Evening journal., 1892-09-28
L00D DROVE HER WILD
he Sight of 1t Causes a Wo-
man to Kill Three Babes.
EEOF HEoHILDREN WAS HERowN

zen She Goes 20 the Police and Nom
7schalantly Tells Them Where to Find the
Ssodies of Her Innocent Victims-The
#0ther Parents Are Frantic with Grief.
tBoRDENTowN, n. j., Sept. GA devilish
E me was committed here by Mrs. Lena
E hmidt who strangled until they were
ad her son Charles, aged four, and George
3 d Joseph Bowker, aged two and three.
& ildren Of Mr.. and Mrs William Bowker,
Chestnut street The parents were
lay at the Trenton interstate fair when
3 e deed was done
3 The murderess was the first to inform
"a authorities of the occurrence. 50 calm
did she act when telling the story that
Se police hesitated before locking her up,
mixing she was insane and the victim of
lelusion.
Marshal Of Police Jobes was standing in
osswicks street talking to a young man
& ben neatly dressed woman stepped up
him and asked II he were the marshal.
( e was attired entirely in black and wore
'hip straw hat, the somberness of which
s - relieved by bows Of bright colored rib
II. She was perfectly cool. From her
anner the chief supposed that she had
me minor business, such as a complaint
mischievous boys or OF obstreperous
ighbors to make.
His surprise was great when she coolly
< Formed him that she had just murdered
Z rec children and that she desired to give
T rself up. The marshal was incredulous
d laughed at her The woman insisted
at she was murderess, and finally the
arshal took her across the street to the
#ayor's Office and questioned her
Killed Her Own Child First.
3 In broken English she said that her name
rs Lena Brown, that she came from
{ ount Holly TO Bordentown some weeks
o and that she lived at Chestnut street,
& here the marshal would find the corpses
her victims. Her manner impressed the
ief and after ordering her to be placed in
cell in the police station he hurried to the
dress given. She said afterward that her
me was not Brown, but Schmidt.
Upon entering the house no sign Of life
OF human presence could be found, and
e chief passed through the parlor into
e dining room. There on the floor lay
&c bodies of three children Over their
3 ces was an old rag, and upon lifting IL
G chief saw that the woman's story was
ne.
They were lying on their backs, stiff and
Id, and when the cloth which covered
cir faces was removed, black and blue
uises about the neck told the story Of the
me in part--they had been strangled tc
ath. The features were not distorted
.I d it was evident that death had come
Tiftly and painlessly. When the chief ne
rned to the police station the murderess
id that she was very sorry she killed the
ildren, but gave no reason for her crime
le killed her own child first by strangling
and then killed the Bowker boys, the
lest last.
Frantic with Grief.
Mr. and Mrs Bowker arrived home while
e coroner and his physician were there.
policeman stood at either door to pre-
Mt any one entering. The father was
Id with grief and the mother was hys
rical The policemen refused them ad
Hittance. The father became frantic al
is, and rushing TO the front door at
mpted TO break it in. He was prevented
eA~ P1AANNnANAs AAN AucA ctnh upon llE
prch moaning with grief and cursing the
urderess. An undertaker's wagon drove
II presently and the three little bodies
ere removed to Keeler's morgue. The
mily We're then admitted to the house.
Mrs Schmidt's last story as told to the
arshal is that her son fell down stairs and
God ran from his nose
The sight Of the blood made her crazy,
ID as II continued to flow she choked the
lid to death to stop it. She then laid him
the floor and called the eldest Bowker
BY, who was playing in the front room,
nd strangled him. Then she took the
+ hunger child, who was playing in the
lrd, carried him inside and when she
ached the dining room applied her terri.
e fingers.
Lena Schmidt, the murderess, is thirty
ght years Of age, rather good looking and
brunette. She has spent some of her
+ me in the county Jail at Mount Holly.
be became acquainted with young man
pere and they came here together. The
no We're arrested here and committed to
il for disorderly conduct.