Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-16
THE SYRACUSE TRAGEDY.
A Young Woman Shooting. her lsetrayer ,
then Killing Herself.

"A Young Woman Shooting her lSetrayer and
then Killing Herself.
A shocking double tragedy which was
| brough to light Saturday afternoon caused
intense excitement in Syracuse, n. Y. On
Friday night man and a woman entered
the City hotel, 90 West Fayette street, and
the man engaged room for himself and
wife. He paid dollar, and was
shown to his room. The couple
| not making their appearance at
breakfast or dinner Saturday the proprietor
of the hotel, Charles COppins, opened
| the door of their room with another key,
| and found both of his guests dead. The
woman lay on the floor at the foot of the
bed, with bullet hole in her right tenn
pie. The man was lying on the bed, with
with Il bullet wound in his right temple.
well-knJwn musician and bandmaster,
aged 80 years, and his cousin, Amelia
Mantz,a domestic. 1t is supposed that they
quarreled after retiring, and that the girl
shot Mantz while he was asleep, and after
ward committed suicide. On Mantz's per-
son were found large number of letters
written to him by 4 circus performer, with
whom he seemed to be in love. Nobody
in the neighborhoOd heard the shooting.
When found the bodies were rigid, and had
been dead probably ten or twelve hours.
Fully 10000 persons visited the under
taking rooms where the bodies are lying.
Policemen were required to clear the
streets.
1t proves to be the old story the girl
loved not wisely but too well. She formed
an attachment for her cousin, and for four
or five years showed great affection for
him, but he did not seem to care for her.
About a year ago she had child by him.
Mantz promised to marry her if she would
not divulge who the father of her child
was, and she kept its parentage a secret.
When her father died he left some
property, her share of which amount
cd to $500. Two years ago she
lent Mantz this amount, and he said he
would make her his wife. While he
was at Cortland last fall she went to that
place to induce him to marry her. Mantz
laughed at her and said, derisively, ''It
would never Go for me to marry yOu.'
She returned home almost heartbrOken and
poured the tale of her misfortune into the
ears of her brother Augustus and his wife,
They advised her to have nothing to do
with Julius, but with woman's hope
and faith she clung to him. At
length she grew Respondent and began
to talk about death. She did not
threaten to kill herself nor Julius, but
told her sister-in-law how she wished to
be dressed when She was buried. She read
the account of the shooting at Lyons some
time ago. When Francis HOvey shot her
father and then killed herself Frances
held hand glass SO that she might take
sure aim. On Tuesday night Amelia Wis
tied her sister-in-law, and speaking of the
Lyons tragedy, said &: "How happy I
should be if could do that. What a brave
girl she was"
On Friday evening about Z o'clock
Julius called for Amelia. She was suffer-
ing from sore eye, and he said he came
to take her to the doctors. She put up
her work and and the two left the house
together. They must have walked about
the city for some time and then went to the
City hotel. Mantz must have retired and
fallen asleep while Amelia was
sitting in the chair. She undoubtedly had
procured the pistol and glass some time
before, and, previous to going out of
the house where she was employed,
slipped them into her pocket, hard
ly dreaming that she should use them.
She had doubtless begun to disrobe
when she thought of the pistol, and, form
ing the resolution in an instant, took the
revolver from her pocket and fired bullet
into his brain. Then, while the weapon
was still smoking, stood at the foot of the
bed, and taking aim by hand glass sent
bullet into her own brain. A young man
who slept in the building adjoining says
that about II o'clock on Friday night he
heard two shots, followed by heavy fall.
No one in the hotel heard the shots. The
relatives of the girl think that she loved
Julius too much to coolly premeditate his
murder. They believe that she shot him
on the impulse of the moment