The sun., 1893-06-26
MRS.SPECHER'S DESPERATION
CAST OFF Ri HER HUSBiND AND
DESERTED BY HER LoHER.

| She Was soon TO Bscome n Mother, and
When Her Lover ueiuscd to Listen to
| Her mud Struck Her She shot Him.
Unless the doctors at tho Brooklyn Homuo-
| rnthc Hospital arc mistaken in their diagno-
| sis OF tho condition Of Alexander hirschner
Mrs. Kate Specher. his mistress. who shot him
on Saturday evening. will probably have to
answer to u charge OF homicide when nr-
ragncd in the Myrtle Avenue Police Court to-
day. 1t was said at the hospital last night
that the bullet from Mrs. Specher's pistol was
lodged somewhere In Kirschncrs intestines.
and that all efforts to find It had been unnrail-
ing. There Is no chance OF the mans recovery.
and yesterday afternoon the doctor who had
the case thought that tho patient could not
live twentyfour hours.
Mrs. Specher was arraigned in the Myrtle
Avenue Police Court yesterday morning and
held without bail for examination to-day On
the previous might she had boen taken to the
bedside of the wounded man In the hospital
for Identification. but he was unconscious. 1t
is from her confession mado to Capt Thomas
Cullen in the Grand avenue station that tho
circumstances OF tho shooting are made
known. This confession was written down
verbatim. In 1t the woman says: Il shot him
because he broke up my homo and was 80
sassy. liked him better than my husband"
Mrs. Spccher. who Is about % years old. mot
her husband in Germany and came with him
to this country to live with him. About 1--WE
yeats after their arrival they were married.
previous to which boy was born to them.
Specher kent tailor shop at 80 Bergen street
and lived with his vito in St Marks avenue.
near Vanderbilt avenue. She met Kirschner.
who Is paper hanger, rs years old.
OF 90S Atlantic avenue. about two years
ago and became SO infatuated with him that
she gave him all tho money she could get from
her husband. Not until four weeks ago did
Specher get positive proof OF his wifes infdel-
ity Then he left the house. telling her she
must look out for herself. Sho went to live at
497 Myrtle avenue. where the young paper
hanger still continued his visits. Then they
quarrelled because she did not give him as
much money as ho wanted, and his visits grew
On Saturday evening she dressed and went
Kirschner; knowing that no would DO about
avenues, she went to the corner and waited for
him. While waiting there kirschner's sister
she laughed and spit at me when she went
BY" Mrs. specher said to Capt. Cullen. Then
came Kirschner. After begging him to listen
desperate. seized hold Of, him and demanded |
volyer. fred, and missed him. He rushed at her
sut Hleu aRalu, lHe knOC making BllGnC |
wound in her own left hand. for he struck the |
weapon AS she pulled the trigger The third |
shot went wild. but the fourth struck him in |
the right side, He walked over to a fence and |
sat down. she following and taking his head in |
her arms She then tried to shoot herself. she |
gays. but the artridge would not explode. |
Her arrest followed. This 10 In substance tho |
story she told to Capt. Cullen. She added that
kirschner was q consumptive.
Coroner J. A. Kene took Krschner's ante
mortem statement. very unsatisfactory one.
yesterday morning. the wounded man. who |
was very weak, said:
Mrs Specher often threatened to kill me II
ever left her. She was very jealous. Only O
few days ago she came to my store and said
she would shoot me yet"
He did. not state that Mrs. Specher had shot
him. and questions on this point ellcited no
answers. Detective Reynolds took Mrs. |
Spechor from the ltaymond street jail later in
Although very feeble he was able to Identify
her ms the woman who had shot him, and they
said nothing TO each other.
Mrs; sIecher., after her husband left her.
felt herself driven to desperation from the fact
that she was about to hecoEoa e other. Tho ,
dying man. che says Is the father OF her un-
born child.