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NEW YORK.
five dollars, which he went away without
demanding.

five dollars, which he went away without
demanding.
HAD LOTS OF GIRLS
At his boarding house Mrs. Schantz said
that Altenberger had lots of girls and
pictures of them, but that they were girls
who nearly all lived in Oneida. When he
left her house Saturday night he wore a
spring suit and a slate colored oyercoat.
Mary Kraft, a half sister of Altenberger
and who lives at No. TT Lawrence street
with Mrs. George Steger, said that she and
Altenberger came TO this country from Eu-
rope last August. She lived in Oneida until
week ago, when she made her honie at
Rome. Her mother was twice married. her
first husband being Kraft and the second
an Altenberger Philip Kraft of Oneida
| is an uncle of Altenberger. She says that
| Altenberger has no sister in Paterson as has
been stated.
On Friday night Altenberger told Mary
| Kraft that he was going away on Saturday.
| She asked him where be was going and he
replied that he was going to the same place
he went to last Easter. but where that was
Mary doessnot know.
SPEAK WELL OF KATIE.
In Rome the people speak well of Katie
Rupp Miss Mary Dunton, q pastry cook in
Stanwix Hall, said that she knew Miss Rupp
very well. that she was thirty two years old
and was born in Germany. She came to
this country ten years ago. but has no
relatives in America She was en-
ployed fer several years in the Rome Hos
pital, but three years ago she went to
Chicago. Last summer she returned to
Rome and secured a position as chamber
maid at Stanwix Hall. Miss Rupp met Al
| tenberger some months ago and she fell
deeply in love with him. His will was hers,
and when he wanted money he borrowed 1t
from Katie. He secured 500 from her in
this manner Last week she drew nearly $500
.tf-o ,lasa f~>1l
that she was about to be married to Alton
| berger, She said the ceremony would prob
ably take place in Utica or New York city.
She intended to leave this arrangement to
her lover. After they were married, Kate
said they would live in Pennsylvania. She
also told Mrs. Dunston that she had an
errand to do In Utica and that
she would go to that city and meet Alien
berger there. Mrs Dunston says that the
reputation Of Miss Rupp was excellent and
that she was quite good looking, and had a
light complexion and hair
PARALLEL TO THE NINA MULLER CASE.
The attempted assassination of Katie Rupp
by her sweetheart is a parallel case to the
Nina Muller case. On May 3, 1881, Martin
Kaukowski. who was engaged to be married
to Philo1nina Muller enticed her as Miss
Rupp was enticed to Weehawken Heights
and there he bFutally killed her by crushing
her head with stone. He was hanged for
1 Ul6 cIlIu6.
AItenbergerss Trunk opened.
ROME, N. Y, May Is, 1894. -Bernhardt
Altenberger, who shot Katie Rupp near
Jersey City, leftat his boarding house in
this city trunk, which has been opened
Among the contents were a number Of letters
to Altenberger from young women, all
written in German also a partly emptied
box Of 32-calibre cartridges. His landiady,
Mrs Schantz, said Altenberger owned a
revolver which he always carried when he
went out Of town. Among the letters found
| In AItenbergeT's trunk were several
| from Miss Christine Vetter of No. 1l41
| Chestnut street, Elizabeth, N. j. From
| the contents of these letters i would
appear that Altenberger and Miss Vetter
| were engaged to be married. Miss Mary
Kraft, a haif-sister of Altenberger, lives
| here Altenberger had told various people
that he had a sister in Paterson,
| but Miss Kraft says this is untrue,
and that she and two uncles in Oneida are
| the only relatives Altenberger has IN this
country. She says that she and Alten-
berger came to America together last August,
and that he then became acquainted
with Miss Vetter, who crossed the
ocean on the same ship. Developments in
dicate that Altenberger cared nothing for
Miss supp, and only went with her in order
to secure her money and marry his sweet
hoo ri ~, If1i7a both