Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-20
A Triple Tragedy,

New York city is OVERLOOKING will
tragedies just now. The last case is re
ported as follows Caroline Margraf
German girl eighteen years of age, il
January formed the acquaintance O
Carlo j. Maggiori, an italian painter
Hepaid his addresses to her, and, itseems
represented that he was worth some
$4,000. Miss Margraf after marrying
Maggiori about the middle of January
left him in disgust, month ago, and
refused to be reconciled to him. This
was owing to the fact soon discovered
after her marriage, that he was not only
poor but a confirmed drunkard, and
| wife-beater. During the brief term OF
her welded life she was compelled to
support both her husband and herself
by needlework. On leaving Maqgiori O
month ago, she went back to her
mothers house, and remained there.
Maggiori sent note to her mothers
house, asking the girl to meet him at
the rooms they had occupied, when they
would arrange matters so that a divorce
could be procured by mutual agreement.
The girl went, taking her brother Louis
Margraf, who is twenty-one years old,
that he might protect her from insult
and be a witness to any proposition
which Maggiori would make. Before
leaving the house the brother took a
small Smith & Wesson revolver from the
mantei-piece and put it in his pocket.
She had an audience with Maggiori in
her brothers presence in the rooms.
The conference was not pleasant one,
and harsh language was used by both
parties. At length Maggiori saw that
the results to be attained were not what
he desired, and said to his wife "Let
lis go down stairs, Caroline, into the
cool air, and we can fix this affair" She
left the room with him, and the brother,
fearing foul play, crept down the stairs
after them, He stopped in the door
way, and Maggiori, putting his right
arm around the girls neck, with his
left hand drew from a side-pocket a
Lefacheux self-cocking revolver, and
fired at her. The ball entered her left
breast in an oblique direction, passing
toward the centre of the sternum. She
fell in the hallway, saying, "Dear God,
| am murdered" The brother sprang
from the stairway, through the hall, and
was in the act of seizing Maggiori, when
the latter turned and fred upon him
twice. One ball smashed the fingers of
his left hand, but the other passed
through his left jaw, fracturing the molar
bone and lodging in his head. The
brother staggered for a moment, and
Maggiori, seeing that he had wounded
him, turned and ran up Houston street.
Margraf in an instant recovered his
nerve, and chased him, drawing his
own revolver, and firing at the flying
assassin as he ran. The chase continu.
ed but few seconds, the firing going
on all the while. Maggiori, finding
that he was being rapidly overtaken and
likely to be shot down, turned quickly
around the corner of Union Market and
dashed up the steps leading into the
Eleventh Precinct Station house.
Young Margraf was close upon him,
and as Maggiori ran up the stairway,
fired on him twice. The last shot en-
tered Maggiori's right loin, just at the
line of the kidneys. BY this time the
noise of the firing had awakeneda Police
Sargent, who was on duty in the Station
house, and some officers were sent out
to convey the wounded persons to the
Station-house. The wounds of Mag.
giori, his wife and her brother were not
probed, it being deemed judicious to
deferall inquiry by means ofinstruments
until the patients had reached the hos
pital. Enough was learned, however,
to enable the statement to be made
that Maggiori and his wife are in all
probability fatally wounded, while the
brother of the unfortunate girl is shot
dangerously, but not in necessarily
fatal manner