Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-02-04
MURDERER'S SUICIDE.
ANNA KLAUS Is SHOT AND KILLED BY
OTTO KAYSRR.
he Was Married MaH-Unitr a. Assumed E,r,
he IS Her Lvsr-Hs Attempts to XII
His Wife and then Cuts Hs
Own Ihrai.

PHILADELPHIA, February 3.-shcr.lv
before II O'Clock last night a girl suis..
quently identified as Anna Klaus, aged 10
years, who lived at 1887 North Second
street, was found in sn unconscious con.
dition on the pavement oa Hope street
between Montgomery svenue end Berts
street, with pistol shot wound over hcr
left eye. Soon afterwsrd the young wo.
man was sent 10 st. Mary's hospital tat
died before her admission, without gain
ing consciousness. The woman. when
iound, had with her q basket containing
few buns, and this Was the only cline
which the police could work. Tie vo.
mans body was removed to tbep,li,.
station Of that district, and eyer,b,d, vb,
called WAS allowed 10 view the ren,ai,, H.,
the hope of establishing the identity ol tfe
victim. In addition the police vs.f-1
every bakers shop in the district ia The
hope OF discovering to WHO the bans had
been sold.
About o'clock this morning Henry
Klaus, the father Of the unfor,un.t, giri
having become alarmed at his deprbfe-is
prolonged absence, v.si,ei the C.pfr,i
Police Station and furnished iescri-t.,D
OF his miasi1g daughter. This tali,4 ,-itb
the murdered girls appearance. and the
ia'her upon going to tba Eighteenth s,a.
Ton was horrlted TO find that hisd.uehtrr
was corpse at the polcss,stion.
The body, after being fully i9elfGe3
was removed TO the Klaus home ana l,.
tectiyes were assigned TO difc1,e- ih. n.r.
petrator OF the deed. A search r.,,iI.l
several friends Of the dead eifl. ana f-...
them the information was obtain.s t,.t
she had been often seen 10 Tie COMPANY vcf
a conductor on the Ssclnd and Tii.g
Street Railway, who WIS known to tb,
girl and her associates SIS Tom Linn. la.
no such person could be- found. Iron.r.
among Anna's girl fiends. with whom
che WAS employed in o mill In Tie Ken.
sington District, revealed the ideuDf. cd
Linn as Otto Kayser, - years of ags ,,.,
lived with his wife and two childr,u .t
Atkinson and Lehigh avenue. IL ,,a.
also learned that Kay ser. under the nam.
of Linn, bad been secretly payine st.er.
tions to Miss Klaus, "a De had been .o..
hidden by her parents to visit their lou..
lie had presented himself as an unmarried
man.
As kayseT has frequently been seen is
the dead girls company. ttc p.
lice at once suspected th.t
ne was the murderer, aud w-
10 his house TO arrest him. As mo- rca.,.
came to their repeated knocking. tho rm
cera were about to break open the door,
when it was hastily opened, and fh
were metby woman In her right cloth
ing, with blood streaming iiom her fir.
and baby in her erm- She directfitb.
officers to the second story, where. s.reah.
ed on the bed, with o razlr at hissls I..
Kayser, the blood pouring from "a gaa.f
IN his neck. Alfe. kayser was removed fo
the hospital, but Kayser died heior. ID,
ambulance could reach them.
The circumstance
were fully convincing
murderer of Mis- HI
the officers coming TO
a razor and after max
tempt TO kill his wife
he ended his own
weapon.
The absence Of the
he shot Miss Klaus is r, piaiDvu uy ,neIs,,
that when be returned b his home a.iar
the shooting ne YVES iltDabd
and became 80 boistorous th.i
his brother-il-law, who lived with
him vas Obliged 20 send for a policeman.
who took the weapon away from him
The most plausible story Of the afsi- is
thai kayser, under an assumed name. had
been Dg with Nis klaus, and thai she
had discovered the real truth, and. havire
met him while on her way home nom ths
bakers last night, threatened him with
exposure. lie thereupon shot her and
went home, a. already stated. Rather
than submit % arrest he killed himself
lie was a tinsmiih by trade. hn. hes
besn employed rs car conductor i.r soms
time He had been married iour v.sr.
and leaves two chilin aged a1d 3 yesr.
respectively. Miss Klaus was employed
in Kensington mill, and lived with for
parents in the same neighborhood.
Mrs. Kayser's wounds, though danger
ous, are not necessarily fatal.