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Daisy Shuey-Anderson
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Daisy Shuey-Anderson's great-granddaughter related some information to us about Daisy's murder:
"My Grandmother is Alice Anderson, the oldest daughter that is referred to
in the
articles. Alma Sweeney and Alice were about the same age. Anyway, my
grandmother was there in the house when it happened and had to she her
mother and Mr. Fred Sweeney dead. Her brother and sisters were also there.
They did not see the shooting, only the aftermath. Spencer, my Great Uncle,
had to testify at the Coroner's Jury the next day. He was only 8 if I
remember correctly. I was surprised when I read the Inquest account that he
had to testify. I think that's pretty young to have to do that.
I had not known about the shooting when I was growing up. My Father and his
sisters and brothers never talked about it. When I found out, I asked my
Father about it. He said he didn't know much about it. He said, however,
that his Aunts used to take out the newspaper on occasion and discuss it
with great emotion. Alice, my Grandmother, and her siblings went back to
Wisconsin to live with their Father. There she met my Grandfather and they
were married a short time later. Daisy died in May of 1923 and my father
was born in May of 1924...
...I went to the library to look up the shooting and was surprised to see
the newspaper coverage. We have numerous shootings in Rockford in modern
times so they do not make the front page. In 1923, Rockford had two
editions a day and this story was in the headlines for both editions as well
as followup articles the next day. After I read the accounts, I cannot help
but feel for my Grandmother and her siblings. She suffered from depression
during part of her life and I can only imagine what she felt and thought
about those horrible sights. She died when I was three years old so I do
not remember her...
...It is the strangest thing. No one talked about this murder and it became
something that it wasn't and took on a life of its own. One cousin thought
that Daisy's boarding house was a brothel and that she was shot by an angry
client. I don't know how that got started but is was not true. She took in
the occasional boarder, but she did not expose her children to a brothel.
Anyway, it does seem strange that she was not living with Albertus. I guess
we can conclude all kinds of things from that but we will never know the
truth about it."
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