This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1662.1.1.1 Message Board Post: "Morris Daily Herald", Morris, IL Tues, Feb 21, 1905 Death came to Theodore Krein at Minooka in a very peculiar and unfortunate manner late yesterday evening. While engaged in moving some cars at Knapp's elevator Mr. Krein was caught between one of the cars and the side of the elevator and his life crushed out. The deceased was about 57 years of age and leaves to mourn his demise a wife and several children. The dead man had been in the employ of the late A. K. Knapp and the Knapp estate for more than 25 years, and was a man held in the highest esteem by al who knew him. Some years ago at the time the bank conducted by Mr. Knapp was burglarized, Mr. Krein was the night watch keeping guard over the bank and he was the man who at the time fell a prisoner to the burglars, being bound and gagged and left lying helpless upon the floor where he was found the next morning after the discovery of the robbery. It seems that at the Knapp elevator there is an arrangement for moving cars from one point to another by means of a cable attached to a gasoline engine. This arrangement is what was being used yesterday when Mr. Krein lost his life. When a car that was being moved some distance to the elevator was in the clear he started to climb up a side ladder to set the brake and before he could reach the top of the car he was caught between the car and elevator and rolled a distance of more than eight feet, his body being crushed almost to a pulp. Dr. Ferguson visited Minooka this morning and held an inquest over the body, the jury returning a verdict sustantially in accord with facts as above outlined. Another report is that the car was given a quick shove by a locomotive that was backing in on the siding on which the unfortunate man was at work, but this report lacks confirmation. Mr. Krein during his residence in Minooka had held various positions of trust reposed in him by the people and he was never known to violate any confidence confided to him. He was a man who stood well among the people who knew him best and his unfortunate death is much lamented throughout the village, where he was known best and the country surrounding Minooka. The deceased was born and raised in Germany, coming to this country when a young man and prior to his removal to Minooka was employed in Lockport and Joliet. "Morris Daily Herald", Fri, March 3, 1905 Minooka items Funeral services for the late Theo. Krein were held in the St. Mary's church of Minooka last Wednesday morning. After the mass, Rev. Father Dunne, of Joliet, preached an excellent sermon dwelling on so many of the good points in Mr. Krein's life. The pall bearers were Messrs. J. P. Clennon, James Meade, Thos. Comerford, John Carlin, John Brannick and Jas. McEvilly. All of Mr. Krein's family were present at the funeral. The remains were taken to St. John's cemetery at Joliet for burial Kutz Krein, and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Henrich, who were here to attend Mr. Krein's funeral returned to their home in Chicago Thursday night. Misses Merkt, of Rubicon, Wisconsin, visited with their aunt, Mrs. Theo. Krein from Thursday until Sunday.