The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-24
MRS. FREIKNECHT SHOT AT.
HRS STBGER VISITS HER IN STATE
or SUPPRESSED EXCITEMENT.

Miss FnnIinA Freiknecht had Made .
Charge of Betrayal AEniHst Mrs. Ste.
gers Son-Both Women Hurry 20 q
Police station to Tell Their Woes.
Mrs Emil SteRer OF Jersey City Heights ffed
two shots on Thursday at Mrs Christ Frel-
knecht. her next door nelghbor. because Mrs.
Freiknechts daughter Paulina had accused
| Alfred Steger. Mrs. steger's son. OF being re-
sponslble for her trouble. Mrs. Steger is tho
wife Of ex- Director SteRer of the Board OF Free
holders OF Hudson county. She is middle
| aged woman Of petite figure. Hcr husband is
| wealthy. Alfred Steeer her son, Is "a years old.
| q ine-ooknE young man, and Is In business
| In this city. lie lived until recently with his
| parents at 30 Manhattan avenue.
| Mrs. Freiknecht, tho woman who was shot
at, lives with her family, consisting OF her hus
band. who is q shoemaker, two grown sons,
ana her daughter Iaulinn. in two.story
house. 2s Manhattan avenue. Paullna is her
youngest child. She was 1G years old on May
4. She looks several years older She is pretty
and has brown hair and light eyes. Tho
Freiknechts are poor and laulinR has at times
been compelled to 70 out 10 service. The two
families have lived side by side for twelve
years. and the children have known each other
all that time. When paullna first won't out TO
work 1t was in her ncighbors house. and she
was not treated exactly as servant. She
she cot tired of working and returned
home. In March year ago it was. again nec-
employed her again. She STAYED with the fam
lily until her trouble became apparent When
her chiId was born. month ago she ACCUSED
young Mr. Steger OF being It's father. Since
then efforts have been made on both sides TO
make al amcnble arrangement OF the DIM
elder MIR. SteGcr and told him that someth hing
would have 10 lie done to aid her financially or
the case would get into the courts.
O scandal worried
Steger. Thursday afternoon she appears to
have been in IA state OF suppressed excitement.
her dress pocket She carried with her pair
OF shears, which she wanted Mr.. Freiknecht 10
together 10 their basement. Mrs. Steger wore
pisek 81 siiS 1ress she was bHreheaded She
rTHes tn tha lie should fix ths a Min t tee
turned and walked to the hall door She lad
mot, n2t said GsILs1 word TO Mrs ErsiknsS6t
When she reached the door she wheeled
around suddenly, and. taking the pistol out
screamed, On, I'm shot and ran into a rear
ss Mrs 81, sogsr Pulled the trigger again
bullet followed Mrs. Freiknecht into the next
room. but did not hit hor Mr.. Fieiknecht
SteRer. when she pointed the pistol mt him. He
stopped She walked out into the yard back
81 she pointed tho pistol at the open window,
n II. TIE direction Of the rear room where Mrs:
frelkne cent was, ana nred again. The bullet
embodied itself In the window cnse.
Mrs, SteCer walked to her homo then got her
hat. and went to the Sixth precinct police sta
ton, two blocks away. She told Detective Nc
Nultv she had shot woman While she was
telling the story Mrs. treiknecht, who had re-
tell her story. The detective. 50 she says told
her to return home, that everything would be
right. she thought Mrs. Steger was under ar
rest, and went home. A little while atterward.
ex-Director SteGer, who had been notified OF
the shooting, cal led Mt the police station with
his daughter and they took Mrs. SteEer home
and then sent her TO this city, where sine is
now staying with friends. She is suffering
from nervous prostration. The police made no
report OF the case and every effort was made to
Keep IT from the public. The facts came out
yesterday.
A SUI, reporter called on Mr.. Steger at his
office. He refused TO say anything ex cept at
his wife was In this city, Mrs. Freiknecht. as
sisted by her husband. her two sons and
Fauina. told the story OF the shooting as given
above. They have engaged lawyer. and they
say they will prosecute the Steger family. A
warrant was sworn out yesterday, 1t is said, for
the arrest OF Mrs Steger.