New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-31
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
, WEST SIDE TENEMENT TRAGEDY.

WEST SIDE TENEMENT TRAGEDY
SHOOTING or WOMAN AND A CHILD IN WEST
PIPrY-1HIBD-sT.-THE MURDERER AFTERWARDS
Puts A BULLET IN Ills BRAIN-TIIE CHILD DEAD
AND THE MOTHER AND FATHER FATALLY
WOUNDED CAUSES OF THE DEED UNEx-
PIAINED--TIE FAST LIFE or TIiE FAMILY.
Francis Ehringcr of No. $40 West Fifty
thirdst about GAO O'Clock yesterday morning. called
the attention of Officer Brady OF the Twenty-second
Precinct 10 the fact that suspicious noises and glosns
were proceeding the front the second moor
of the house. The officer Immediately went to the rooh
and found door locked Julia Ebrnger girl ABOUT
ii years old, volunteered TO through the window ana
sec what the matter. She Was lifted up ana
aided to get through the window and stopped across tho
bed on which lying q man, a woman, ana
child As touched the man lbs uttered groan She
passed through tho room TO another room WIN ooor
leading nall which she opened, and the oicer en-
tered. He found that the man and woman were
wounded. and were in an unconscious condition. Ihey
were lying the bed and the child lay next 10 tne
mother dead The man WAS known Monroe =
Minister, sometimes called Meyer Minister He was the
aitor and messenger Of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children The child named Caroline,
and was apparently between and years Old.
Upon examination Minister was found to have buiet
wound on the right side OF the head, tho bullet having
penetrated the brain. The woman had similar wOund
o.. the right side OF head and near her lett eye
The child was killed by a bullet when passed through
the right eye aud into tho BRAIN In the bc between
Minister and the woman, was found Smith "esSoh II
yolyer having seven chambers, five OF which were us
charged 1t was lying within few inches OF Minister'S
right hand as if 1t had dropped from his hand after he
had fred the last The Chids face and also the bed
clothing were covered with blood. and the whole scene
was sickening the beholder Minister and the woman
were taken to the Nnety-nnth Street Hospital ana the
surgeon who attended them declared tho wounds 10 DC
fatal
Minister has been the anitor and messenger OF the 80
cie,v OF the Prevention Cruelty to Children about e
months. Before that time he was conductor on inc
Broadway and seventh Avenue Railroad lie comes
from respectable Hebrew family, and his father, VINO
yes at No $40 West Twenty -eiSth-st, IA SAID To De
wealthy. brother of Minister stated yesterday that LOT
some time past be had been subject to hts Of despohd'
ency consequent the death of his son, boy Oh ne
tween three and four years old VINO died IN July 1874
from dphthera. This boy was his fathers pet anu MS
death was very severe blow TO Minister. who grleved
greatly over it, This brother says that Minister was
strictly emperao man. and not i'll the slightest degree
addicted To the IS. liquor. He fears that his parents
who are old are Frustrated by the and fears
that IL will Fiil his mother. lie said that Mrs.
was OF very quick temper ana causoi her nus
band great anxiety and trouble
Mrs Droierick, sister Of Mrs Minister, said that the
husband on Wednesday evening declared that no was
going mp housekeeping and 1t Is supposed that
his intention was to leave his wife. Mrs Br0derlck also
said tra her had been in America about thrtcenor
years. that fors eycra years before her mar
ri,re with Muster she had been doing badly" This is
corroborated by the Investigations OF the police
No evidence Of her marriage could be found
ard il was generally believed that she had not
been married to Minister, but was living with HIM uniaw
fully.
Mira Flynn who lives in the back room on the same
1oor states that her husband heard noises OF very ss
pcioua character between and O'Clock in the morn
ing and he gave the alarm 70 Francis Ehrn5er VINO
lived on tho door below.
A worry singular circumstance Is that althongh I'VE
shots were fred in the house heard the report OF
the revolver The whole affair appears to be enveoped
in the greatest mystery. Minister'S parents have been at
the house Of their but generally 1t appears that nc
had few visitors there.
Coroner Croker received notice OF the Tragedy ana or
dered that the body Of the child he removed to the
Morcue DIR. MacWhnnie pronounced the wounds OF
Minister and his wife fatal and the inquest was de
layed until further evidence could be obtained 1t was
however apparent that Minister had shot bis wife aud
child and then himself Roundsman Helme OF the
Precinct advanced the theory that the
child was accidentally shot, as the woman had wound
across the check directed toward the place where the
child lay Four wounds were accounted for but the re-
| yolyer had five chambers discharged.
The house in which the tragedy took place Is brick
tenement ,stories in hight in the rear OF No 346
West Fifty-thrd-st The rooms in which tho Minister
family lived were very filthy and very poorly FUR
pshed when Officer Brady entered IRE was burning
in the cookntove in the front room and fresh coal had
been put on it within short time. The clothing worn
nv tbc family during the previous day lying ON the
aoor but there was not the slightest indication in the
room that any struggle had taken place there during the
night.
Minister died in the Ninetyninh Street Hospital at half
past three o'clock yesterday afternoon AT late houf
last night Mrs Minister still remained In the cOhatose
! condition in which she was found in the morning.
| NFUy OPK And BROOKLYN ARNORIES.