New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-23
MURDERED BY HER HUSBAND
A VICTIM OF JEALOUS FRENZY.
DELIBERATE MURDER OF MRS. JOHANNA BREr

| DELIBERATE MURDER OF MRS. JOhANNA bhEi-
MANN AFTER TWO MONTHS OF MARRIED LIFE.
terrible crime was brought to light yesterday
by the police of the Eighteenth Precinct. Mrs.
Johanna Breimann, the wife of a German baker.
was found murdered in her room on the third floor
| Of the tenement-hOuse No. 512 East Sixteenth-st.
! On the table lay letter, written by her husband.
| in which be stated that he had killed her because
she was unfathful to him. The woman had lain
| dead since Thursday night Whether her husband,
after killing her, had fled with their savings or bad
sought death in the river has not yet been dscov-
cred by the police.
The Breimann family hired two rear rooms in the
! house two months ago Of Jacob Becker the land
lord They were then newly married. The bus
band Frederick Emil Breimann. was by trade baker
and worked in George Heubner's bakery at No. 100
Seventh-ave The wife was good-looking German
woman of twenty-five years, Woodworking and
thrifty They had not lived long in the house be-
fore the mans insane and apparently unfounded
jealousy drove him to acts of violence, and he was
frequently heard to beat his wife, In their quaTrels
a sum of money which Mrs. Breimann had saved up
before her marriage played part as well. The
baker wanted this money. said to amount to over
$780, in order that he might begin business on his
own account, but his wife opposed the plan and re-
fused to surrender the bank book To her ncighbors
who had grown to like the patient woman, Mrs.
was unreasonable and violent, and once or twice
they called upon to protect her against his
| brutality.
On Thursday evening the woman visited a Mrs.
| Lopez, whose rooms adoin her own, and told her
| that she had found some work to do and was going
out in the morning early. Shortly after Mrs. Lopez
| heard Mrs. Breimann talking to her husband in
their bedroom, and thought that they had retired.
The peace of the house not disturbed that
night but at 10 o'clock another neighbor beard the
baker walk hurriedly down the stairs The next
morning the bakers door remained closed, and
neither he nor his wife was seen. The matter ex-
cited no suspicion, as it was thought that the
woman was out at work. But yesterday after
noon, when Mrs. Becker, the landlords wife, tried
| to enter and found the door still closed she was
! curious enough to procure o chair. and with
! neighbOr woman got uD and looked through the fam
! light over the door. They saw the room bespat-
tered with blood and alright sent for the police
Three officers burst open the door and found Mrs.
Brennan, with her throat cut from ear to ear lying
upon her bed in her night clothes She had been
| dead since Thursday night. Her attitude was ono
Ofdesperae self-defence, and black bruises on her
! body and limbs showed that violent struggle had
taken place. On the floor beside the bed lay an
open casp-knife and razor. The murderer had
used both, taking up the razor apparently when he
found the knife too duh. sponge had been thrust
into the gaping wound in the woman's throat, with
| fendish cunning, to prevent her death-rattle from
| being heard IN the adjoining room. trunk that
contained the dead wOmaus private property had
been enpticd OF the floor and its contents appar-
emily turned over in haste. Flung upon the floor
were n man, clothes covered with blood. The MUIR
dcrcr had washed himself and changed his clothes
before he went away. On the table the centre of
the room the police found the explanation of the
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paper, which saloOn-kccper in the house recog-
nized as having been given by him to Breimann,
with pencil, at O'Clock on Thursday night, at hS
| request The note ran follows:
bring to the notice OF the worthy Court or the CITY
Of N,wYork the fact that bavc cut the throat OF my
! wife because she baS been uhIalthiul 10 me.
God be with me- Amens EMIL BREIMANN.
Among the papers in the trunk, the police found
the marriage certificate of the unhappy couple.
| They were married March %, III the Norfolk
! Street Reformed Church. The wOman's maiden
! namo WAS Johanna BehuIe. The year Of his birth
was given as 1850, and his native town Breuns-
| dorf, in Germany. The handbook was not found.
Breimann had been discharged from Mr..
! Heubneps bakery on Thursday morning, and
! from this moment probably dated the resolution,
witch ne had been gradually forming for some
time before. ~ XIII his wife. Brcimanp, though
! sober was not II steady workman, and his actions
! had made his fellOw-WOrknen believe that he was
of uuSUuud mind. At timcS, whlle at his work, he
! would complain bitterly of his witr5 unfaithful-
EpSS ana Ne h3u frequently Salu tlat no NouIu NH
her and either take her money and 90 to England,
| or kill himself atterWard. The fact that be has ap
| parently taken the bank-bOOk makes it probable
! that he has chosen the former course. On WedneS-
! day he spoke OF an unsuccessful attempt he had
made 10 get the money from his wife, and Invited
| the baker and fellow workman to 90 out and hang
| themselves with him on the hooks of a butchers
meat rack adjoining the bakery His yagaTles ended
! ~ his discharge on Thursday morning, when he
seemed particularly moTOse. The police have ascer-
! taurd that Brcimann met his wife in Connecticut.
where he working and married her. counting
upon her money to bring him Independence In his
early uit ne had been in South America, and for
sunlr crime had been compelled to lee from Chill to
Peru. His stories OF his witt5 untaIthluiness are
diScIedi; ed bv the nPighburS who have known her
and unite III declaring that she n good wife.