The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-08-12
A MuRDERER,s WIFE.


A MURDERER'S WIFE.
THE KRINe- BRoEMsER AFFAIR OF ST. LOUIS
EMBARRASSING POSITION OF MRS. KRING-
AN INTERVIEW WITH HER.
The Globe Democrat furnishes the follow
ing: The story of the murder of Mrs. Dora
Broenlser by Charles L. Kring, committed
in this city last December, is one of the
most interesting in the criminal annals OF
st. louis, and rot a little maudlin
sympathy has been aroused in
behalf Of the young. man who,
I'm a moment of maddened guilty ieal-
ousy, and frenzied suspicion, shot down in
her tracks q woman with whom he had as
ISOLATED, and whom he felt he loved better
than life IL the story Of the murderer is to
be believed, the passion be felt for Mrs.
Broemsor was reciprocated by her, and
grew into a criminal intimacy, under the
eye OF her husband, who knowingly al
lowed il to continue, IN order to rob the in
fstuatsd young man, who was bis partner,
carrying on a drug business near Belleville,
Illinois. Bat when the business mad gone
to pieces, and KrIng had been stripped
of the money which he alone had put into
the firm, the victim came to ask final
decision of the woman, whether she would 20
with him or stay with her husband. When
the final answer "go" came, q revolver was
drawn and the woman was shot through
the head. at is all like dream" SAID
Kring, some time since to a Globe-D Demo
crat reporter, in a voice like that OF Jeffer-
son in the pathetic last act OF Rip Van
Wrinkle. "If did not know dot vas here,
and dot these wallis we're a reahty and not
vision, would tink il was all a tream, a
horrid, horrid tream." The wife or Kring
is living with her parents at Breese, ILL.,, on
the Ohio & Mississippi railroad, awaiting
the result of the trial, which will come of
af tha nf
Court. An interest attaches to almost every
thing connected with
THE MURDERER,
who was educated in a German university,
and had borne high character up to the
time of the commission of the deed and
passing through Breese yesterday, the writer
made call on the family, where he was in
troduced by a physician. Mrs. Kring is not
vet twenty four, and her petite figure, her
line face, calm but melancholy blue eyes,
and the fiaxen hair at once excite interest
and attention. In lines around the mouth
aud eyes, and especially in the saddened ex
preston of the latter, may be easily seen the
traces left by the terrible events which
have passed over her fair head 10 the last
year. The eyes frightened somewhat
as she showed the writer ner boy-now
almost three years of sge-who was romp-
ing on the floor. THAT is my only comfort
now" she said, "the child and prayer To
God Ii did not have my boy with me I
should feel that was with Sod, alone. He
is so like his iatheI-the same good heart
and the same deep, and " hat you call in
English, unfathomed passions. He will sit
down, sometimes, and stare at something
before him until ne forgets where he is,
lust the same what his father have done
many time" In the course of the further
conversation, she alluded to the murder.
The responsibility OF the crime she lays
at the door OF Mr.. Jacob BrOemser, tho
knew his victims passion and the
excitable nature OF his mind, and used him
for his own devilish purposes. She said that
her husband was induced to take upon his
own shoulders the responsibility for crimes
which Broemser had committed, aud when
his moral and financial ruin was ACCENT
plished, and everything had come to naught,
his reason gave way, prey ID his uuholy
passions. She expressed the opinion that
when, at the last fatal meeting bet cen her
husband aud Mrs. Broemser. the latter re-
fused his proposals, he imagined that she
was engaged in the conspiracy with her hus-
band to rob him, and, therefore committed
THE HORRIBLE DEED
Tor which he is to be tried. She did not
think that her husband would have married
Mrs. Broemser when he came to his senses
In regard TO her married lite she says that
and she was very happy until they crossed
the path of the Broemser family, sincs which
time she had never had a happy hour. Kring
was very kind TO his family, and only quar-
relied when he saw his wife doing the house
work. II there was anything she had to
complain OF, il was the restless character
of her husband, which made him change
his place of business four times with five
years of their marriage. Mrs. BrOemser
was described by the injured wife as a CO.
Quette. who was as refined aud highly edu-
Gated as she was beautiful-speaking tour
languaCes-and who was unhappy in her
ma ried life, being Joined TO man her in
ferior in every respect. She always thought
Mrs. Broemser pure woman until Broem-
ser showed her a letter from kriDg, which
told her all, whereupOn she leiG per husband
and went to her fathers house. The con-
duct OF Broemser on the occasion was en-
tirely unconcerned, and to her mind il
seemed he was trading upon bis wiie's
virtue. Mrs. Broemser liked to be battered
by gentlemen, but always kept them at bay,
and, in the opinion OF the deserted wife,
loved X ring passionately until she breatheu
her last. From the first she anticipated
trouble, but she never thought it would emo
in the way it did Her impression was that
Broeinser would challenge her husband to "A
duel, as Kring had informed him OF his
criminal relations with Mrs. Broemser in an
elaborate statement, and after King left for
st. Louis Iumors reached her OF a duel be-
tween the two. Mrs. Kring said she would
not visit her husband until the trial, as she
would rather die than see him In prison.
house with the writer, .that is true, good
hearted women, ii one ever lived"
REAL, FATE OFsTHE FIORINDA