New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-16
PRICE FOUR CENTS.
CRIMES OF A JEALOUS MAN.


SUICIDE AFTER ATTEMPTED MURDER.
AN IDLE GERMAN wooDcARvER BECOMES JEALOUS
OF AN OLD FAMILY PRIESD. AND sHooTss HIM IN
THE srREET-BLowING OUT HIS OWN DRAINS
DETAILS OF THE CRIME-LovE LETTERS THAT
EXCITED sUsPIcIoN-coNDrTIoS OF THE WOUND
ED MAN.
Emil Pauly, age twenty-five, a German
woodcarver, was shot yesterday at noon, in
Eldridge-st., by Ernst Stephen Memeroth, q
friend in whose house he lived Memeroth,
who was maddened by jealousy, thinking his
victim dead, blew out his own brains. The
shooting took place in the street, in the pres
ence of the murderer's wife and children.
Pauly was taken to the hospital with four
pistol bullets in his body. At The New-York
Hospital last night the house surgeon said
that the wounds were not necessarily fatal.
SHOOTING HIS FRIEND IN THE BACK.
Memeroth and Pauly were both Germans, natives
of Berlin. They had not been long in this country.
MemerOth, who also a carvcr, was thirty-three
years old His wife. Anna, had been brought up
With Pauly from childhood. Memeroth was Of
violent, jealous disposition, confirmed hypocon-
driac, and already in 1873 wnile his family was
still in Germany, gave cause by his violence for
legal proceedings that ended in a separation Of the
couple. A reconciliation effected after
a while, aud Memeroth came to America.
A few months later he wrote to his wife TO join
him in New-York aud to bring along the two chill
dren and young Pauly, as lie could earn more money
here than at home. The family, escorted by Pauly,
arrived in this city year ago. Both the men found
work at shop in Chrystie-st.. and for months
the family has lived in the second floor Of
the tenement house No. 33 Eidridge-st. But Mem
u, ID i'm
excuse for not working His wife and Panty believed
that be was lazy, and occasionally told him that
work would cure his sickness. This made illfeeling
and gave occasion to domestic broils. Memeroth
became morose and threatened suicide. Recently
he brought poison into the house and invited his
wife to join him in death, with the children So
great was the fear excited by his threats that,
cordng to Mrs Memeroth's testimony before Coroner
Knox. neither she nor the boarder had slept for
several nights, but lay awake waiting for an out
break OF violence on the part of the husband. It
MO Monday night MemerOth had been quarrelsome
and had even excited Pauly, usually good-natured.
to wrath. He had found three letters written by
his boarder containing passionate love-poems in the
German tongue They were signed g YOup loving
Emiln and in one of them the wifes name, Anna,
was mentioned. They were not addressed TO any
person. but Memeroth found in them an lntimation
of a sympathy which he was ready to believe ex-
isted between his wife and the boarder. That there
was any foundation for the suspicion is den1ed oy
casion for fierce attack on her and the boarder.
The neighbors heard the quarrel late at night tneY
seemed to have become reconclled, and yesterday
morning parted as friends.
Pauly went to bis work and Memeroth stayed at
home brooding over his troubles. In the forenoon.
he took his little boy, Alfred, out to walk and IN
large revolver and box of cartridges. He told the
child to say nothing to anyone OF this purchase.
Returning he tod hs HSS Te TO get FeSy a iCr
EMPLOYED and called him out. He spoke to him In
cheerful tone. and asked him to go round to the
house. Pauy complied, and Mrs MemsrOth, seeing
the men apparently on the friendliest terms,
wa was delighted. Her husband was in
excellent ts%S sD waESS SS sUOe fs
with animation Of his intention to open barber
shop when he could get together money that was
walked ahead with che seven year-old daughter of
his host. Behind him came Memerotb, his wife
and their boy. They were going toward Canal-st.
work They had gone hardly dozen steps from
the door when MemerOth, without word, pulled
from bis overcoat pocket the revolver he had bought
in the morning, and running up behind Pauly, fired
a shot at his back.
The bullet struck the, yOnng man 10 the neck and
effort to rise he put his arms over his head aud
crouched beside an ash-barre with his back to the
assassin, without looking up to see who II was. Not
a word was spoken by either, but while the screams
of the terrified wife and the children filled the street
Memeroth stood over his victim. and with the pistol
close enough to burn his clothes emptied three
barrels of the revolver into Pauy's body.s At tho
fourth shot Pauly arose. and staggering across tho
street fell on the opposite sidewalk The muTderery
giaring around saYagely. ran into narrow alley
leading to the rear yard of No. AZ Eldridge-st, A
crowd of children who were playing there fed at
the approach of the enraged man. and he stood for
a moment irresolute, with the weapon IN hia
hand; then he walked to the mouth Of the
alley. and looked searchingly at the body
on the opposite sidewalk. Satisfied, apparently,
that bis enemy dead, he turned about and reen-
tered the ally. A few minutes later when crowd
OF excited neighbOrs led by the caryeTs wife, ran IN
from the street, another report rang through the
alley and the murderer fell dead at their feet shos
through the head. He had held the pistol to his lefa
temple aud the bullet had crashed through the brain
and out through the right eye.
The police took Panty TO the Eldridge Street sta
ton and telegraphed for au ambnlPnCe. One OF tue
bullets had passed through the shoulder and broken
the bone; another was buried in the neck ana could
not be found The other two had crushed the bone
of his arm and had entered his side lie was con-
scious, but could not speak.
Coroner Knox took Mrs. MemerOths testimony IN
the afternoon IL contained the facts set forth Above
The won an denied that her husband had any cause
for jealousy, or that he had even charged her with
unfaithfulness. The police find in The !etteIs,whc
were still in the dead carver's pcs, SSon, evidence
that Pauly was in love with Mis-. MeInerOth IN
romantic fashion. but there is nothing to Indicate
that this feeling was shared encouraged by her,
or that she even knew OF 1t. The neghbors describe
the family as very quiet and respectable. lhe
woman cried bitterly during her examination, and
her two bright children endeayOsed Vainly 10 con-
sole her, At her request tue body OF her husband
was sent to the Morgue. She will endeayor TO RAISE
money TO pay for the burial. The sum of $l7 10 was
found in his pockets she had no other money.
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