The sun., 1890-01-06
INSANE AND AN ANARCHIST.
LITTLE DOUBT THAT FRANKENS MIND
WAS UNBALANCED.

HIS Little ChId Allowed 20 Live Some TIma
AFTER Ho Had Stranded Hts Nire-Ho
Was Formerly on the Park Police Force.
Anarchist Frnnken OF Brooklyn, who mur-
dered his wife. his 3-year-old child. and hlm-
solf will not be cremated In accordance with
his last request. The entire family will bo
buried to-day in the ordinary manner at the
Lutheran Cemetery. All day yesterday the
bodies OF Franken and tho child were exposed
to public view In tho rooms OF L. Ruoff d Son,
undertakers. in Bushwick avenue. The body
OF tho woman was not shown. She had been
dead somo time longer than her husband or
the child. and after the autopsy her remains
we're enclosed In q sealed coffin.
The brother OF Mrs. Franken, who 10 the only
known relative Of the family in this vicinity.
visited the Coroner and undertaken later on
Saturday evening and claimed theobodles OF
his sister and tho child. He Is Philip KnarinR.
a policeman attached to the Eighth precinct
In this city. He had heard little or nothing
from his sister or her family for several
months He said he had kept aioof from them
because Franken's anarchistic sympathies
raised a barrier between them on account OF
his being policeman. He knew that Frank.
ems mind was more or less unbalanced. and
he had urged!his sister to leave him on account
OF this fact and the mans improvident ways.
earn her living by washing. Whenever
he had seen Franken he had ap.
peared to have plenty Of money. but
Knaring never knew where he got 1t, He
first urged his sister to leave her husband
about fifteen months ago. ana other members
Of her family in California had used their influ- |
ence in the same direction. But there was
genuine affection between the couple. and
nothing would induce Mrs. Franken to con-
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dered away with the child in April last, Mrs.
Franken kept the fact from her brothers.
knowledge fearing that he might take meas
ures to enforce separation.
At first Mr.. KnarinR said he would bury all
three at his own expense in the Lutheran Conn
terry. but he changed his mind and told the au-
thorihes they might do as they pleased with
the mans body. Coroner Lindsay said yester-
ems request for cremation, and the $50 which
hH e tSr bs hhst aSS s Mould Ss pc to D@
There is little doubt that Mrs, Franken was
killed last i, Tuesday evening. while The ehtld
or possibly Friday. Mrs. Donnelly, who occu-
pies the rear Nat. second floor, 1S0 MauieS
street Immediately overlooking the rooms OF
the evening she heard three pistol shots which
Years Day was being celebrated rather early.
No one saw Mrs Franken alive after that time,
closely curtained thereafter. whereas it had
been their custom to leave the shades up.
an death was caused BY straneuiation. Cor.
oner Lindsay says there is no doubt on this
Frank en- did not remain In his rooms all the
time after he had killed his wifo. He was seen
by one or two OF the other tenants Of the house
evening. Nothing unusual in his manner or
appearance was noted. Probably he went out
for food. 1t is not known whether the child
was dead or alive at that time.
There cannot be much ~ Id, doubt Of F5ankSn's
proof Of it. He wandered away in the woods
with his & baby, and slept one one, night NJ in a hay
Be sd demented. I'M Mrs. Franten teia Mrs. .''i Don
nelly only, a few weeks ago that she did not dare
her alone With the child ,ba She
one with her whenever she went out to work.
Her husband. she said. was at one time mems
eomiort con- She % was 81 only My 20 When she
mental pecuiarites began to appear soon after
the birth of their child about three years ago.
revolver and made anarchistic threats in sey:j
eral saloons In his neighborhood. but this could
Was no e Hs Wife
the work. Mrs: Donnslly SAYS she saw him
away away in et jacket with the sleeves out OF iass
below the shoulders. He did aleo all the
the laundried clothes and made himself use-
full In every way In which a man could. He
seemed very fond OF his WIFE and did every-i
thing he could for her comfort. At the same
time he was constantly broodinR and melan:
choy. He dwelt continually upon the relief
ceeded in Injecting his wife with his despon.
dency. On the Sunday before her death the
poor woman talked In most despairinR way
with Mrs. Donnelly. and 1t was evident then
that she was in o deperate franc OF mind. It
is probably true, as assorted In one or two Of
Frank 3 letters that he had succeeded In 50
working upon his wife's mind that she was
willing at times to agree with him In his ideas
about self-destruction.