Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-04
CROOKED LOVE.
A Married Man Courts Girl Under an
Assumed Name-The Fatal Result.
When Threatened with Exposure he Kills the
Girl, Tries to Kill His Wife and Then
Commits Suicide.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. 3.-The
finding of the almost lifeless body of II
young woman at Hope street and Mont
gomery avenue, with bullet wound in
her head, has led to tragedy which has
few if any equals i'll recent years. Shortly
before IL 'clock last night an unknown
woman, subsequently identified as Anna
Klaus, aged nineteen years, who lived at
No 1857 North Second street, was found
in an unconscious candition on the
pavement on Hope street, with
pistol shot wound over the left eye.
Soon after the yonng woman was sent to
ST. Mary's hospital but died before her
admission without gaining consciousness.
The woman when found had with her
basket containing a few buns and this
was the only clew on which the
police could work. The woman IS
body was removed to the police
body who called was allowed to view the
remains in the hope of establishing the
identity of the victim In addition the
police visited every bakershOp in the dis
trict in the hope of discovering to whom
the buns had been sold. About o clock
this morning Henry Klaus, father of the
unfortunate girl, having become alarmed
at his daughter prolonged absence
visited the Central police station and fur
nished description of the missing girl.
This tailed with the murdered girls APP
pearance and the father, upon
going to the Eighteenth street
station, was Mortified to find
HIS CHILD WAS CoRPE
in the police station. The body after be-
ing fully identified was removed to Klaus
home and detectives were assigned to
discover the perpetrator of the deed. An
all-mght search revealed several female
friends of the dead girl, and from them
information was obtained that she had
been keeping company with conductor
on the Second and Third street railway
who was known to the girl and her asso-
ciates as Tom Lynn, but no such person
could be found. Further in
curry among some of Miss Klaus
friends with whom she was employed
in one of the mills in the Kensington dis
trict revealed the identity of Lynn as
Otto Kayser, twenty-five years of age
who lived with his wife and two children
at KensingtOn and Lehigh avenue. Itwas
also learned that Kayser under the name
tions to Miss Klaus as he had been for
hidden by her parents to visit their
house. He had presented himself as an
UNMARRIED MAN.
As he had been seen in her company the
police suspected he was the murderer
and went to his house to arrest him. AS
no replies came to their repeated knock
ing the officers were about to break open
the door when it was hastily opened and
then they were met by woman in her
night clothing with blood streaming
from her throat and a baby in her arms.
She directed the officers to the seeondstory
where streached on the bed with razor
at his side lay Kayser, the blood pouring
from a wound in his neck. Mrs. Kavser
was removed to the hospital, but Kayser
died before an ambulance could reach
him. The oircumstancess1Irr the
case were fully convincing thatKayser was
the murderer of Miss Klaus. When he
saw the officers coming to arrest him he
seized razor and after making an
Intellectual attempt to kill his wife by
cutting her throat he ended his own life
with the same weapon. The absence of
the revolver with which he shot Miss
Klaus is explained by the fact that when
he returned home after the shooting
he was intoxicated and became so
boisterous that his mOther-in- law. who
lived with him and his wife were Obliged
to send for a policeman, who took the
weapon away from him. The most plaus-
ible story OF the affair is that Kayser had
been keeping company with Miss Klaus
under an assumed name and she had
discovered the real truth of the matter,
and having met him while on her
way home from the bakers last night
she threatened him with exposure. He
thereupon shot her and went home as
already stated Rather than submit to
the officers he killed himself. He had
been married four years and leaves chill
dren aged one and three years respect
lively Mrs. Kayser's wounds, though
dangerous, are not necessarily fatal.