The evening world., 1894-05-26
BROOKLYN NEWS.
DENY he IS AN ANARCHIST.
Brenner's Relatives and Friends
Say He Was Only Rsvengeful.
The Would BE Murderer and Suicide
May Recover from His Wound.

Adolph Bremen, who tried to kill the
family of his former partner, William
Wegerle, at the latter's home. 81
Blocker street, Williamsburg. last
night, and then attempted to commit
suicide, is under close guard at st.
GATHERINGS Hospital, on Bushwick ave-
nue.. Two policemen are stationed be-
side his cot in the ambulance room.
He Is kept under constant surveillance,
as the police believe that he is an
Anarchist OF the most pronounced
and virulent type.
His mother, Mrs. Yaeger, with whom
he lived at ISL Flushing avenue, Will
iamsburg, II everybody else in that
house and in the neighborhood, scout
the dea of his being an Anarchist.
He was %peaceable, sober, industrious
and thrifty" said Brenrer's sister-in-
law, Mrs. Herman Bremen, land he
never associated with any Anarchists
In his life. But he was revengeful." she
added. and believed that Wegerle had
robbed him of his $500, the savings of n
lifetime"
Wegerle and Bremen had been in
partnership in the Progress Novelty
Company at 81 and % Centre street, this
city. The business was begun in Janu-
airy last and wound up Its affairs in Feb
ruary; Since then Bremen had fire.
the money he had invested.
Last night he went to the Wegerle
nome, n once more, in the presence
'Wegerle told him that 1t had been spent
In the course of business, and thai he,
too. had suffered loss.
Then IN ge, qua this way!'' ex-
ClA ilnn6 Rrpnnpf 1rn Nyinu "a rntrnlrar
and firing first at Wegerle and then in
turn at the other members of the fam
n.y. Weserle was grazed on the shoulder
They ran pell-mell into the street.
Policeman Martin, of the Cedar. street
station, heard the shots and hurried
on the floor unconscious with two bull
let wounds in his check from which
blood was flowing. An ambulance took
Bremen to the hospital.
In his pockets were found a rudely
constructed dynamite cartridge and a
letter, to his mother and one to his
sweetheart, Miss Pauline Zirker, of 5S7
Flushing avenue.
In these letters he begs forgiveness for
the deed he was about to commit, and
requests that the dynamite in his room
be thrown into the river.
Last night the police searched Mrs
faeger's apartments, and in a trunk in
her sons room they found aten-pound
package of dynamite. They took IL to
the Cedar street station-hous where IL
was Immersed in water.
rms large quantity Of the explosive,
which was sufficient to blow up a whole
by Bremen fo~ the blowing up of the
Wegerie family. He admitted this to
Defective Miller this morning.
Zirker; On their return home Mrs. Yae-
g ger t sba an an Evening World. reporter
tai authorities that her son would re-
cover.
But the disgrace, the disgrace!" she
groaned, covering her eyes with her
Miss zlrker, who is a very handsome
girl of about eighteen, said that her ar
lection for Bremen remained unchanged.
years" She said, II shall wait for him,
because l know he is n good man and
was merely, crazed by the belief that
Wegerle had robbed him."
Z. ). Goldman, a manufacturer of sew
ing-machine fittings. has a shop imme-
diately adjoining the room which was
occupied by Drummer and Wegerle.
To an - Evening World' reporter Mr..
Goldman said:
The whole business venture OF these
men seemed to me to be a blind for
some green-goods game. Beyond n few
sample fountain-pens and cigar-holders
there was absolutely no stock in the
place, Neither did they advertise.
1T is certainly strange that what was
put irto the place should nave cost $500,
as claimed by Wegerle.'
Wegerle says that out of $500 he re-
turned Sl23 and half the stock to Bren-
ner.
Bremen at one time had a cigar store
at 6I Flushing avenue. Williamsburg.
He then became a conductor on the
Flushing avenue line and retained this
position until he went into partnership
with Wegerle.
He belonged 20 no society except a
conductors union
He was in Chicago last year during
the Exposition. lie had never been
there before.
Police Supt. Campbell. of Brooklyn,
this afternoon said that he had re-
ceived 40 Information tina Bremen
was one of the men who figured in the
Haymarket riots in Chicago.
w are investigating his record,
however" said the Superintendent, and
VIII soon learn more concerning his
anteCedentS.'