Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-10
BY HIS LOVES SIDE.
Another Probable Murder, Near the
City Hospital Last Night.
EDWARD KRAMER WAS SHUT DOWN
While Talking to His Sweetheart on the
Hillside Above the P. r. r,
C0L0RED MEN DID THE SHOOTING.

night. Edward Kramer, of Twenty-eighth
street, was shot by an unknown colored man,
on the brow of the hill, near the Municipal
Hospital, in the Thirteenth ward. He was
taken to the Homeopathic Hospital, were
his recovery was pronounced impossible.
Kramer is white man, 25 years of age.
and is employed as a brakemen on the
Allegheny Valley Railroad. Last evening,
wi it'll Miss Kate Sweeney, to whom he was to
have been married, he went up on the hill
alb owe the West Penn Hospital, and near
the Municipal Hospital. They got there
about o'clock and sat down in an open lot,
overlooking the hillside. The Municipal
Hospital is in lot running off Bedford
avenue, a lane going down the side of the
property to the hill. Across the lane from
the hospital fronting on Bedford avenue,
Mr.. Parker lives, and back OF his place is
the open ground in which Kramer and Miss
Sweeney sat. 1t was o'clock when they
got there and they had been on the ground
about an hour, when Miss Sweeney noticed
two colored men under some bushes few
feet away. She told Kramer, who started
to investigate.
BOTH DREW REvoLvERS.
As soon as he spoke the two men ap-
preached, and when Kramer asked why
they were hiding there, with an oath they
drew revolvers. One of them fired and
Kramer fell. The man who shot was not a
hall-dozen feet away, and the bullet entered |
kramer's stomach.
The girl screamed and ran into Mr.. |
Parker's house. The family were in bed, |
but her cries awakened them. Mr.. Parker |
came down, and as soon as he learned of the |
shooting he called up Samuel Dawson, a col |
ored man who was formerly on the police |
force and who lives near by. Dawson sent a |
telephone message from the pesthouse for the |
patrol wagon. In the meantime Mr.. Parker /
and some others who had been aroused went |
on the ground and did not seem to be suffering |
greatly. AS he was quite distance from Bed |
ford avenue and any Of the houses it was de-
cided not to attempt to remove him
until the patrol wagon arrived. When the |
wagon reached the ground Inspector McAleese |
was there, having come out in his buggy. He |
had Kramer sent to the Homeopathic Hos
pital. and, taking Miss Sweeney in his buggy, |
brought her to the Central station. Before |
leaving he started the police officers at work /
looking for the men who did the shooting
FOUND A BEER BOTTLE.
In searching the ground they found an amply |
beer bottle under the bushes where the men
had been. but nothing to indicate who had been
there. The officers worked down to Jones ave-
nue. where a large number of co!ored people
been seen going up the hill about o'clock
The description of them was very vague. All
the colored officers in the city were called off
their beats and put to work on the case.
Kate Sweeney the sweetheart of Kramer, |
was interviewed just after being taken to the
Central station. She said:
Il have known Ed Kramer for over four
months, and we were to be married. l live |
with my parents just below Thirtv-fourth on
Smallman street, and am 70 years old. Ed and
L went up on the hill. and at about 8 o'clock we
how fHa
the city hospitals and sat down a short dis
tance above the boardwalk. We had been
there talking for about an hour. when no.
tfced a movement among some bushes that
were about Is feet away from us, and called
Eds attention to 1t. He got up and walked
over within six feet of the bushes and said:
WHO'S theref Come out till see what you
want
Then two colored men arose from their
knees, and one of them said:
"'What is that your businessT
TWO SHOTS FIRED.
"With that one of the men shot with a revol-
yer, and Ed threw up his hands and fell back
ward. The negro that shot then ran, and the
other negro turned and fired shot and then
he ran, too The second Shot did not hit Ed.
" hen 1 ran to him he said: oh, Katie, am
shot through the heart. Go and get some
tn ing He did not seem to be suffering much,
SO ran to the nearest house and called the
people out of bed. / never saw the two men
before and do not know them. They were both
large men and dressed in rough clothes. think
l could recognize the one who fired the first
shot if saw him again. had not noticed the
men following US, though they might have
been. When the first shot was fired the negro |
was not more than six or eight feet from Mr..
Kramer"
pathic Hospital and the nature of the wound
found to be such that his death was regarded
as matter of a few hours only, Inspector Nc |
Aleese summoned Magistrate Gripp to take the
DIVING mans daOOgitiOn Drs Ramsay and |
Wilson made an examination of the wound
and found that the ball had struck just below
the right nipple, penetrating the lung They
expressed the opinion that recovery was abso-
lutely out of the question. and that he would
not survive the night. Just before Magistrate
Gripp went to his bedside to take his state
ment, he declared to Superintendent Slack that |
he knew that he twas gone up" and was ready
to make a statement.
HIS DYING DEPOSITION.
A few minutes later the magistrate, accom-
panied by Inspector McAleese and Detective
Robinson as witnesses, took the following
statement:
~, Edward Kramer, 20 years old, residing at
present on Jones avenue, Twelfth ward Pitts
burg, believing that am about to die, do, after
being duly sworn solemnly make this state
ment: was sitting on the top of the hill with !
a girl by the name of Katie Sweeney, talking
to her, lying alongside of some bushes. She
bushes they Jumped up. 1 asked them what
they wanted. They gave me no answer. One
Of them pulled out a revolver and let it 60. 1 ,
fell upon my head. 1 was shot. They both
ran and got through hole in the fence. do
not know them. After they got through the
fence a second shot was fired. did not recog-
nize them; do not know what kind of clothes
they had ont was dark. The shooting oc.
Cured between and 10 o'olock-pretty near 10
o'cIock edward KRAMER"
Kramer is q we'll known young man of the
Twelfth ward, where his family has lived for
MANY years. HIS father, Edward Kramer Sr,,
IS employed on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
About l:30 O'Clock this morning, James john
,ton H. Burke William Freeman and Bridget /
O'Donnell were arrested on suspicion of being
I'D mpIicated IN the murder and were lodged in ]
,he Eleventh ward station. All are colored.
THINGS NEW IN THE WORLD.