Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-03-24


She PoisOns Her Three boy. Rather
than be Separated from Them Again.
NEW YORK, March 24.-Minnie Liebknec Aner a
German mother, administered poison TO her three
children this morning at her home, No. LA West
2sth street. or the three, two died, Anthony aged
nlne,' and Charles. aged seven. The third, a boy,
and was removed TO the New York hospital The
mother was arrested and locked up.
Nothing more AWFUL has been recorded on the
police botIers since the wife OF Albert Fritz a
German engraver, killed herself and her three
children with prusslc acid iD Grand street tene-
bndmans bun with % her Children and shot t6e%
10 death In their palatial home on Murray Hill In
either OF these cases insanity furnished at once
the excuse and the explanation OF the unnatural
deed. MIS- Lebknechner Is not Insane.
THE wRErcHED MOTHERS STORY
She Is q woman driven 10 her act by trouble too
great TO bear. She walked In. poorly dressed,
pinched, and wan, with a worn shaw around her
at = O'Clock this morning. Steadying herself
against the desk, she said in dry, hard voice that
she & had killed TWO OF her, her children ana that the
an ofiicer to go with the woman at once TO her
house. Roundsman CLas. Albertson responded,
way the woman told her story In a II tiess, me-
chanical way, as though IL was a worn-out theme
that long since had lost all interest to her.
Her husband was dead, she said; died four
years ago. She had struggled 10 keep the children
together, put failed. They were taken from her
and sent to the juvenile asylum. Only recently
she had got them back with fLfnite trouble
opposed by poverty one side and the persecu-
tlOn OF her husbands rel uves on the other but
she could not Keep them; Work was falling, food
them soon.
RATHER THAN THAT SHE DECIDED TO KILL THEM.
She thought II over, and by Wedn sday had made
Up her mind fully she sent Anthony, the eldest
q the boys, to drug store with a quarter TO Duy
rat poison. The child brought back 10 cents worth
OF "Rough on Rats" Mrs. Lebknechner stirred It
In tea, and, dividing the draft into three equal
parts, gave it 70 the boys TO drink.
%Sinns Very Tss sonS Ga s ss
fngs stea dy the mother stayed with them all that
day, getting about the house without exciting the
sign oil alarm. wednesday night and all Thursday
the little sufferers lay In their dying agoues with
the mother hovering about seeing their little lives
water, and with the merciless cruelty OF q f1end.
the mother gave them whisky TO drink. The two
eldest drank AID cried that they were on fire.
They begged TO he taken out In the back yard
and have the hydrant turned on them, they were
burning up. But their feeble cries found a deaf
ear with the mother and did not reach the outer
world. Unmoved. she went about finishing her
work. At O'Clock Thursday afternoon Charles
died Three hours later his eldest brother breathed
his last. sun the youngest, the baby OF the three
was lie {. With the two viciimsof Der AWFUL crime
lying dead, the mother held steadily TO her nend-
ish purpose. THURSDAY night she sat by her dying
child al. day Friday, and not until Saturday morn
ing, when the little ones grip on life suiii refused
to yield. did she weary Of waiting and went
woman and -o4gicer had reached the door of her
house and she opened It to the oficer. A glance
inside told him that her story was true. In their
bed lay the two boys, long dead and the little one
gasping family on the sofa. The room was meauly
furnished but clean The mother stood unmoved
ss1msd the Ge TOOK sSs
station, and q hurried call was sent for an ambu-
lance. The little one was driven rapidly TO the
hospital and everything was done to save It's life
but this was deemed hopeless
ALLOWED TO KEEP HER CuIIDREHs' PlCrURrR
This morning the mother was taken to Jefferson
Market Police Court, and thence sent TO the coro-
ner's ONCE, where she was committed 70 the
Tombs Before being taken TO the prison she drew
Photographs OF her children from her pocket and
asked II she would be permitted to keep them.
When told that she could retain them she shouted
excitedly: ''They wanted to take my children from
me, but they can't do IL now.S Dr. Conway, dep-
uty coroner. conyersed with MA Leibkurchner
for some time, and expresses the opinion that she
Is suffering nom acute mania
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Special Cable Dtspstch 10 THE EVENING srAa
LoxpoN, March 24-The boat-race OF the r1yal
universities to-day resulted In . victory for Cam
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