Policeman Isaac Lewis entered the Jackson police station on an otherwise ordinary Tuesday and walked directly into the office of Captain Holzapfel.
Moments later, the captain had been shot through the heart, and the police chief narrowly escaped a second bullet.
The reason Lewis gave for killing his superior was as brief as it was unsettling: he was tired of watching Holzapfel “strutting around.”
Slays Superior
JACKSON, Michigan. — Policeman Isaac Lewis walked into the office of Police Captain Holzapfel in the station Tuesday and shot him through the heart, killing his superior almost instantly.
He then fired a shot at Chief Berile, but missed him.
Lewis, it is thought, must have become insane.
Lewis said he was tired of seeing Holzapfel strutting around.
Source: Bryan Morning Eagle. Bryan, Tex. February 7, 1907.
