Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-14
A MOST HORRIBLE TRAGEDY A Woman and Her Child Was
 Murdered THE MURDERER SUICIDES He Had Entced the Woman Away From Home and Killed Her to Obtain Her
 Property

Laredo, Tex, Nov. 13-Last Monday evening a tall, fine looking man, accom- panied by woman, registered at the Ho- tel Hamilton as c. Schuler and family. With them was pretty girl, years old- Yesterday at 3Ao'clock the man hired buggy and took the woman and girl to the depot, despite the indictment weather. At o'clock he returned the buggy and ate supper at Hotel Hamilton, retiring afterwards. Last night A. Shepherd dis covered two bodies lying in the brush in Chaeon bottom, just beyond a small res ervoir, two and half miles from Central City. He noticed the prints of the buggy wheels and trails, where the bodies We're dragged along the road He notified Re- corced Pierce what he had seen Officers proceeded at once to the place and se-s cured the bodies of the woman and child. They were identified as the persons who had gone riding with Schuler yesterday evening. While the news of the find was flying over the city another chapter in this horrible affair was enacted at the Hotel Hamilton. At 6 o'clock this morn- ing the proprietor of the hotel knocked at Schulers room and asked him where his family were. He replied that he had taken them last evening to Aztec, where they had taken the limited train for Mex ico
 lIlHh you dlc SehAu bhS proprietor, your family is not in Mex ico.''
 Schuler shut the door and drawing a revolver shot himself through the heart. On his person was found cigar case with over $500 in greenbacks. The cigar case contained the name of Sam Kuntz. It is believed his brother is in Fort Worth and he was at once notified of the trag- edy. Schuler stated during his stay here that he had been master mechanic for railroad. Schuler spent most of his time in saloons, and his actions indicated that he was either unbalanced or meditating the horrible murders which he commit ted yesterday
 In the murdered woman's trunk was found marriage license bearing the names of Catherine Mem and Theo Mem. letter was found In the wom- ans effects dated October A. from G. B. Brown, a Fort Worth, Tex, merchant, addressed to Mrs. Caroline Mem, Dallas, Tex, the merchant requesting her to send a check for $25. From this it Is inferred the woman had a bank account. She stated that MT. Christon, her son, kept hotel at Fort Worth. and it Is believed Kuntz stopped at this hote1 found out the woman had money, enticed her here to murder her and get her money. A tel egram was received here today from Fort Worth stating that Mrs. Menns son had left that city to come here.
 The wounds on the childs body and the position in which 1t was found indicated that she died a lingering death. She was cut slightly on the left knee, as though she had fallen on sharp stone. and the left side of her head was cut as though by a glanceing blow of club. There was another wound on the top of her head, but death had come from knife wound in the neck, severing the juglar vein and carotid arteries. The body, was found on it's back, the little arms raised as though to ward off the murderer's blow.
 Mrs. Mem, who was rather stout and about 40 years old, was shot in the heart and probably struck a crushing blow on the head, breaking the skull The fiend. in jack the ripper style, then used his knife. stabbing his victim once on the front side of the shoulder, the blow rang ing downward; once in the center of the left breast, twice in the stomach, once in the abdomen and once in the right side, between the sixth and seventh ribs.
 The blood-stained murderer then prob ably killed the child to make sure no liv- ing witness of his deed could be found. His victims were taken to Fowler's morgue, which was surrounded by large crowd of enraged citizens. When the news of the finding of the bodies in the gullies was made known City Marshal Bartholemau and the night policeman soon discovered the clue which led to the lIdSSuy. AS SOOu us tiiCy icdtDeu ludt the stranger at the hotel had engaged the buggy they went to the hotel and ordered him awakened. In the meantime mounted officers were searching the scene of the murder for evidence, finding a woman's bloody handkerchief and der by hat, which was recognized as one Kuntz wore yesterday.
 On his return to his room Kuntz was bareheaded. He washed his bloody cuffs, but the marks are still on them. An in- surance policy for $3000 in his own favor, a deed of trust executed by Catherine Mem on property in east St. Louis. pho- tograph of Kuntz and pictures of a hand some young woman and a child of were found in Kuntzs trunk, besides the let ter addressed to William KuntZ, Kansas City
 Kuntz was once chief engineer of the Heimes' brewery. Kansas City. His name Is believed to be either William or Samuel Kuntz. The cigar case bore the name Samuel" but the letters were ad- dressed to William Kuntz.
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