The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-06
CRIMEIN NEW YORK CITY.
A Brooklyu School Teacher Kills His
Farsmapr and shoots Himself

From the New York Times of Monday
A terrible tragedy occurred last even
ing in a house of assignation in the
Fourteenth Ward, where a man killed
his paramour and himself, both the man
and the weman expiring soon after their
admission to Bellevue Hospital.
1t appears that q we'll dressed man
was, during the past five months, in the
frequent habit of visiting the house
No. 60 Elizabeth street. near Hester
street, kept by Mrs. Pauline Beck. He
usually came on Saturday and engaged
apartments for the following day. These
visits usually occurred at intervals of
from three to five weeks. On Sunday
the man always came first, and opened
the door for an unknown woman, who
was always neatly dressed and closely
yelled. The proprieUress Of the house
bad 30 knowledge Of either of the par
ties, and was led to suppose that they
came from Westchester county. Sue
knew the man to DO German, for lie
always spoke to her in that language.
A short time since a female acquaiat-
ance informed her that the male visitor
was teacher in one of the public schools
in Williamsburg, and q married man.
Like all the rest Of her infamous trade,
Mrs. Beck gave herself no trouble about
the identity of her visitors, content in
the receipt of their custom.
A few weeks ago the man called at the
houss quite unexpectedly, and was
given O rear room on the third floor.
On New Years afternoon he again
called and insisted upon seeing this
rear room. Yesterday evening, about
five o'clock, he entered the house, and
was soon after joined by his female
friend. For an hour and half the house
remained in quiet, which was at length
broken by the detonatiOn of q pistol, the
report reaching the ears Of the domes-
tic, who at ONCE notified her mistress of
the alarming fact. As there were no
other visitors in the house ut the time,
Mrs. Beck ran up stairs to the room
and, finding it bolted, she demanded ad.
mission. Scarcely had she done 50 when
o pistol was discharged n second time,
which affrighted her, and she ran down
into the street and called in officer
Minnie, of the fourteenth preciuc', who
happened to be patro!ling his post in
Elizabeth street at the time.
The policeman at OGco entered the
house, and i'll loud tone demanded an
entrance to the room, repeating the
summons u second tire, preparatory to
forcing the door open. The door was
opened in q slow aud uncertain way by
the woman, as she sat in q chair near
by, and as the officer entered she ex
claimed, "For Gods sake help me out
of this, or I'll dep
She was bleeding profusely from q
bullet wound in the left temple, and her
dark dress was dabbled in warm blood.
Alongside Of the bed, and stretched out
on the floor, was the man, who was also
bleeding from similar wOand on tSe
right temple, about half an inch over
the eye. In his right hand was tightly
clenched small sized Smith Il Wesson
revolver, perfectly new, four barrels Of
which had been discharged. He was
entirely insensible when examined. As
soon as possible the officer procured q
hack, and with the assistance Of brother
officers removed them to the station
house in SpIi1g street.
Captain Edward Walsh, commanding
the precinct, then hurriedly examined
the persons of both the man and the
woman, and, finding them to be fatally
Samuel w. Christie and Officer Minnie
to convey them to Bellevue Hospital.
The transfer was accomplished as rapid
ly as possible, but the woman expired o
few minutes after admission to the in
stitution. The hOS~" surgeon examined
the man and PRONOUNCED his death inev-
liable. He died about 9 o'clock. The
sergeant found love letter on the per-
son of the female, from witch it appear
ed her name was Annie Mcnamara, aud
that her lover was one George Bsuman
Miss McNamara was young woman,
evidently possessing considerable per-
sonal attraction, and was judged to be
snative of the United States, and about
"a years of age. Bauman, the murderer
and suicide, was, as has already been
stated, native of Germany, IS years of
age.
The police of the fourteenth ward
ascertained that both were engaged as
school teachers in the public schools III
Brooklyn.
The nature and circumstances that
led to this donble tragedy are, of course,
matters of mere conjecture. The most
plausible idea is that jealousy had a
pHAC III tbN CAOLiOuo "u!Ou dOtudlSu
Bauman in numbering his paramour
and then committing suicide.
The writer visited the scene of the
tragedy soon after tho fact became
known to the police. The house is
neat brick one, and stands in a dark
portion of the street, surrounded by di.
fapidated dwellings of wood and brick,
and appeared singular rendezvous for
persons pretending to respectability.
The room is small, and costly furnished,
and the floor is covered with an oil
cloth of ancient pattern. A small stove
warmed the apartment. All traces of
the bloody event had been already re-
moved, the oil cloth being quite damp
in two places. Mrs. Beck could give no
further information than that she had
afforded tho police, and treated the mat
ter in very light and heartless man
ner, though she expressed herself as
for the dead woman and her |