Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-12
THE SAME OLD-STORY.
Jealousy Once More Leads to a Bloody
Murder and Suicide.
A COUPLE Welded In PlTTSBURG
Five Years Ago the Actors in a Tragedy
in a New York Street.
TWO PISTOL SHOTS SETTLE 1T ALL
ESPECIAL rzIkeRAM TO THE pIspAroH.


NEW YORK, September 11.-Jealousy,
murder and suicide. That is the story, in
short, of the happenings IN Stanton street
tonight Three weeks ago German
woman, about % years old, hired furnished
room OF Mrs. Hamburg, who lives on the
second floor of A Stanton street. Theyoung
woman said she was not married, but that
she had sweetheart who might call to see
her. He was clerk, she said, in grocery
store in Brooklyn. Her name, she said,
was Carrie Lenz.
No one called until last night. She had
Just come home from her work when, at
$780, boy came to her room with a mes
sage.
'A man at the door wants to see you" he
said. She followed the boy to the street
door and met there on the sidewalk man
dressed in suit of tweeds. Andrew
S. Biswanger, of No. 1914 First
avenue, saw her there and overheard
part of the conversation which took place
between her and the man in tweeds. He is
a friend of Oscar Hamburg, Mrs. Hamburg's
son, and he knew the woman by sight. The
man in tweeds was urging the young woman
to go back and live with him. 1t was long
talk and the man got greatly excited. FL
nally the young woman left him and went
down Stanton street to a grocery store. The
man in tweeds turned to Biswanger and con-
fded part of the story to him.
MARRIED IN PITTsBURG.
The young woman, he said. was his wife.
q m va m PIttahnr0
and afterward moved to Brooklyn, where
he lives now. They had child 8 or 4
years old. A while ago. he said, they had
quarreled, and he had left her. Then he
went back and they got along pretty we'll
until three weeks ago. He accused her
then of being unfaithful to him. While he
was talking the woman returned to the
doorway.
81 want you to come back to Brooklyn
with me-" the man cried, turning toward
her.
"If I do," she answered, 81 will take an
officer with me-"
"You will, will your Well, don't care
for your officer, and 1 will show you that
don't" he retorted.
With quick motion he drew q revolver
from his pocket and fired. The woman fell
on the sidewalk, shot through the lungs.
The man pointed the pistol at Biswanger,
but changed his mind, and, clapping it to
his own head, fired and fell beside the
woman dead. The shots brought Police
man Joseph F. Hunter. There was bloody
froth on the lips OF the woman, and she was
still breathing. An ambulance took her
to Governeur Hospital. The policeman
bore the corpse of her assailant
to the station house. The young woman
recovered consciousness for a time in the
hos I'll 49,
condition, which the doctors think will end
only in death. DR.. Curran said she would
probably died before morning.
HER MIND WANDERING.
Her mind began to wander and when they
asked her who shot her she would not tell.
"I'm not shot," she said. Call he did was
to give me a drink" It was then that she
became unconscious again. The man ap-
peared to be about 36 years old.
He was 8 feet inches tall, fair, and
had light hair and blonde mopstache. The
tips of three fingers on his left hand are
missing. In his pockets the police found
two handkerchiefs, a hair brush, bunch of
keys on chain and 81 81 in money. There
were also four pawn tickets there. One
was for ring pawned on August 2, an
other tor a coat, pawned on July &c. and the
third for coat, pawned on July 90, and the
fourth for watch pawned on August 81.
The first two were made out In the name
of Rosenblatt, and the last to Rosenbaum
The only person in the neighborhood remem-
bering having seen the man before the shoot
ing is a Mr.. Bankauf, who keeps the Odd
Fellows Assembly rooms. The man was In
there about o'clock asking for one Schoen-
berg, who belongs to club that meets in
Bankaut's. He was in an excited condi-
tion then. He said Schoenberg wanted to
90 into business with him.