Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04

PHILADELPHIA, February 3.-The find
ing of the almost ~lifeless body of a young
woman at Hope street and Montgomery
avenue, with a bullet wound in her head,
has led to a tragedy which has few if any
equals in recent years.
Shortly before II o'clock last night an IN
known woman, subsequently identified as
Anna Klaus, aged 10 years, who lived at
No. 1857 North Second street, was found in
an unconscious condition on the pavement
on Hope street, between Montgomery avenue
and Banks street, with a pistol shot wound
over her left eye. Soon after the young
was sent to st. Mary's Hospital, but died
before her admission, without gaining con-
seriousness. The woman, when found, had
with her a basket containing a few buns,
and this was the only clue which the police
could work. The woman's body was re-
moved to the police station of that district,
and everybody who called was allowed to
view the remains in the hope of establish
the police visited every bakers shop in the
district in the hope of discovering to whom
the buns had been solo.
A CHASTITY MEETING.
About 2 o'clock this morning Henry
Klaus, the father of the unfortunate girl,
having become alarmed at his daughters
prolonged absence, visited the Central
police station and furnished a description of
the missing girl. This Tailed with the MUIR
dered girls appearance, and the father,
upon going to the Eighteenth district, was
Mortified to find his child was a corpse in
that police station. The body, after being
fully identified, was removed to the Klaus
home and detectives were assigned to dis
cover the perpetrator of the deed.
An all-night search revealed several fe-
male friends of the dead girl, and from
them the information was obtained that she
had been keeping company with a con-
ductor on the Second and Third street rail-
way, who was known to the girl and her as
s~ociates as Tom Linn, but no such person
could be found. Further inquiry among
some of Miss Klaus young lady friends,
with whom she was employed in one of the
mills in the Kensington district, revealed
the identity of Linn as Otto Kayser, 25
years Of age, who lived with his wife and
two children at Kensington and Lehigh
venues
A SCENE OF B~LOODSHED.
1t was also learned that KaYser, under the
name of Linn, had been secretly paying at
t~entions 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 that he was the muir
derer, and went to his house to arrest him.
As no replies came to their repeated
knocking, the officers were about to break
open the door, when it was hastily opened,
and they were met by a woman in her night
with blood streaming from her
throat and a baby in her arms. She directed
the officers to the second story, wherein,
stretched on the bed with a razor at
his side, lay { Kayser, the blood
from q wound in his
neck. Mrs. Kayser was removed to the
hospital, but Kayser died before an ambu-
lance could reach him. The circumstances
surrounding the case were fully convincing
Klaus, and when he saw the officers coming
to arrest him he seized a razor, and after
an Intellectual attempt to kill his
wife by cutting her throat, he ended his own
life with the same weapon.
theory OF THE CRIME
The absence of the revolver with which
he shot Miss Klaus is explained by the fact
that when he returned to his home after the
he was intoxicated, and became so
that his mother-in-law, who lived
with him and his wife, was obliged to send
for a policeman, who took the weapon away
from him.
The most plausible story of the affair is
hat Kayser had been keeping company
with Miss Klaus under an assumed name,
md that she had discovered the real truth,
Ind having met him on her way home from
he bakers last night, threatened him with
exposure. He thereupon shot her and went
nome as already stated. Rather than
to arrest he killed himself. He was
! tinsmith by trade, but has been employed
Is a car conductor for some time. He had
been married four years and leaves two
aged 1 and 8 years respectively.
Miss Klaus was o mill hand and lived with
her parents in the same neighborhood. Mrs.
.ayser's wounds, though dangerous, are
,ot necessarily fatal