New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-31
WHY DID HE SHOOT HIS FRIEND?
THERE WAS APPARENTLY NO REASON FOR THIS
MANS ACT-HE AND HIS VICTIM HAD
BEEN FRIENDLY TO WITHIN
MINUTE OF TIE SHOOTING.


Frederick Schneider jantor Of the hve-story
tenement-house No. 40 West Six,eenth-st was
removed from his rooms the ground floor in the
building to the New-York Hospital at $3.50 p. m.
yesterday, with four bullet holes in him. Albert
Arndt 2 personal friend OF Schneider, who lives
In the same building arrested by Policeman
Churchill, charged with doing the shooting five
minutes after 1t occurred. lie was locked up In the
West Twentieth-st station, where ne refused 10
make a statement.
II IL difficult to assign a motive for the deed.
Tenants in the house say the only motive they can
ascrioe Is a crazy notion OF Arndt that schneider
was seeking his place laborer in the Street
Cleaning Department Mrs. Schneider says her nus
band had A great deal OF trouble during the last
six months with quarre.some tenants in the house
He had charge OF No. AIS as well as No. APO. and
Mrs Schneider declared that she was sure Arndt
had been egged by either the Max or Johnson
families the former OF whom Schneider elected
from No. 420 a few weeks ago. 70 shoot her nus
husband.
There was no quarrel between the two men. ana
they had BEEN up to yesterday. the best Of friends
IN his ante-mortem statement a, the hospital last
night Schneider said he had no idea why Arndt
fred AT him He had had much trouble during
the last six months that he had decided TO go 10
san Francisco To this end he had made all ar
rangements 20 leave New-York with his wife ana
two small children tomorrow.
Mr Schneider and his Wife were enSaReu III pd'h
ing their trunks Yesterday afternoon when Arndt
entered their rooms He spent last Sunday evening
with the Schneider family and gave Mr.. Schneider
a steamer chair parting gift Wnen ne VIsl,fri
he S hnelders Yesterday afternoon, ne ana Nj
Schneider chattel pleasantly for little whlle, ana
fhen Mr. Schneider excused himself. as he desired
70 20 20 a locksmth to have lock repaired when
he mad lust removed from A trunk. The Two men
we're In the kitchen and Schneider passed out IN
front Of Arndt. gong through oedroonl - retcn
IN. hallway. Arnd, followed 10 the bedroom no)r
and then when within twelve feet OF ms Vctlm.
suddenly drew .SS-caHber revolver ana put, iouI
right breast and probably pierced the luns
Schneider wrenched open the hall ioor ana s'nB-
gered through he long hallway TO me street. Hls
cries Of Murder! I'm shot quickly aroused tDe
H.. s.ghborhooa and IN les than two minutes fu!ly
1000 people were around the prostrate form OF
After the shooting Arnlt placed the reVONer IN III
his pocket and c)olly followed MS yictlin 70 me
street whore he stood leaning against the nal door
wav Policeman Churchill came up ana MIS-
Schneider point.d out Arndt as her husbands as
sa.ant The policeman quickly handcuned tne rld
and ;aen called an ambulance and sent Schneider
70 the hospital Arndt lived entirely alone IN Two
small rooms the FIRST floor OF the tenement
- the hospital It was sah that Schneider :
wounds were extremely serious, ana tnat ne 2l wHa1
probably de An attempt 10 probe Tor the ouiie'S
roth Max and johnson denied last night that
they- had a hand In the shooting OF Schneider' OF
thai they had Influenced Arndt - shoot schneider r
Iohn Max said he understood that Schneder ana
lie declared that Il chiefly through Mrs yohn-
sOn's gossip that ne had been dspossessed Johh-
son pronounced Mrs S,hneler's accusation an ao-
surlify.