The evening world., 1894-10-09
FIERCE FIGHT
ON A ROOF.
Kline Shot His Brother in.
Law in the Back and Him.
self in the Temple.
BOTH WILL PROBABLY DIE.
After the Shooting Kline Rushed
to the Roof and Tried 10
Jump Of.
HE IS SAID TO BE INSANE.
Mortified Neighbors Watch the
Struggle in Mid-Air from
the Street.
HE IS SAID TO BE INSANE.

in the tenement-house at 63 Avenue Il,
and as result two lives will probably.
be sacrificed.
James Kline, a laborer thirty years
old, did the shooting, firing one shot at
his. brother-in-law, Robert Porezo,
which took effect in his back and two
at himself, one of which pierced his
right temple. After the shooting. Kline
ran to the top OF the house and there
was a terrific struggle on the very edge
of the roof before he was overpowered.
Both men were taken to hospital,
where 1t was declared that they would
die.
Kline has lived with his brother-in-
law at the above address for five years.
His father and sister lived next door,
at 81 Avenue B. Young Kline did odd
Jobs when they came his way, but he
was not employed steadily. He was con-
sidered an inoffensive man and was not
a hard drinker.
Porezo got up just before o'clock
this morning and started downstairs to
the grocery store. AS he reached the
landing on the top floor. Kline opened
his door and stepped into the hall with
q big revolver in his hand.
Here, there. he shouted. II want TO
see you for a minute"
Wait until come back" answered
Porezo, as he started down the stairs.
Kline, without a word, fired. and Porezo
fell shot through the back. Then Kline
sprang back into his room, slammed the
door, and two shots were fired in quick
succession.
Mrs Porezo rushed from her room and
assisted her bleeding husband into their
apartments
A number of people in the house who
had heard the shots, hurried to the top
floor. All of them ran into the room
where Porezo lay bleeding on the floor.
AS they crowded around him there was
J a shout from the street. A number of
people who were passing the house on
their way to work had seen blood
stained face looking from window on
the top floor. 1t was Kline. One of the
bullets which he had fired had struck
him in the right temple
A dozen persons made dash for the
door of the house. and in another mo-
ment there was loud tramping of feet
on the stairs.
As Kline heard the noise he left the
window and dashed to the hall. Three
feet from his door there Is frail
little ladder which leads to the roof.
stream of blood on the ladder behind
him.
Up from the street the people piled.
A dozen OF them tried to climb up the
little ladder at one time. The first
who did get up saw a dreadful sight.
Kline was standing on the edge of the
roof looking oyer, into the street; AS
the people rushed up sh Zine turned Tbe6 6 on
3. laughed loudly and threw the revolver
from him down into the street AS he
did SO he ran a tb ,ne roof 81
2 4 Four houses away from where he was
feet lower. Kline jumped to the roof OF
1.-The next house without moments hest
Itation, the crowd following him.
When he got to the corner house, he
gathered himself to ring, off into the
street, but he was seized by Joseph
Spintz Kline graPpled co with mn and
The two men stood on the very edge OF
the, roof. and when they went down to-
gether to the roof, rolling over and over
each other, it looked as though every
minute they would go over the roofs
edge together. Both men We're soon GOV
cred with the blood that flowed from
Twenty persons stood on the roof and
watched the terrific struggle, but they
force them over the roof, and they
would have fallen forty feet to the
L. stones or the street.
Down on the sidewalk half hundred
p rsons watched the combat and held
their breaths.
But the struggle was too fierce to be
long continued. Kline, weak from the
loss of blood was overpowered, and A
dozen men held him and bound his arms
pehind his back with a bit of rope. The
eruggle was over aud the man Sc
cured GaF.ed when Policeman schmidt. of the
ruin nh street station, reached the roof
ana placed Kline under arrest.
lie was Kept the roof until am
I p3uiance arrived from BELLEVUE Hospital.
He was quiet enough until the surgeon
ne struggled, and would base fought
but for the ropes which held his arms,
bidd was found that the second bullet
cured hlm badly. The physician said
there was no hope for his life, however,
eSer ae nad On lost so much blood in his
Porezo had been hit with the bullet
MIN Inc back on the left side. and the
L sEse n was quite sure, The men were
a aHea aSc BELLEVUE Hospital in the same
o tnne words that could not be under
IN The policeman asked him why he
Zone ru done tho shooting, but he only
Mrn and would give no answer
ipim rs. Louise Porezo, the wife of tn,
ceDt for the wild act of Kline. ex
long co nSt ne han become insane from
comnIs inaI ued ldleness OF late he haC
was p nat a good deal that the work
sb hsVe been rich long ago.
puarreI1a i 10, mat Kline had never had an,
Porezo WIZ WIN her husband. but that Mr.
lad sUr had been very good TO him, anC
tSe a supported him the greater part O
At 81 years he had lived with Them.
Come sister, lives. she was found over
. kroths-" WIN grief at the act OF he
ma She said that she believed tina
ne tan mind had been weak 10
her tthhe, FOR a week ago he had sal,
In rs ase there was man after hin
ioot Tos.ver' and that he would hav
buHb1t stter himself Nothing wa
irs OF the matter, however.
! Forezo Is In delicate condition