The sun., 1873-07-28
1RAGEDr IN RIrINGToN STREET.
The Murder Of Mrs scbulc By her Husband
Another Crime for wtish Rss, ts Re-
sponsiblc-East side Teuemept I.ife.

Coroner Kessler, assisted by DIR. Dec.
yesterday made post mortem examination Of
the remains Of Mrs. Caroline 5chule, who was
killed by her husband on Sat irday evening In
the yard Of the tenement 30 RivIngtOn street.
The victim is German woman about fifty years
OF are. The husband, Casper Schule, Is also
German about nfty-one years Of age, brick
layer and plastorer. He came to this country
In ls52. Five years ago he revisited his native
land, and on his return to this city brought his
wife and three children, one Of whom they had
adopted in Germany. The son ana daughter
have since married and live in the city. The
adopted child is a lad about thirteen years Of
age. Casper and Caroline Schule had been mar
ried twenty y-1ve years. They were both some
what intemperate, and when under the influence
of liquor often quarreled. The Iuple for some
time past occupied three rooms on the ground
floor of the tenement In the rear Of ~ RivinHtOn
street, entrance To which Is gained through
long, narrow alley, opening ON yard about Ave
feet in width. which separates the front and
rear tenemcnts, occupied chiefly by poor Ger
man families: II was in this yard that the trag-
ON Saturday schule was whitewashlng in STAN
ton street, while his wife was scrubbing y store
In Riylngton street, near her residence. bchule
went to meet his wife In the store about
o'clock. She told him she would he home short
ly. He went home and made his dinner OF
piece OF dry bread and pint Of lager beer. He
went out and returned home at o'clock. Mrs.
Schule reached home soon afterward. Casper
ordered her To get supper ready, ana then went
out again, returning In an hour, but found no
supper. The woman had been drnkin2 aud did
irritated at his wlfe's neglect a quarrel sprang
up between them; Az this time Mrs Schule
was standing In the little yard, close by the
bydrant. Schule was sitting at tho window OF
one Of their apartments. The conversation be-
Schulz repeatedly asked her to come into the
house, but the woman pcrsistently refused. At
: en- by the neiehbsrs to strike his wife in the
breast. The woman fell instantly near the
hydrant, and blood eushed from wound In her
right side. Several neighbOrs hurried to the
scene and found her dying. DIR, Moritz was
summoned. hut before he arrived she was dead.
She was carried into the house and laid on the
bed. A stab wound was found in the right
breast.
In the meantime schule. with his hands and
shirt besmeAred with his wifts blood, ran
through his rooms, and, pulling up the back
window, crcpt through 1t aud over the fence to
the yard Of III stanton street, where lac entered
an clubhouse. lie was by Mrs. Margaret
Skebeck. who keeps the lager beer saloon In
and washed his hands II the blood which was
upon them. Mrs. Skebeck exclaimed 4" GU
have been beating your wife. Casper" The
murderer hearing this ran through the nger
beer saloon into Stanton street, down stanton
street 30 Chrystie, thence to Delaney To 10 for-
syth street, the residence of his daughter.
soon aiterward Patrolmen Brennan and Quiglcy
took SChule to the Eldridgc Street Police sta
tion. He admitted that he had struck. but de
MED that he had stabbed his wife. when told
that she was dead he laughed and said 1t was
impossi6le, as she could not have been hurt
liquor, and did not realize his position. lie was
locked uu In one of the cells over night.
A search was instituted by the police for the
weapon, but nothing was found until yesterday
morning. wuen half inch Rngur was found Ia a
yard IN Forsyth street. IL was bcsmcared with
! blood, and was undoubtedly the instrument Of
! death. II Is supposed that SchuIe threw II away
! in his flight.
A Corunors jury was impaneled yesterday
/ morning. Schuic was Yesterday morning tHken
| before Justice Shandlcy In the Essex Market
Police Court. After a preliminary examination
he was committed to the Tombs.