Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-18
A DIsCARDED Lovers RAGE.
firing Three Shots Through . Ceiling Int
the Room 1t the Object Of HIS

the Room at the object Of HIS
Affections.
Themoleon Cailteau, young French
man, who claims to be an educa ted elec.
trician, was before Justice Morgan at the
jefferson Market police court, New York,
to answer a charge of felonious assault.
Miss Blanche Siegrist, a young and pre-
possessing woman, accused him with hav
ing fired three shots at her on Sunday
night with intent to take her life
at her mothers house, No. 22 Charl-
ton street. Mrs. Marietta Siegrist,
the mother, under the stage name Of
Marie Zanfretta, some years ago was per-
former on the tight rope and her husband
was noted as 4 pantomimist. Mrs. Sic
greist is reported to be quite we'll of. She
lives in good style in Charlton street in 4
house which she owns, and Cailteau has
boarded there for three months past. To
Miss Blanche he paid marked attentions,
which the young woman says were not
agreeable to her. Both she and her mother
frequently told him they must cease, but
he paid no need to these warnings and
continued his attentions until they became
prosecutions.
On Sunday evening Mrs. Siegrist called
him into the parlOr, and in the presence
of her daughter, told him he could no
longer remain in the house. He was
greatly enraged at this, and drew large
revolver from his pocket. Miss Siegrist
taking refuge in her own room
three pistol shots. The bullets
passed through the ceiling of the
parlor and the floor of the room
ol>o,vo Io;orp n
age. Mrs. Siegrist said that when her
man exclaimed "Ah, that is it. Since
one else shall have her, and then he de-
liberately fired the three shots through
the ceilin. of the room into the room
above, in which the footsteps of her daugh-
ter could be distinctly heard. After firing
the shots he threw the pistol down and
ran out of the house, but was subsequent
ly arrested by Patrolman Moran, OF the
8th precinct.
When arraigned in court the accused
listened with great interest to the state
ments of Mrs. Siegrist and her daughter,
which were interpreted to him by the
chief clerk. When asked what he had to
say he declined to make any statement at
present, as he desired first to consult with
counsel. He was committed to prison for
trial in default of $4,000 bail. In his cell
Cailteau said to reporter that he had
been in New York for five years. He fell
| in love with Miss Blanche and was led to
believe that his love was reciprocatcd,
as his attentions were we'll received.
Finally they became engaged, and were
to DO married sometime during the
coming autumn. lie was very happy
in his anticipatiOns of the future until
he found that Miss Blanche was
receiving the visits of another man.
She became cold and distant toward him,
and he was finally discarded. This treat,
ment enraged him, and when Mrs, Siegrist
told him he must seek lodgings elsewhere
he was mad with rage and despair. Aban
doning all hope he determined to kill him.
self. The weapon was rustcd, and the
spring so stiff that in pulling the trigge:
he was compelled to use SO much force
that the weapon was diverted from its aim
and the bullet entered the ceiling. Thrice
he cssaycd to shoot himself, but with the
same result, and then, disguised with the
weapon that had so disappointed him, Ii
threw it away and fled from the house
Caulteau denied in the most positive terms
that he intended to shoot Miss Siegrist
or that he meant her any harm. The pris
oner is a man of good education and i.
evidently Of respectable connections.