The sun., 1895-02-07
DEAD BESIDE HIS RIVAL.
MURDER AND SUICIDE IN AN I'M
MIGRANTS BOARDING house.
Tragic cuin,,n.tion In Thi. city OF Story
OF Love and Jealousy that Began Re
yond the Ses-A Husbands Double Crime

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This is the story Of a tragedy of love, jealousy,
murder, and suicide II ended yesterday after.
noon by the killing Of William Becker by Carl
Fesecke, who then killed himself, in an immi-
grants boarding house at 116 Greenwich street.
Carl Fesccke and his wife Bertha were pros
porous small shopkeepers In Hamburg. Four
montbs sgo pertba left Carl. going he knew not
where. He had been jealous OF her-she Is un-
der thirty years of age and comely--and she told
.neir heisnoors tnaI NO trea.eu nc. uauy one
knew family oftho name OF Becker, living In
silesia, and in that family there is q son, Will
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IN MS minu tnat sne nsa sohe W A,norioa WIN -.
That without going to si,e.is to tind out, cannot
~ 49, .S,s ,as az toiis. ~ Carl .na yTliam are
now in the Morgue and Bertha is In Mysteries
and could not, or would not, tell the reporters
anything.
Fesecke, when he had SO made up his mind.
took the steamer for this country. He went to
relatives Oh ms WIG mere anu no inquleu
everywhere he Thought he could obtain clue
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Williain neeAers mo.ner' 'ne. 'no M n"u ,s,,, uc.n
there since she first disappeared, and that Will
liam was there. too. Carl sought his wife in
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From this point on there are two differing
stories After the murder Yesterday afternoon
Police Captain O'Connor sent for Mrs. Fesecke
and questioned her through an n Interpreter; As As
ia oil In tvvn thia. when Teeack a
went to silesis and urged his wife. to return to
him she proposed as a compromise that they
B iiam Becker ~ with % them, and that in this coun-
try the three should live together. They came
day.
Later In the day young German. who speaks
hotel Where the murder and suicide took place,
and he reported that she said the coming Of the
three on the same steamer was an accident;
husband William Becker went there also. but
that Carl Feseck g talked so badly about William
10 America The determination of the Feseckes
to 60 also had nothing to do with Becker's plan.
Any my way. way @ the three did arrive on the Parthia
last Sunday. The Feseckes went to live with
!he Tifs's brother AdoPh Hsack grocer Of
to the Germania Hotel, the little immigrants
boarding house at ll6 Greenwich street near
Cedar On Monday, Mrs. Fesecke. with her
to cali on Becker That was the last time she
saw him; Her husband upbraided her for her
visit to Becker, aud their Jealous Quarrels were
40 violent that Mrs. Henck threatened to order
than out of tho house To settle the matter
Mrs. Fesecke proposed that she and her hus-
band should obtain employment, or go into SER
vice. in different parts of the city, seeing each
other only after their work or business was
through for the day.
1t Is not known what her husband thought of
this proposal. Perhaps he wanted to know IL it
had been suggested by Becker, for yesterday
morning he said he was going out to see the
sights OF tho town. but he went direct from the
Henck's to Beckers boarding house. There he
met Becker In the little combination = iloon and
Office ON the ground floor. and tho two men
talked quietly enough together at a table.
drinking glass two Of beer as they talked.
At 10 O'Clock they went up to Becker's sleeping
room on the fourth floor OF the Germania.
hi. ceiisr had left TIE Mace went to his room to