“Generally fair and warmer tonight and Sunday, fresh winds, becoming southerly.” That was the forecast for the evening of April 14th, 1900 when Kate and her sister Johanna sat down for dinner. The day before Easter Sunday.
At about 7 o’clock that evening Henry Wendt, a farmer, was standing at the well on his property when he saw a women crawling slowly up the road toward his house. He recognized that it was his neighbor Miss Kate Sullivan. As she approached, Wendt was shocked to find her covered in blood from head to foot and gagged with a strip of red tablecloth. Wendt took Kate into his home and tried to untie the gag but found it so tight that his wife had to cut it off with pair of scissors. Her hair was hanging down and clotted with blood. She had multiple wounds on her head and blood was flowing from them all. A doctor was called to the Wendt farm but by 6am Sunday morning Kate was dead.
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