Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-01
IT is MURDER.
MRS HILDgBRANDT. DIES FROM THE GUN
SHOT WOUND.
A COrOnsr's Inquest and Post MOrtsm EHamlnah0l
Hsld-fhs Remains Buried Yesterday
AftsrnUn-Addihonal Details.

and silent. There was no one within and
sombre solitude held sway. The husband
was incsrcerated in the county jail; the
wife lsy stiff and cold in death under SIX
feet of earth in the Peninsula cemetery,
the supposel victim of her husband g
hand, which held the revolver that IN
flicted a fatal wound.
Tbeshooting of Mrs Lou Hildebrandt py
her husband, Saturday evening, was fully
chronicled in Sunday mornings REGISTER
and it was then thought the wound would
prove fatal, bat nothing definite could be
said.
At about three o'clock yesterday morn
inc the victim breathed her last, and her
,oul passed into the dim beyond. Mrs.
Hildebrandt was conscious up to the time
of death, and when she felt the Grim
Rsapsr's icy fingers fastening themselves
on her heart she asked
THOSE STANDING BESIDE HEB -,
bed if her husband would have to suffer as
much a. she did, which TO one could an
aver, She then said that she didn't want
To have him suffer for what he had done,
and she repeated this number Oh tlmes'
They were about her last words. =,
The poor woman suffered terribly, ana
there is no wonder she Eoped no such rate
shouid befall her husband. She expecto-
rated blood almost constantly up 10 the
time of her death.
ooroner Schults was notified OF her
death about 4:3O O'Clock, and he slmo,t
Immediately summoned County Physician
Wilson. Arrangements were made for an
ipuuest, which was held about 1880 O'Clock
Yesterday morning. The following jury
was impanelled: J. J. Clyker, foreman f;
Nicholas Herbert, II. G. Senne, Frank
Wslthers. Robert Clark, Albert @. Gunther.
VIM. Ashworth, J. F. Horner, J.T. Crogan,
Philip Youugman, Gustave d. Medick
and F. Druschel. The inquest was held
at the Hilbebrandt residence, and the tes-
timony adduced was as follows:
MRS. CAROLINE COOK,
vbo lives next door east of the Hide
brandt residence being duly sworn testi-
fed rs follows:
Saturday night Mr. Louis Hildebrandt
came into my house and sat down on q
chsir He said in German: Something 10
going to happen tonight He spoke IN a
low tone of voice but / understood him
Mrs. Mary Hildebrandt the deceased }
came into NV house and said to her hus-
band Damn you, does Mr.. Cook come
into my Louise when you are not at homer
She then jerked him out of the house. He
lodged and did not want to 60 out, put
she pulled him out. She locked the door
of her own house when abe got him IN. 1
heard her ask him for more money. Sne
said. You only gave me FIVE dollars' l
[ want some more moaey. You must I'M
derstand," she said to him, THAT l am
not going to he your -, do you hear
meP' She said, You can't handle me any
more as you think you can Then
heard slap. She must have slapped HIM
because he commenced to cry. Then Just
at that she cried out:
Lou! Lou! You are not going to shoot
me, are you?'
Then the shot was fired, and | ran up
to the steps. heard her say:
lyon put me to my long home
|
fired / went into my front room and did
not hear any more. She wanted somebody
to help her, but shut the door because l
was afraid of him, He was down Stairs
and might shoot some more. | live up
stairs. | did net see him shoot her, hat
heard the shots fired. She was under the
influence of liquor. There was no one in
the alley at the time of the shooting, l
did not see anyone He WAS el1o drunk;
he was very drunk be was not danger
ous man. ] was not afraid OF him only
when he was drunk. There was no one IN
H'ldebrandt's house except himself and
wife. | am sure he did the shooting"
PATRICK WEIR,
bsing duly SWORD, testified as foliows:
81 was coming home about 7 o'clock
Saturday night and saw Ben Stephens
standing on John Heinlein's corner, on the
opposite side of the street Stephens called
me over and said there was somebody shot
over there. asked him to come up and
we would see. We came up and got IN
the yard, and Mrs. Mary Hildebrandt, the
same lying here dead, was lying in her
yard on her back with her feet on the last
step and her head in pool Of water Ny
self, Ben Stephens and two more me7,
think Chas Grist was one, carried her into
the front room and laid her
on the floor. 1 told some one
to telephone for doctor. No doctor
came and I went after DR.. Schwinn who
came. When we got up here she was in
bed. Shortly afterward DR.. Taylor came
asked Mrs. Mary Hildebrandt what
caused the shooting. She said she was
drinking aud her husband was drinking
tho. She told me that her husband shot
ut her three times, the last shot taking ef-
feet in her back, as che was going out OF the
door into the back yard"
THE POST MoRTEM.
DR.. Wilson, assisted by Drs Schwinn,
K. M. Baird and Birney held post NOR
team examination on the body OF Mrs. Hill
debrandt. The unfortunate woman, VINO
was only twenty-lour years OF age, was
perfectly formed and all her organs were
| in a fine state OF health, her heart being as
sound as q solid rubber ball.
The result of Dr. Wilson's examination,
as sworn to by him, was that he exam
ined the body of Mary Hildebrands; that
he found gunshot wound 10 the back,
which penetrated the chest and opened n
large vein, causing death by hemorrhage.
THE JURY's VERDICT.
The Jury then retired, and presently re-
turned tie following verdict:
"Tha. the said Mary HIldebrandt came
TO her death from a gunshot wound, on
the evening of the 29th day Of September,
1888, caused by pistol suppose to have
been in the hands Of and fired by Louis
Hildebrandt, her husband"
| Corner Schultze notified G. Mendel &
Co. and the body of the dead woman was
prepared for burial. The funeral took
place from the residence at o'clock yes
terdsy afternoon, the intermsnt being at
Peninsula cemetery. The ueighbors were
the only ones who attended the funeral as
the murdered womsn's parents were nm
known and she seemed to have no rela.
tivss-st least they could not be found.
The funeral was, indeed, q sad one.
Hildebrandt was taken from the lookup
yesterday and committed TO jail, without
bail, on q warrant made out by Justice
Davis, charging him with murder. The
date Of the hearing has not yet been set
The murder was the chief topic Of CONVEX
sa.ion in the city yesterday, and it was
talked of on street corner and in parlor,