Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-02-27
souHWH4r or a SENSATION.
A Marriage fn Bnrfai0 Thns Recalls
n Murder tn Wilmington.

n Murder tn Wilmington.
A Buffalo, N. X, paper Of recent date
announoes that Fred Ehle and MIS- Kate
Koeder, we're ,nerrihd In that city, at
police stetion No. 2, Friday night wscs.
The circumstance Ia ai local interest In
that II recalls q murder shat way eou-
mitted in this city, tho bride hsing ihs
widow of Gottielh Koeder, who wHA shot
and killed Rt the Excelsior brewery, Gu
the niRbt ot November 27th, 1887. by
aeo-Re Gtafism. Tho murderer " now
IN New Castle Jail, ssr7inC ont a s.rtoEoS
OF Ave years sos mausf,ushte-, tbst hsing
the grade Of orims OF yhicia bo ,zad ooD-
viotsd. Ehs, shs bridegroom, Ia
MOROCCO shaver. snd for soma ttrDo
worked st too establishment: Of phS.ise
Baird, in thie cikJ. Hs bsos,pe ns1usto.st
with Mis-. Rosder afte. sho srNssGS, snS
thsit sc11siutSncs aeoe progrslsed ~ en-
h.tiMkoy, .as result OF rissil Wss .hat
Mf,. 1ne5sS couab. the all o: the .ss' 20
sun,rt. Ehle 20 nasrP Lar. The outoenas
~As tha w,ddins csrenony In the Buffalo
police stasioa Friday nigh. week.
To which story the Ss'ssA iSsssae edtsz:
HAbout two years ago sas huseanc cf
Mrs. Koeder. then employed at sha hxssi-
sior brewery hero, was shot by onn
GeorEe Graham, who IL stiE IN Ssw
Oastle ;nii for the deed. Breii Enls, o.
thet time tanner Ia Charles Bssyd'E mo-
yocco factory, interested himself III bs-
half Of the widow and became intimate
with her. As ipo passed. Mira. Roedes
became pressing IN her oemsud that Ehie
should redeem his plodge and marry her.
Ehle put her off and one day was found
to have disappeared whittier has until
lately been secret to the betrayed
widow--a secret which came to light in
the following manner:
"Carl Specht, the former proprietor of
the Excelsior brewery, conducted. hs is
we'll known, an unfortunate business.
He got over head and cara in debt and
about three years ago he abacouded.
Since then he has beon back and forth
several times, relating to hia creditors ell
possible yarns, az, for example, that he
was in the employ of the government IS
q detective for iunting down and arrest
ing smoonshiners' in tho south. In the
meantime, under the name of Charles
Spade, he started brewery in Dushore,
Sullivan county, Ps. Although he had
taken his own wife with him, Speoht in
vited q Mrs. Kern OF Wilmington, who
had Beparsted from her husband, To
Dushore, and there he lived 10 months,
dividing his affections between hia wife
and Mrs. Kern. The brewery, however,
did not prosper, and Speoht alias Spade
resolved to move on and leave boih
women behind. After many wandeEingt
he reached Elmira, N. X, whore ho was
arrested, but succeeded in getting nwRy
from Jail and went to Buffalo. His wife
had followed his trail to Elmifa, but
there losing ali track OF him she returned
to Wilmington. Mrs. Kern did the same
Sin Buffalo Speeht, alias Spade. took
the name OF CARL Fischer, started Weiss
beer brewery and resided at No. 13s
Exchange street. II was not long before
naturally on the quiet.--he got his
dearly loved Mrs. Kern to come thither
and coon thereafter, her Blster AMI
mother. With thess women Specht livet
in Buffalo, whilo his true wife in Viii
mington knew nothing OF tho matter
But nothing ia SO carefully hidden "a tC
be safe from discovery. Mrs. Kern is th
sister OF Fred Ehle, and tho latter, know
ing his sister to be Ia Buffalo, mede hi
way thither when he loft Wilmington t,
avoid the {ulhllment OF his pledges Ii
Mrs. Koeder.
"Thbn it happened that anouymou
letters began to reach Mrs. specht, whicl
Mrs. Kern had written to her mother il
Wilmington AMI in which Mrs. Speech
wes badly assailed and traduoed. Whei
Mrs. Ehte soon thereafter also disap
paaied, an envelope with tho Duffal
postmark was found in her absndonet
dwelling. Mrs. Koeder secured this en-
velopo and came thereby upon the tracl
Of her fsithlssB Fred, and Mrs. Spesh
also, finding the sddrers on the envelop
to correspond with the writing in th
Anonymous letters, came to the copolu
sion that shs would 5nd her husband am
Mrs. Kern in Buffalo. 30 that Mira
Koedar set out Cor Buffalo on ThurBda,
of last week and Mrs. Speoht on the :ol
lowing day, provided with warrants 0
arrest, and found on their arriysl thor
that their suspioions were correct. Ehl
md speeht were arrested, Sp0cht, hoW
evor, was TelssSsd on bail, whilo Ehl
found it most prudent to comply O
speedily as possible with the demands G
MTs. Keeder."