The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-12
LOVE DRIVES 70 MURDER.
Frank Tiemann Tries to Kill HIS
Sweetheart, Then Shoots Her
BrOther-iD-LaW and Himself,
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY At NEWTOWN.
The Girl Unframed, but Hor Jealous Lover
Liza Dying in tho Town Hall with
Bullet Through His Neck.

Frank Tiemann. Of Winfield L. l., shot
William Clark. of No. AS Bushwick ave-
nue., Brooklyn. at Newtown. l.. l., last
night, and then shot himself in the
mouth. ihnicting a mortal wound The
trouble. it seems. was caused by Tie
mans love for Annie Mccarthy. also Of
Winfield. who Is a sister-in-law of WILL
lam Clark, and to whom Tiemann said he
has been paying attentions for six
years.
The girl has been trying to rid herself
OF Tiemann and last night, about z
| O'clock her brother-in-law and friend
of his, a young man named william
| Wade. of No. 455 Bushwick avenue
Brooklyn. and who works with Clark
in the Bushwick Railroad Station, took
the girl and left Winfield starting for
l'owery Bay Tiemann saw them start,
and when they were at Newtown. stand
| ing on Broadway, at the corner OF
Maurice avenue. waiting for a trolley
car, he came up. He called the girl to
one side and asked her to go with him.
! When she refused he pulled a revolver
and shot at her. She ran away scream
| Ing. and Clark sprang to her assistance.
Tiemann then turned the pistol at him
and fired four shots. all OF which took
effect. one ball entered his chest, one
the side, the third struck him in the
head and the fourth entered his left
hand Mt the wrist and is imbedded in
| the palm.
Tiemann. after firing the four shots,
| ran down Maurice avenue towards Win
| field street about two hundred yards to
"A clump OF bushes, and putting the mug
zle Of the revolver, against his neck.
l N.ttl Had l.s -t.Y ,..I fnIl
When the mer who heard the firing
rea he'd him he lay unconscious, and II
was thought he was dead.
ID Drs' Gom6es and HBrogan soon arrived
fatal. Clarke has sustained a fracture
OF the skull from the bullet which struck
mis- head, and his condition is critical.
The girl. Annie Mccarthy. is about
eighteen years old. and decidedly pretty.
She says Tiemann was insanely Jealous,
and she had given him plainly to under
thing more to do with him. Soon after he
revived, and when he lay on the ground
on Maurice avenue he called for her, ana a
her he wanted to see her.
Father Dauffenbach. of St. Msry's
Roman Catholic Church. arrived about
the Church to Tiemann. who was then
Hall.
The revolver was picked up near the
!
bullet left in IT,, 1t vas a S2.calibrs Of
the girl entered the window of John
Meyers little girl, imbedded itself in the
ceiling. The shots startled the members
of the Dutch Reformed Church in New
meeting. Or. Drogaw was in the church.
and he arrived at the scene Of the shoot
Ing, before, the blue smoke Of the powder
had rolled away. Herman was a,,,, nfte e.
the suicidal saTle 81 shot 'e" at himself.
and carried to the Town Hall. He was
blanket. The bullet had pierced the
oesophagus. and the hemorrhage was
severe. He talked some to the physi.
attesans to i his wound He said that he
did not want to shoot Clark. but that in
the darkness he had mistaken him Tor
Wade. and SO fired at him, He was en-
lions OF Wade to Miss Mccarthy, and
the willingness OF the girl to leave MIN
at home while she went forth with clark
and Wade. Herman said to DIR. Bro
II kept company with her for six
years, and then she shook me-"
girl safely to her home. Clarks wounds
were dressed In Johnson's drug store.
Wade was taken before Justice Conroy'
where he was released on his own recog-
Wade returned to Brooklyn at mid
night. He said to a World reporter that
he and Clark left Brooklyn for Winfield
| at 6 o'clock in the evening. Clarks wife
was stopping there with her mother,
Mrs. Mccarthy, for few weeks. Frank
| Tieman was at the house in Winfield
| when Wade and Clark arrived. It was
proposed that they all go to bowery
Bay. Miss Mccarthy went into the
house to prepare for the trip. They
did not try to evade Tieman. for they
asked him to 20. but he sulked and
refused to do so. Clark, Wade and Miss
Mccarthy walked down to Newtown
expecting to board the trolley there for
Bowery Bay. Arriving there they were
surprised at seeing Tieman approach
them from the opposite side Of the
street. Tieman called Miss MCCARTHY.
but she refused to go to him. Then he
pulled out the revolver and began firing.
Though Clark was shot three times he
was pucky and stood his ground.
Wade said that Tieman, in his ante
norton statement, wanted Clark to be
told that he intended to shoot Wade ana
not him. Tleman as well as Wade, SO
Wade said. had been boarding win Clark