grove, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
- 1920 US Federal Census: "Gilma Osten", 12, with parents in Norwegian Grover, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
Newspaper Articles
- 3 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal): Honor Pupil, 21, Slain Returning From Night Job
- 3 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star): Girl Death Suspect Hunted; Mystery Veils Strangling of Student
- 3 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Daily Star): Search for College Girls Slayer Shifts to St. Paul
- 3 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune): Children Find Body in Shed; Two Men Held
- 4 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star): New Arrest in Killing of College Girl
- 4 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune): 3 Questioned as Suspects are Cleared.
- 5 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star): New Clue Spurs Girl Killer Hunt - Two Friends of Student are Sought
- 5 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune): Night Prowler Sought on Tip in Girl's Death
- 6 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune): Police Halted in Search for Girl's Slayer
- 6 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star): Funderal Held for Girl Victim of Strangler - Police Pursue all Clues to Slayer Without Results.
- 7 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune): Police Follow Single Clue in Murder Case
- 7 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal): Clues Point to Murder of Slain Girl's Escort
- 8 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune): Girl's Slayer Still Eluding Police Search
- 8 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star): Sleuth Goes to Pelican Rapids in Killer Hunt
- 8 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal): Detective Goes North for Clue in Girl's Murder
- 10 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune): Police Trace New Clue in Girl's Death
- 10 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star): Police Trail Infatuated Youth; Watch Found Stolen
- 11 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune): Osten Girl's Watch Subject of Search
- 11 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal): Girl Murder Inquiry Leads to Moorhead
- 12 Oct 1927 (Star Tribune): Letters Give Hope of Clue in Osten Case
- 12 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star): Police Obtain Slain Girl's Last Letter
- 13 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star): Slayer Hunt is Continued
- 13 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal): Mrs. Kempf called to see photo of body found, not the man seen with Pearl
- 22 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star): New Pearl Osten Death Clue Found
- 23 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal): New Clue Hunted in Osten Murder
- 24 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star): New Attacks Spur Hunt for Osten Killer
- 25 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star): Negro Is Held as Strangler
- 25 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal): Prisoner Viewed in Osten Murder
- 26 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star): Jailed Suspect Seen Near Girl Murder Scene
- 26 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal): Prisoner Linked to Osten Murder
- 27 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Star): Attack Suspect's Story Unshaken
- 27 Oct 1927 (Minneapolis Journal): Innocent, Says Grilled Prisoner
- 31 Dec 1927 (Minneapolis Star): note that police are still working on the case.
- 5 Jan 1928 (Brainerd Daily Dispatch: Howard Wandrei and Wendell Whaley questioned.
- 10 Jan 1928 (Star Tribune): Home Town Raising $2,000 to Help Find Pearl Osten's Slayer
- 10 Jan 1928 (Minneapolis Star): Reward Is Proposed for Pearl Osten Slayer
- 15 Jan 1928 (Star Tribune): Pelican Repids $2,000 Reward Believed Key to Solution of Pearl Osten's Murder
- 27 Jan 1928 (Star Tribune): Governor's Office Gets Petition for Osten Reward
- 15 Feb 1928 (Minneapolis Journal): Reward Offered for Pearl Osten Slayer
- 15 Mar 1928 (St. Cloud Times): Suspect Arrested for Music Student Murder
- 3 Jul 1928 (Minneapolis Journal): Farm Loss Widespread
- 2 Nov 1928 (Minneapolis Star): Pearl Osten Murder Clue is Uncovered
Vital Records
- 1907: Minnesota Birth Index: "Gilma Osten" - 14 Feb 1907, Otter Trial County
- 1907: South Immanuel Lutheran Church Records: "Pearl Gilma Osten", baptised 3 Mar 1907
- 1912: Marriage records for Alma Caroline Osten to Johan Melvin Langseth; and sister Clara Alice Osten to Bernie Sillerud - same page
- 1927: Minnesota Death Index for "Pearl Gilma Osten" - 2 Oct 1927, Hennepin County