Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-20
TRAGIC AFFAIR IN NEW YORK.
Three Children Supposed to Have Been
Suff0cated by their Mother.
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IRON tue Sunday HeraId.I

iIiUu Tue DuAudJ IleEdlul
intense excitement last evening created in the
vicinity OF Forty-seventh street and Broadway, by
the rumor that woman had murdered her three
children and then attempted to kill herself In this
instance the rumor appears to have been but too true
AT later hour reporter visited the scene, ard
learned the following facts:
At seven o'clock last evening, John Roth, aGerman
instrument maker, returned to his home One-StOry
tenement, in Forty-SeVenth street, between Broad
way and Eighth avenue, and found woman named
Anastlna SchotZ, with whom he has been living for
some years past in state of stup0r, at the foot of
bed IN an inner room. On the bed lay her three chill
dren.Caroline, aged SIX years; John, aged two and
a-half years, and William, aged fifteen months-ap
parently quite dead he attempted to arouse the
woman, but without success. and then ran into the
street and gave the alarm.
Information of the affair conveyed TO the TWEEN
ty-second precinct station house, and some officers
we're at despatched to the scene. Drs. J. Lewis
smith and Robert Stewart were called in and didall
In their power to resuScaet the children but without
avail and they then turned their attention to the
woman. After lengthy trial ofvarious restorativeS
sne began slowly to revive and at late hour hopes
were entertained OF her recovery.
The children. when found. were lying upon the bed
IN the order Of their ages, the girl first and were
and laid out as though for burial. The appearance
would indicate that the act must have been perform
Ell with great deal Of deiberaon the part of the
woman.
An examination by the physicians shows no traces
OF poison, and no marks of violence are visible on
them. Death must have been caused in some man
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woman Is still too weak to answer any questions put
to her. The boy. johnny, was seen upon the street
by the neighbOrS at as late an hour five o'clock.
The woman, we have stated, when found by Roth
was quite stupid, but after seized with con-
vulsionS. An application of the stomach pump re-
veaed no trace of poison; in fact, nothing was found
upon her stomach, and in the opinion of the physi
clans her condition when found, and subsequently,
may have been tho result of excitement caused by
the commission of the terrible act She is rather
good looking German woman, about the medium
height and twenty-six years of age A slight abra-
sion is noticeable upon her left cheek. but how OBJ
tanned did not appear.
The woman, according to the statement of Roth,
has been living with him III the capacity of wife for
some years past, although they not married
and the two younger children the fruit of such
cohabtation. The girl Caroline was born while she
was living with her husband-Schotz. The latter is
married TO another woman, and is living with her in
another part Of the CITY, Roth states that for over
year the woman has been very eXtravagant and
this has led to frequent angry discussions between
them few days since he gave her twenty dollar
bill, and she afterwards informed him that she had
lostit. This he ascertained to be untruth, and
taxed her with the fact. An angry debate followed
and from that time until the commission of the muir
der she has seemed low spirited. There can be no
doubt that, while labOring under temporary insanity
or depression of spirits, she committed the act.
The coroner has been notified to hold an inauest
to-day, when the affair will be fully investigated
The affair has caused the most intense excitement
in the neishboTho0d large crowd being collected in
the vicinity as soon as the fact became known.