New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-24
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YOUNG WOMAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE AT THE
DOOR OF C. +. WINKEMEIERS HOUSE.
IN BROOKLYN

A YOUNG WOMAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE AT THE
DOOR OF C. F. wINKEMEIERs HOUSE.
IN BROOKLYN
woman named Minnie Arnett. twenty-five years
old last night attempted to commit suicide By
shooting herself In the vestbule OF the house OF G.
F. Winkemeier. wealthy candy manufacturer,
who lives at No. 70 Eighth-ave.. Brooklyn. and
whose place OF business Is at No. 54I Grand-st..
Williamsburg Abou, $50 o'clock yesterday after
noon Miss Arnett went TO the livery stable OF h. H.
Wheeler. at South Eighth and Berry SITS. and hired
q coupe On getting into II she told tho driver.
Alexander Noodle. to drive her TO Winkemeers
house. On arriving at the house Noodle saw the
woman get out OF the carriage with pistol In her
hand and go up to the vesbule OF the house. Pres
emily a. shot was heard. A private detective on the
corner going to the vestibule Miss Arnett
stretched the floor and bleeding from bullet
wound in her right breast. BY her side was a .a2-
cabre Smith & Wesson revolver. She said some
thing about making an affidavit. but the wound in
her breast was bleeding profusely. and as soon as
the detective could ask policeman 10 call an
ambulance one was called. and she was taken to
the Seney Hospital. where last night IL was said
that she in a serious but not necessarily fatal
condition.
In the pocket OF her dress found about s34. a
few keys and a letter addressed to Winkemeier,
which explains the causes leading TO the attempt at
suicide, and Is In part as follows:
Dearest Fred: have called 10 see you number
of times. but you would not see me. | only asked
a favor OF you. 10 give me so, but you would not.
You have always done what your friends wanted
Won TO- Chris / have been woman OF the world,
but have not been a bad one I've been honest all
my life
The letter then continues:
| cannot 40 back my former acquantances
I will not go back to the life led love you.
and you only | have asked II you VIII bury me;
moi let me say more. | will remain. YOU al
WAYS called me- your dear beloved MINNIE.
r. S-If this letter Is found on me tell Mr.. Sofa.
Undo the wrong YOU have done to Mrs. G. f. Winke-
meier II you want more go 10 the registered mail
department and get letter addressed to Mrs.
Winkemeier. No. 2l09 Marylandave
The woman. Friday night. had waited at the
basement door OF the house from to 10 o'clock.
The detective VINO found the wounded woman.
would not say by whom he was employed. but he
evidently was watching in the interest OF Winke-
meier his wife.
Christian T. Winkemeers domestic affairs were
brought prominently before the public last winter
when he was plaintiff in n suit for divorce against
his wife, Maude, statutory grounds. He pre-
scented a weak case and the jury gave Mrs Wlnke-
meier a verdict and the custody Of their child.
one OF the husbands charges was that Mrs. Winke-
meier held compromising conversations over the
telephone In his house with some outside lover.
amusing. Winkemeier Is about forty-four years
old The wife. from whom he tried to get a
divorce. Is about twenty-five. Winkemeier lives In
a handsome house. stones throw from Judge
Gaynor. ex Senator Mccarty and the Montauk
Club.