The daily gazette., 1877-07-17
/ sHORRID. REVENGE.
Il HUSBANDS" oFT-REpEATED
o wR0NGs--HE KILLS HIS wTE's
a PARAMOUR WITH A AATCHFT.

~ PARAMOUR WITH A AATCHKT.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Juiys.
lgdJohn Kramer, cigarmaker, living
in the second story Of the tenement
house at thesouthwest corner of Green
and Pleasant streets, after long suffeI-
ing what few men would bear for a
day vindicated his marital = honor last
Dightby what promises to be one OF
the bloodiest murders known in the
annals of our city. The victim of his
vengeance was young man of twenty
six, named William Schmidt, who was
a 'harnessmaker by trade, and worked
for DeCamp " Levoy, on Main street
near Second. kram er was married to
his wife, Kate Houck, about eleven
years ago, aud has ever since borne
the reputation of being an honest, hard
working man. The fruits of his union
with his wife are three children, prob
ably four, for there seems to be a
doubt as to the paternity of his wife's
last child, babe five months old to-
day.
CUMULATIVE WRONG.
Though well-meaning, Kramer ap-
pears to be u weak-minded man. aud
this fact was taken advantage of by
Schmidt, who became acquainted
with the Kramers couple of years
ago, and he soon after ingIatiated
himself 80 much into Mrs. Kramer's af
fections. that sh G admitted him to the
same marital rights as her legal hus-
band, Schmidt, who seems TO have
been very mean man, not content
with debnuching his friends wife, af-
terward boasted of his success with
her to her husband, and, as might be
expected this occasioned quarrels be-
tween them. The only wonder is that
1t did not result in murder o year ago.
In one of these quarrels the men elm
ched and in the fall that ensucd Kra-
mer, who is a puny, weak man, had
his right shoulder blade broken.
About six weeks ago Kramer moved
from Clark street to his present resi-
dence, W here his wife has been visited
constantly by Schmidt, in the absence
of her husband at hIs work. During
the pact week he would be at her
rooms in the morning soon after hus-
band would leave for hiss work, and
often remain until he returned home
in the evening. They would send for
a small bucket of beer every hour or
80, and to all intents and purposes
Schmidt may be said to have had his
abode in Kramer's home. When qHes-
toned by the neighbofs about Sch
midt, Mrs. Kramer replied that he
was her cousin but one day a woman
who livesin the third story of the tene
ment caught Schmidt and Mrs. Kra-
mer in t1agrante delicto, and then the
cousin story vanished into thin air.
a BLOODY QUARREL. s.
About two weeks ago Kramer and
Schmidt had another of their periodi-
cal quarrels during which Schmidt
tauntingly asserted that he was the
father of Mrs. Kramer's baby. This
quarrel was patched over, and last
Thursday Schmidt and Mrs. Kramer
fell out about something or other,
when Schmidt struck her two or three
blows with his fist and would have
administered other corporal punish
ment to her had she not fed into a
neighbours rooms for protection. Last
night Kramer came home from his
work, and after supper he went to a
neigh boring bar-room, where he sat
down with some friends to game of
pedro. About eight o'clock Schmidt
went to Mrs. Kramer's apartments un-
der the influence Of liquor and soon
after began abusing her. She replied
in u rough manner to his taunt, when
he hit her on the cheek with his fist,
telling her to the floor, and when she
arose he slashed at her with a knife,
which nearly split her lower lip in
twain. He then left her and went over
to the bar-room where Kramer was
and treated him to glass of beer.
Kramer returned to his room about
ten o'clock when hisl oldest child,
about nine years old, told him of the
trouble between her mother and Sch
midi, and the news made Kramer, who
singular to state under the circum-
stances loved his wife intensely raging
mad. Procuring the family hatchet,
he swore he would tsplit Schmid's
head open if he came up stairs again
In few moments he had an oppOrtu-
nifty to put his threat into execution,
for Schmidt did come up the stairs,
but his wifc restrained him, and he
permitted him to enter the room aud
sit down ON chair.
THE MURDER.
In short time Schmidt made an oh
scene remark to Mrs. Kramer that
maddened Kramer who picked up the
hatchet and sunk its blade full into
Schmidt's head, right over the temple.
crushing in the skull. He struck him
.wo other blows on the head cutting
him terribly. and then he hit him a
terribly blow with the pole Of the wea-
pom full in the mouth splitting his
lips and knocking out number of his
teeth.
Wells, Anderson Cassanave and
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