The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10


tior for double tragedies. Until very recent
w X was thought that what had occurred
was merely an accident The Mucho-Zapf
trn- ely. which occurred in April, re-
suited in the serious wounding of Christie
peer Mucho, who was shot by an old man
Hamed Adam Zapf, after which Zapf com-
mitted suicide. Mucho finally recov-
cred from his weund. The next
horror was the cutting OF Mrs. Schssler with
a knife by her husband, Edward Schissler,
who. a few moments later, killed himself
with revolver, under the Morris street
bridge. Mrs. Schissler also recovered. The
next tragedy OF this character was the shoot
ing of Jacob Bush by Jacob Altenberger,
who then shot young man named Camp
bell by accident, and then walked
into The rear of an Enclosure
and ended his own life with the re
revolver used 70 shoot Bush. Both Bush and
Altenherrer died within an hour after the
shooting occurred. bat Campbell finally re-
covered.
The fourth double tragedy occurred yester-
Cav afternoo about ): 30 O'Clock ut the cor
uer OF Georgia asld Benton streets The
cause for the deed is mystery
All attempts To get at the facts
bV The reporters were futile aud only by
theories can the affair De accounted for.
However. at the hCur above mentioned d..
!. w Stanford WIS driving along the street
az that point when he heard three shots
fired With his usual promptness OF action
he stopped his horse and got out TO inquire
into the cause OF the matter. He had heard
a woman scream and rightly surmISed that
she had been shot. a woman came toward
him, and Ot her ne inquired
as TO the trouble. She asked II
he was q physician and upon being
answered afirmatvely, she told him to go to
the woman who WIS then lying on the step.
Dr. Stratford stepped up to tho woman and
raised her from the steps of the porch. \
glance told him she was dead. The physl
clan. after taking her into the house, turned
TO the next room and found the body OF
man in bed He too was dead. Beside his
bed was a small derringer pistol, carrying
abouta No. - ball.
AN EXCITED CROWD
gathered around the house in a moment.
and in the confusion nothing could be
learned. Everybody who knew anything
bearing remotely or directly upon the affair
was telling il and the balance were listening
to II, uttering EXCAVATIONS and asking Ques-
tons IL was of no use to try to find out
the exact truth about the matter then, and
the body o. he murdered woman was taken
TO her residence, which is the second q COR
south OF Georgia street on the west side OF
Noble street. KregelO was telephoned, and
he soon came and took charge of the body
OF the man found in the bed. Albert Nesf
who is the husband of the murdered woman
and who clerks for MosSler Brothers. was
called home by telephone.
TIE WOUNDS
tell their own story. Mrs. Mary Neff, the
woman who was shot, was found TO have
been struck by ball from the revolver one
and a half inches below the right collar
bone. The ball entered her breast as she
faced the man who killed her There was
severlng OF arteries which was the immedi-
ate canse of her death, and which will he
best described by the physicians who make
the post mortem. William Fultz the man who
was found dead in the bed, was shot directly
through the heart. Death in the first case
occurred within a minute after the first shot
was fired. and the second fatal bullet caused
instantaneous death.
THE FACTS,
as nearly as can be obtained py series of in
teTviews. are as follows: Mrs. Neff went to
the house of her sister, Mrs. Lizzie NOyes,
who lives on the southeast corner of Georgia
and Benton streets, about o'clock yesterday
afternoon TO do some sewing. Mrs Noyes
had an GRAND to attend to, and left the
house with the intention of returning in a
short time Itwas about an hour and half
nlediately upon the firing of the shot Mrs.
Neif rushed cut of the room into the room
next to Benton street, and
gasped out to Mrs. Marsh, a tailoress,
who occupies that room: ''Send for
my husband" Mrs. Marsh, who is a little
hard of hearing, did not fully comprehend
her. and asked her what she wanted. Mrs
NefTE1ade no reply to this. but moved again
toward the door opening out on the porch.
At the edge of the porch she fell. dropping
10 the second step, where she died Mrs.
Marsh was so alarmed that she did not
know what to do and she jumped cut of the
window aud over the fence, and upon turn
ing around she saw Mrs. NeH just as she was
falling.
An examination kaade by Drs. Stratford and
Hodges proved, to their minds at least, that
the first shot had struck Mrs Nef The Sec
Ond was either aimed at her was fired at
random. The range OF this shot indicated
that il had been fired by Fultz while he was
in bed, as K struck the-door near the ton and
the door being in an angling position, the
ball glanced and entered the wall in an ad-
joining room. The third shot was then fred
at his own heart, and as effective as if it had
been the result OF long pEactice. There is no
one 70 say Just how it occurred, but there is
10 doubt that Fultz fired the shots.
The STORIES AFLoAT
are numerous aEd, of course, many are con-
Trajectory. One story was told by some
woman, whose name could not be learned.
to the effect that Mrs. Nef and Fultz had
been TO the beer garden kept by George
Deluse. On the corner of Noble and Georgia
streets ia the morning, and that they came
away FROM there quarreling- This was not
substantiated, nor was there any one to
deny il. Mr.. Deluse said he did not know
whether they had been there together or not
He added, however, that Fultz had been in
two or three times, out that he was very
quiet and orderly, and that he never had
been in With Mrs Neff. AIR. De-
Iuse said that the murdered woman
and her sister Mrs. NOyes had on a number
of occasions been in the garden aud taken a
glass OF beer together, but beyond this he
could not give any information.
The Sentinel reporter then called on Mrs.
NOyes She found in the room where
her sister was placed She said she had moth
ing to add to the matter. as she had left the
house and did not arrive home until her
sister was a corpse. She, however
gave this relation in answer
to queries: Her sister had
come over to get her to assist in some sew
ing Mrs Noyes said she had to go to the
Postofice to mail a letter, but that she
would come back Immediately As she
turned TO 60 from the house she said. 'I'll
not lock my bureau drawer" Mrs Nef re-
Piled. No. its no use; you needn't be