, 1877-01-07
'sTHAT BLESSED BABY"
1t Was the Cause of a Row Be-
tween Dr.. Sterl and Fritz
Parteii,
In Which the Latter Received
Two Shots from Lit
tie Pistol.
Parteu Accuses the Doctor Of Seducing
His Wife and Being the Father
of Her Child.

His Wife and Being the Father
Of Her Child.
Sterl's Friends Claim that It Is
a Blackmai1 Job.
4 hurried and angry conversation between
DR.. Alexander Sterl and man named Fritz
Partell at Charles S. Tirren's drugstore, corner
OF Nineteenth street and Centre avenue, during
the noon-hour yesterday; sharp scuftle, tn
which Partcll, the larger man, had the better OF
his antagonist; recourse to small-sized
Smith l. Wesson on the part OF the Doctor
three shots in rapid succession; the flight OF the
phyeican; all these are the circumstances at
tending the shooting OF Fritz Partell, an ienor-
ant, uncouth German, by DR.. 6terl, German
physician OF some little prominence In the lower
part OF the West Division. The wounded man
was taken to bis home, corner OF Nineteenth
and Wood streets, where DR.. Buckley examined
his hurts and found them serious, but not
necessarily fatal.
There was only one witness to the shooting
Young man named G. G. Shaucr, \ clerk in
The aforesaid drugstore According to Shauer,
Parttil came in and saw the-Doctor, who hap
Pcncl to be in the store, where he has an Office
fartell rather excited1r asked DR.. Sterl whether
lie intended to take that baby. He repeated
the inquiry two or three times, and something
in the nature OF the question seemed to anger
the Doctor. 4 scuf1le ensued- Shauer vent out
to look for an officer, but found none, and came
In just in time to hear the shots fired, see the
wounded man fall, and the Doctor rush out.
jump into cutter, and drive of with gem
tlemAn, whose name he does not know, and
to some destination OF which he il equally ig-
noraut-
The above facts we're Immediately reported to
onf s7f fhA INN hS1.E YaafE
who promptly communicated with the officers
at the other stations, and men were sent to the
various railroad depots to apprahend the Doc
tor. At last accounts, however, be had not
escape. although his friends believe be will give
himself up.
With view Of getting at the particulars Of
the trouble, and solving the mystery in the
queer remark about
sTHAr BABr,"
TRmCNE reporter visited the house Of the.
wounded man yesterday afternoon, about
o'clock. Partel1 was sitting in rocking-chair,
room In the second story Of the house. The
heat tn the room was nearly intolerable, and the
situation was made even more comfortable by
an all-pervading odor as OF Tash-boilers in
Gus stages Of renovation. And yet, notwith-
standing the sfckening atmosphere, the wound
ed man was surrounded by hot dirty pillows
and greasy blankets, with wound under his
lelL car A0Q one IN Q19 flSuI 6QOuueTt III GacQ OIL
which was bullet which the Doctors efforts
had not been able to dis1odge. Partell's wife,
a frowsy-looling, middle-aged female in whose
appearance the signs Of plnchlng poverty were
cries Of two little ones, her attention was the
more urgently demanded BY one or the other.
A dirty looking baby slept In dirty-looking
cradle, wrapped in equally dirty ylooking clothes,
In another equally dirtylooking I room: a young
to her eyes and cheeks, who appeared to be the |
friend Of the family, helped the mother to care |
for one OF the little ones,-a bright, chubby
faced little girl, also red as to her eyes.
1t Was well for the reporter and the public |
who care to know tue details, that an interpre |
ter accompanied the news-seeker on this oc-
casio... Otherwise but little would have been
known. Partell can scarcely speak sentence |
in English inteligiblr, aud even his German |
must have been OF peculiar kind, since the in |
terpreter was more than once puzzled as to its |
meaning. It would simply be waste Of space |
to give the conversation Us it occurred. There I
were frequent Interruptions from the wife,
the same thing occurred when the |
wife tried to state in very |
rapid, excited way, what she knew
cb =. tb gnc not to ooz
srkeniug details Of the story, it is simply given
in substance and for what It is worth, for DR..
Sterl is not here to deny Or explain away its !
damaging assertions.
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tappears, therefore, Hom WAL ootn nusoanu
and wife sa1d, tnat MEs. fartell worked or 1or u
ster laEt sptng' .aaag care o. s ms one F,;nars rs
familiarity often ofeeos several oLnef 1eennEs
than contempt seems, a9Gosoing M l1+ 10 snen
stoTf, 70 nave insPiseo u Lne EentIeani ..1a.
looking, weli-appear1ng olscaple OF Escutapius
certain en- oesIes ~ Gonnecs,on @ nita 1n1 PEI
E9n o. ,,d Luz a1cs, ~ t,.. ~ Machet ,pa,,d
WIN "no even .ne ~ ~1o has+s ~ as ,rore moo1a o'
oeaI a"ay ene p5s 1ns ~ cond, vu,
- H. atma.s ea.a ~ ,aoes nMaet;o1ah1a Thcrs
peealne noae ~ and ~ -, vi a,d NJ parte11
ea,n1 hass unS eh savs and nncr
eomnn1son on the nart Of the amatory metit-
~ The +hnneht II The resn1t of this 3nf1is.
-est{o, wtcn Il heesrne annarent what that
resrlt would soon be. SO angerad the Doctor
r1,af he nrx,Dosei tn Mrs Parfe1l tn stjt1e new
er;stenre in me Of the numerous wave known
to tie medicaj fraternity, But. as Mra. Parten
would not listen to anv such proposals, The
author Of all this trouble. she snys. sent lur the
necessary funds, to the extent Of SIS. where
With to compensate female, Of useful occu-
nation for bringine the Doctor,s offsnriner into
lie world, In due time the unwelcome Visitor |
appearcd,-not quite two months since, What is !