The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-11-12
THE RHoMBERG MURDER.
4 Dubuque wifs's DisIoyalty Drives Her
Husband to Hrrder-He Shoots her Para
mour Through . Window.


From the Dubuque Times, Oc;. :9.l
Las, evening bloody seqel IA It ended the
Rhomberg. Hsgn,r scAUda: ssequel that
ended the loie O; Frank Wagner. About j
quarter before 6 O'clock The report spread
RAPIDLY over the city ii at Wagner had rhot
Rnomsere, had that Rhomgerg Was dyiug
in his saiuOn at tie noi theesI corner u Coy
and Eighth stress Pfoce. at Olee To
the saiOon, around which a large crowd had
already gathered, our repor,er found ,hA,
the report was terribly true, AID Rhombsrs
Wxs dead.
The murder was the most cool and deiib-
crate character VI any that has camel Tie
psges O! crime in our ae,' and RlOmberg
vas shot down in his o sn salocn at a tme
when he was lest expec ing dsng er. through
Q window.
The entrance TO NJ. khomters's saloon,
which is known the Green irse s.lo1n,
is from Clay street, facing wes'. lie osr Is
located in the southeast coraer oil the room,
abu,tine sgainst window opening On Eighth
street The clock on tue wall pointed 5:45.
and Mr.. Ri omberg and = frierd named
Pernsr ". re standing behind The bar, Ptrner
being n, ar. $: the window. Rho,nbers was
leaning with lis lett elbow on the counter,
resting bis head on his hand, engaged in
earnest generation with coapie Of friends,
Mr.. Henry and Mr.. Welsh. There was a
loud report, q crash Of slass, and a cry OF
pin hom Rhomberg, and h., raising lis
hands, fell sideways 10 the floor. The In
mates Of the saloon, horror struck, croucheG
to the door, not knoxipg but iha; another
shot might be fired Their thoughts colicc.
ted, Perner stepped to the rtlief OF Rhom-
berg, and the otnsr two I'll he'd Oat 10 give
the alarm. and at emrt TO capture ct the
murderer. Wagner was see1 with his gun
in bis hand walking away. HIS SIPS we:e
toward the Jail. he opened the door to the
SheriA's residence and walked in, meeting
Deputy Sheriff s ,l.t in the hall. He said
to Mr. Salet; "HeYe / Sun, take me-" and
be vas locked up in Jail.
The fstalBhor vas tir, Il by Wagner, and
was from one barrel OF 4 double tarreled
fowling-piscs, heavily ioa led with duck
shot. All the pines Of tie window through
which Wagner fired the fatal shit were stain
ed exc. pit one recently tros.n and replaced
BY an implanted g;sss. Through this Veg
ner fred the fatal shot with ceit,n aim, TIE
more certain from the bright ligh, wi hin
and the darkness without, which tnsbl d
him to crouch, unseen. like some dread
beast Of prey, Watching for the moment when
he could most surely fire the deadly shot
Il Is almost miraculous that none OF the
other occupants we're injured by the sca.ter-
ing shot.
In response to our inquiries, in an inter
view At The Jail, Wagner said Le had been
driven 10 the rash deed BY The tsunis Of
Rhouberg's friends. and their ofi-repea ed
declarations that he (Rhombergl would never
b, found guilty Of adultery with his Wag-
ner'.) wife, in the .uit now pending. Rhom-
bers's influential friends and his money
would secure his exemption from conviction,
or il beaten in one conrt the case would te
taken to Others, out Of his Wagner reach.
Only yesterday he claimed these sa'emen's
hsd been made to him, and he determined
to take the Ia =. in his own hands and punish
the man Who ruined his happy home. The
man." said be, who profe sid 10 be my
friend, and al the time vas wIoDsing me
most foully stepping in between ne and a
happy wife and child, DESTROYING my peace
and sending me into the world homeless ard
disLono ed! 1t all preyed on me, sir, until
/. had to come. / could and it no longer
Day BY day it gnawed into my hesrt, until
I vas given no rest. Thought Of what my
hone once wae, oil my pure, innocent wife.
Of my child, now sca"erd aid gone.
could t,nd it no lorg-r, cir, and l hunted
him down ~ would hunt vol. and XII led |
him, and I'm glad Of il, cir"
He said be had not contempt .ted the act |
nose than 6iieen minutes before the decd
~ doae. The Impulse etized him,
a,d he eteppd into v. D1tIls.
hlksy, Q brothef-in-lAw Of Rhsnberg,
ssd bsrroved . gun, - he had
eites done before, and loaded il in the ba- |
key, vith The iniection Of shooting RhoD- |
berR. He proceeded NJ once 70 Rhomberss
nleoo, sav sone nea in there, and thou .bt |
I'D Gais unIil they were gone. SEEING the |
haseA face through the window, and . cha.ce |
% shoos. be took aim and fred. Wseuer |
5000 ouiSs cool and collected and per-
iscSly ucsaesved. rscfesiog TO Iesl that he |
- doas night and wiling TO abide the |
Of his ct. He had been
6sinkise sooe, bat We not IN an in,oxica- |
I'd ccadisiea.
Vhile on reporter v.s ~ in the prison |
T. 0hssiG infseDed WagDef that I'm noih-
wand siass we sill in the receptions room |
~ Wild to know II be would see them. |
OkH1D1yS AWu0s " - W., oeOPIevs
Asd thsy. vsss eoadncasd into he cell. The
poor noih@, oyiag 40, ny son, ny eos,
~ have ~ dos - ELL % his shoulder. |
Ihssssasels - hsastresdinG, asd tears /
6lies a. 1910 vopisg. Tbs Dothef
knslt q - 80 q tbs psisoaes's COT, and
Desys1 - ~ earnestly iof hin.
O a. l6ek u Oespbg hi, . suit sss |
hssaahs aoaisG 0Aa1bssy b WsgssS, - |
! ehSsns a adsleay With bis (Wsosa's)
~ n tvo faniIes were nsiekboTs. and /