St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-04
After Having Murdered Anna
Klaus, a Young Woman
Of Nineteen,
And Made an Attempt to Kill
His Wife and Chill
dren.
Terrible Death of a Massa-
chuSettS Father at His
Sons Hands.

woman at Hope street and Montgomery
avenue, with a bullet wound in her
head, has led to a tragedy which has
few or any equals in recent, years.
Shortly before IL o'clock last night an
unknown woman. subsequently identi-
fed as Anna Klaus, aged nineteen
years, who lived at 1887 North Second
street, was found in an unconscious con-
dition on the pavement OH Hope street
between Montgomery and Berks street,
with pis stol-sh0t wound over her left
eye. Soon after the young woman was
sent to st. Mary's hospital, but. died
before her admission, without regaining
consciousness. The woman, when
found. had with her basket containing
a few buns, and this was the only clue
which the police could work. The
woman's body was removed to tn e
police station of that district, and every
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 bakers shop in
the district in the hope of discovering
to whom the buns had been sold. About
O'Clock this morning Henry Klaus,
the father of the unfortunate girl, hav-
ing become alarmed at his daughters
prolonged absence. visited the central
police station and furnished descrip
ton of the missing girl. This tailed
with the murdered girls appearance.
and the father, upon going to the
Eighteenth district station, was
HORRIFlED
to find that his child was corpse in
that station. The body, after being
fully identified, was removed to the
Klaus home and detectives were as
signed to discover the perpetrator of
the deed. An all-night search revealed
several female friends of the girl and
from them the information was obtained
that she had been keeping company
with conductor on the Second and
Third Streets railway, who was known
to the girl and her associates 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. re-
vealed the identity of "Linn' as Otto
Kayser, twenty-five years of age, who
lived with his wife and two children at
Kensington and Lehigh avenues.
1t was also learned that Kayser.
under the name of Linn, had been Sc
cretly paying attentions to Miss Klaus,as
he had been forbidden by her parents
to visit their house. He had presented
himself as an unmarried man. AS he
had been seen in her company the po-
lice suspected that he was the emur-
derer, and went to his house to arrest
him. AS no replies came to their re-
peated 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 clothing with
blood streaming from her throat and a
baby in her arms. She directed the
officers to the second story, where,
stretched on the bed, with
A RAZOR AT HIS SIDE,
lay Kayser, the blood pouring from
wound in his neck. Mrs. Kayser was
removed to the hospital, but Kayser
died before an ambulance could reach
him. The circumstances surrounding
the case were fully convincing that
Kayser was the murderer of Miss Klaus,
and when he saw the officers coming to
arrest him he seized razor, and, after
making all Intellectual attempt to kill
his wife by cutting her throat,
he ended his own life with the
same weapon. The absence of the re-
volver with which he shot Miss Klaus
is explained by the fact that when he
returned to his home after the shooting
he was intoxicated, and became so
boisterous that his motter-in-law, who
lived with him and his wife. was obliged
to send for policeman, who took the
weapon away from him. The most
plausible story of the affair is that
Kayser had been keeping company with
Miss Klaus under an assumed name,
and that she had discovered the real
truth of the matter: and, having met
him while on her way home from the
bakers last night, threatened him with
exposure. He thereupon shot her and
went home as already stated. Rather
than submit to arrest he killed himself.
He was tinsmith by trade, but has
been employed as car conductor for
some time. He has been married four
years and leaves two children, aged one
and three years respectively. Miss
Klaus is mill hand and lived with her
parents in the same neighborhood.
Mrs. Kayser's wounds, though danger
Gus, are not necessarily fatal.
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