Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-07-24
TIE END OF i WILD BEAsr.
A Jersey Farmer Mo Had shot 20
Times aV His son, shoots sis
wife Twice ana EIIm-
self Once, uitd Ef-
fectivelY.
Now YORK world.


Jacob Kuntz, Il farmer living "a
Homestead Station, Hudson county,
N. j., shot his wife Anne Maria ut
Union Hill yesterday morning,
fatally iniuring her, and then blow
his own brains out. Kuntz and his
wife were both old. and Kuntz had
wearied his wife with his drunken
and uncleanly living. For twenty
years they have lived unhappily,
and Kuntz had in ten years wasted
most of fortune Of $4,000. lie
abused his wife, and when he muir
dered her was under $1,000 bail to
answer for series OF violent as
saults al on her. Some years ago
he beat her into insensibillty with
a club, then, believing that he had
killed her he hid her body In a
snOw-bank. His little son, then
four years old, alarmed the neigh
bors, who rescued his mother.
Eight or nine weeks ago Mrs.
Kuntz left her husband and went
to the the house OF her son, old
Stoppels Hall, on the corner of IIud-
son avenue and Franklin street,
Union Hill. Soon afterwards she
began a suit for divorce, and within
the last few days an application has
been made by her counsel for a
division of Kuntz's estate. Kunis
went to the lawyer and threatened
to kill him il he did not withdraw
from the case. At the same time
he declared that he would kill his
wife at the first opportunity.
Kuntz's son, too, had excited Ills
animosity by espousing his mOthes's
cause. The father resented this In
reference by shooting at the young
man when he got a chance. Young
kuntZ said yesterday that during
the last two years his father had
shot at him twenty-six times and
hit him four times, once putting a
bullet through his throat so that his
life was despaired of. At O'Clock
yesterday morning Kuntz got out
of bed and loaded with ball n
double-barrelled shotgun and a
five-barreled revolver, and draped
both Of the weapons with black
Grape. Then he set out for Union
Hill. His wife intended to go upon
a picnic with the Lutheran Evan
gelical Church people yesterday,
and was up at 5 O'Clock. Half an
hour later she stepped out of the
door to get basket she had lent TO
q neighbor. She had gone but "A
few steps when she was confronted
by her husband. He levelled his
gun nj her and fired. She was run
ming towards the house. When she
reached the foot Of the steps she fell
and he fired at her with the pistol.
Her son ran to her aid. The sons
wife watched the movements OF
the murderer from the second story
window. Kuntz levelled his revol-
yer at her and she quickly with
drew. Then he put his pistol to hls
mouth and blew his brains out. lie
fell to the ground, his hands by his
side, as If prepared to be buried im-
Mrs. Carrie Kuntz, the
daughter-in-law, ran into the yard,
picked up the gun which Kuntz
had held, and some Of the neighbors
say that i'm her excitement she fired
into his dead body. She says, how
ever, that she only threw the gun
at him and that the weapon was
exploded by the fall. When John
Kuntz got to his mother she was
not yet dead. DIR. Louis Rein was
called and at his examination dis
covered only wound in the arm.
The ball had cut an artery in the
arm and the woman bled copiously.
DIR. Rein did not think that, consid-
ering her age, she could survive the.
shock. After her removal 10 st.
Mary's Hospital, in IOboken, DIR.
Chabert discovered besides the
wound in the arm a very dangerous
wound i'm the breast. She cannot
live.
The son refused to have anything
to do with the fathers remains and
they were taken TO his late home i'm
Station. Coroner Wig
gins, who was notified, has been
directed by County Physician Con-
verse 10 hold an inquest.