New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-08
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.
MURDER IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT.
GERMAN BEERsHoP KEEPER SHOOTS HIS

GERMAN BEERsHOP KEEPER SHOOTS HIS
WIFE THROUGH THE RIGHT TEMPLE.
Frederick Kroncke. who keeps beershop at No.
500 Wythe-ave Brooklyn. F.. d.. shot and MORALLY
wounded his wife. Wihelmina. yesterday afternoon
while she nursing infant In the kitchen over
the store. Mrs. Kroncke and her husband had lived
happily during the five years OF their married HE
Besides the girl baby they have another girl four
years old Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Kroncke heard
her baby crying In the over the store lAs she
started TO 90 upstairs Kroncke called her back ana
said she must not GO AS he was going OUT '"c
went upstairs and moment later was followed o'
her husband. Mrs. Kroncke returned to the SAIGON
looking downhearted. Kroncke appeared soon aitcr'
The baby was still crying. and Mrs Kroncke' turning
TO her husband said
aired, / am going up 10 nurse my baby 10 winch
Kroncke replied
81 saw YOU shall not 60 up. You stay here. because
/ am going out. ! want you to tend the bar
Mrs. Kronckc, however. went up. kroncke waited
at the end Of the BAR and then calling boarder VINO
was present TO tend the bar. went after MS VIE
The connie were heard a violent quarrel Tor fuly
five minutes when a pistol shot was heard and
servant hearing IT, ran into the k'cheh' "here one
saw Mrs. Kronckc a rocking chair with buhe'
wound In the right temple, from which the biooo was
flowing I'm streams. The babe lay on the hoor
covered with It's mothers blood Kronckc stood beside
his wife with a smoking .3ocalibrc revolver. COM
pletely covered with blood In his hand Miss Cough
the servant, ran screaming down the STAIRS anu
told what Kroncke had done, and Kelcrman. the
boarder, and Mrs. Drummer, went to the htche' AS
soon as Kronckc saw Mrs. Drummer he said
MY God, Mrs. Drummer. didn't mean to foli my
Wife | didn't know the revolver was loaded ii
she Is going TO die wish could dc l9I he E,.rron
found Policeman Mckinley, Of the Cymer-st: sta,
iion and Mckinley placed Kroncke under arrest anu
10 S1 The o Station Nothing could he learned from
Kroncke account OF his excitement , anu te i"'
In the mean time Mrs. Kroncke had been carried
to a bed and ambulance surgeon summoned n,u
Powder marks around the wound III thc tem
pie showing that Kronckc must have put the pistol
close up TO her head Mrs kroncKe VA. "h hont 10
the Eastern District Hospital. and died ABOUT ~
O'Clock last night.
A DRIVER CHARGED WITH BRUTAL NEGLECT
John Jacobus Of No. JIG wytheave.. Brooklyn
was arraigncd in the Lee Avenue Police Cour' yes
tcrday for neglecting provide for his eight
daughter Katie. The evidence developed shoch
Ing case of cruelty the part of Jacobus' VINO Is
driver for Edward c. smith, the porcelain man.
ufacturcr, of Greenpont. JacobuSs VIE dleo "po"'
three years ago, leaving him TO care for kae ana HIS
aged mother. About six months ago he rented IN"
top floor OF the Wythe-ave house. and then oegah ~
neglect his mother and child Some weeks ago he's'
bors heard of Mrs Jacobuss shocking condition. an"
Informed the Health Department. and word was sem
In the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty TO thii
dren Agent Meyer OF the society went 10 me h1usc
and found a deplorable state of affairs The woman
was scarcely able to speak. She said tha' III Deceh
Der last her son had given her IS cents ana oio her
that the next money he would give her and his child
would be for a rope TO hang themselves with. Agent
Never found little Katie trying to eat piece OF s,as
bread She said she and her grandmother w9ni ,
have starved long but for the kindness OF es iG
bring witnesses to disprove It, Justice t'oetng toia
him he would give him an opportunity 10 40 10; nS
after expressing his opinion OF the mans uru'h's u
iourned the case for TWO DAYS.