St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-09

street station and greeted the reporter
with a smile. He is an intelligent-lOOk-
ing man. with high forehead and hair
well brushed back, also wearing black
mustache. he stated that he was an
Austrian and was thirty-eight years
old. He came to America in
1873. He denied the truth of the state
ment made by mis- wife that she had
built the house. he had built it out OF
his own earnings, while she purchased
the lot. In speaking of the statements
made by his wife, he said:
at is false, if she says that we always
lived unhapily. The trouble only arose
from the time when Weiser entered the
house. 1 am good Catholic
and a moral man, and worship
my children. Weisser has been living
in the house, and never paid any money
for it or for boarding his children. He
was very attentive to my wife, and
told him many times to leave the house.
Ny wife said he should not go, and
things were so very unpleasant that two
months ago l left the house and
went to live with my brother.
The reason l left was that my wife said
| was no longer her husband. and that
l had better have my bed made in the
barn with the chickens. Soon after l
left. Gust Erickson, who boarded in
the house, told me that Weisser was
occupying the same room
with My Wife.
81 went to the house at IN the morn
ing on June 20, the time when my wife
says l got in through the cellar. l
found Weisser undressed in my wife's
bedroom, and she was lying on the bed.
l dragged him out Of the room and
knocked him down with a chair,
and told him that unless he
left the house there would be
trouble. l said nothing to my
wife and did not threaten to kill her. for
l would not harm a woman. After that
| heard that Weisser had threatened 20
shoot me, and, as my wife had my re-
volyer, l bought another one, which L
always carried. l went frequently to
my house to see my little girls,
and also try to live with my
wife again if Weisser left
the house, but my wife would always
say that he should stay. This evening
l was approaching the house when one
Of my little girls ran up to me. kissed
her and told her to ask her mother if
room, as I wanted to take a
bath. l entered the kitchen and saw
Weisser taking liberties with my wife.
l told him to let my wife alone and
leave the house at once. He got up and
stepped backward. and as he did so he
said, You son OF -, get out Of here
At the same time he made a motion
with his right hand as if to draw re-
volYer
From His Hip Pocket.
81 thought he intended to shoot me,
and l pulled my revolver and fired,
thinking | would hit him in the leg.
When l shot at him he had backed up
to the kitchen stairs, aud was standing
On the lower steps. He ran up stairs.
and my wife and Mrs. Cook
struggled with me to get the reyol-
yer. l would not give 1t up, for l knew
that if my wife had got it she would
have shot at me. l went to the police
station to give myself up, and did not
learn till later that Weisser was dead.
/ did not intend to kill him, but now
that he is dead | think he is in the best
place. l feel sorry for his poor little
girls. This man Weisser has ruined
my home, and but for him l should never
have had any trouble with my wife.
am not afraid at all of the result Of this
affair, for know shall be acquitted in
court"
The body of Weisser was removed by
order Of Coroner Quinn to the estab-
liShment of Gross d Dohm, West Third
street, where an inquest will be held to-
morrow.